Rhythms And Blues, by Elliott Sharp

Rhythms And Blues

by Elliott Sharp

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1.	Electric Guitar 00:58	buy track
2.	Bass Clarinet 06:38	buy track
3.	Acoustic Guitar 06:31	buy track
4.	Soprano Saxophone 05:10	buy track
5.	Fretless & Prepared Fretless Guitar 07:10	buy track
6.	Tenor Saxophone 04:17	buy track
7.	Bass Clarinet II 05:20	buy track
8.	Fretless Guitar 08:29	buy track
9.	12-String Electric Guitar 05:51	buy track
10.	Soprano 03:13	buy track

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Originally released as a vinyl LP in the spring of 1980, Rhythms And Blues has long been unavailable. The pieces are each named for the instrument on which they're performed and each exemplifies an approach to extended techniques as a function of Sharp's improvisational and compositional strategies. Heard in retrospect, strands of sonic DNA in these pieces may be interpreted as tribute to such musicians as Albert Ayler, Jimi Hendrix, Cecil Taylor, Harry Partch, Derek Bailey, Iannis Xenakis, and Anthony Braxton among others but structurally and developmentally, the music remains Sharpian.

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released November 21, 2021

Composed and performed by Elliott Sharp

Recorded live-to-2-track February 26, 1980 by Art Baron at Warren St. Performance Loft, NYC

All compositions published by zOaR Music - BMI

Photography and design by Andrew Zev Weinstein

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Elliott Sharp New York, New York

Elliott Sharp: composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, author, leads Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics and Terraplane with compositional strategies including fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors as well as new techniques for graphic notation to yield work that catalyzes a synesthetic approach to musicmaking as well as functioning as retinal art. ... more

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