Cecil Taylor - Chinampas '1987

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personnel : 

Cecil Taylor - poetry, voice, tympani, bells, small percussion

Chinampas is a true oddity in avant jazz pianist/poet/dancer Cecil Taylors
voluminous catalog. This is a spoken word record of Taylor reciting his poetry
while accompanying himself on timpani, bells, and small percussion. To address
what these poems are about is a meaningless endeavor. It would be the same as
trying to explain what his piano playing is about. Its all language; its all
music. In fact, these poems, studio recorded beautifully in the fall of 1987,
tell the story of Taylors approach to making music, creating solid matter from
thin air, and then -- like the true shaman that he is -- transforming it into
sand and blowing it away to make room for something else. Taylors language is
not all private (though some of the sounds executed as words are clearly part of
a highly individualized iconography); many of the words and syntactical
structures he uses are recognizable as Western in shape and origin. But the
manner in which he speaks his lines -- his stutters and slides through syntax -
opens onto what poet Charles Olson called the field of language, an entirely new
history coming out of the lines that extends out as far as the poets breath. And
Taylor is making a new history in his poetics: one that comes from
pre-Babylonian Egypt and extends into the centuries beyond this one, one that
insists in communicating in a language that is only dotted with references to
Western culture and its ideologies as a jumping-off point in both directions
simultaneously. And to hear the moans, groans, giggles, squeaks, and peeps that
come from a master of the trained voice is to hear these sounds -- interspersed
as they are with words and phrases and percussive meanderings -- as part of the
language we speak (even if weve never heard it before). This is an hourlong
record that can not only keep the listeners attention, but can also bring the
listener to restful sleep. It is at turns maddening and soothing, and ultimately
instructive. In Chinampas (an Aztec word that means floating garden), it means
that everything is fluid, everything is interconnected, and language -- if it
extends itself far enough -- has the power to embrace it all. As an artist Mr.
Taylor has gone where few have gone before him, let alone succeeded; this is
what he is used to. But he may have surprised even himself in the sheer
musicality of his mystical universal tome.~Thom Jurek

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