Jack DeJohnette - The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers '2001

Tracks list

Tracklist


1	The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers	11:26
2	Cat And Mouse	2:22
3	Entrance Androids	7:24
4	The Garden Of Chew-Man-Chew	4:06
5	Otherworldly Dervishes	8:36
6	Through The Warphole	2:25
7	Storm Clouds And Mist	5:04
8	Cartune Riots	1:21
9	Ode To South Africa	10:18
10	One Tooth Shuffle	1:18
11	After The Rain 7:13

personnel : 

Drums, Percussion, Vocals, Piano, Producer – Jack DeJohnette
Guitar, Banjo – Bill Frisell

This collaboration between drummer, pianist, and composer Jack DeJohnette and
guitarist Bill Frisell, was recorded live at the Earshot Festival in 2001. But
it doesnt end there. The pair, who had only played together once before on Don
Byrons Romance with the Unseen, had a chance to listen to the tapes together and
decided to add some additional production to the tracks. DeJohnette called in
sound engineer Ben Surman, who added additional production: basslines, ambient
sounds, and other electronics and percussion. If you are raising your eyebrows
in doubt, think again. One listen to the title track that opens the album should
convince you otherwise. Here, a simple blues-like figure becomes a riff that the
pair build upon, turn inside out, and make into a labyrinthine journey. Surmans
added basslines root the proceedings deeper into the groove. His ambient and
electronic sounds are far from distracting. They are more painterly, unobtrusive
and yet colorful. Frisell and DeJohnette are such fine listeners and intuitive
players that they anticipate one another without ever going over the line that
makes free improvisation wankery. The art of the duo comes down to one concept
ultimately, and that is true collaboration; musically the pair travel someplace
different from where they began. Surmans added touch is a grounding exercise for
the listener. And its true it might have been a different recording if it had
only been heard as an un-retouched performance. But in a sense, it is. Its here,
mistakes and all, and its far from covered. Its merely colored a bit. The
electronic percussion that leads off Entranced Androids is actually coming from
Frisells guitar. Its seven-and-a-half minutes are a strange and terrible wonder
of musical language pushed to the edge. DeJohnettes rim-shot percussion keeps it
somehow grounded, but hes traveling, too -- Surmans post-production work brings
out the true weirdness of Frisells riffing. There are some truly, outrageously
out moments here, too, in the brief Cat and Mouse, Otherworldly Dervishes, where
Frisell plays a free-music banjo, and the sheer soundscape weirdness that is
Through the Warphole are examples. They seem to be every other track. The edgy
funk on Storm Clouds and Mist, touches on blues, jazz, rock and deep funk.
Frisells response other rhythms being offered him are tough, lean, and fluid.
The dub effects by Surman are tasty. DeJohnette plays piano on Cartune Riots,
and Frisell stays all but hidden until halfway through the cut. DeJohnettes
pianism is lyrical, quirky, and deeply rooted in the lower-middle register. The
duo really cut loose on Ode to South Africa, which has Frisell quoting Dudu
Pukwana, Johnny Dyani, and Abdullah Ibrahim, as DeJohnettes drumming rolls
around in stretched time. Surmans added touch of vocals and regional percussion
instruments makes the cut sing. The set ends with a reading of John Coltranes
After the Rain, with DeJohnette once again on piano. Its balladic structure is
preserved, and the space and silence that enter between the lyric phrases allow
for Frisell and his digital delay to shape, color, and texturize its gorgeous
melody. This is one of those records for the fan who has to have everything, but
that said; it is thoroughly enjoyable on its own merit. Highly recommended.~Thom
Jurek

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