A hella-OOP double album of avant-garde free jazz by American drummer William Hooker. Hooker throws down quite the gauntlet right off the bat, with an eighteen minute-long opening monolith consisting entirely of his voice and drumming, as he travels back-and-forth with ease from extreme sparsity to utterly unhinged chaos. Throughout the rest of the album, he's joined by other musicians who help him to flesh out the full-tilt insanity.
Track listing:
1. Drum Form
2. Soy: Material / Seven
3. Passages (Anthill)
4. Pieces I & II
5. Above and Beyond
The spirits return
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cacophony FTW. Lovely stuff, thanks spirt.
ReplyDeleteAmazing post. Thank You!
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ReplyDeleteGreat album ! It was reissued by Superior Viaduct in 2019 and it sounds pretty good. Here is a link about this release if others are interested : https://www.discogs.com/fr/release/13839801-William-Hooker--Is-Eternal-Life
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