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Recommended by us on 15th January 2010
...according to our Brett on Fri 15 Jan, 2010.
The chance to admire Chris Corsano's skills is always an exciting prospect, one which this duo LP with John Edwards kneels down and offers to us on a velvet cushion. It takes its time to kick in but once it does the chops on show are pretty dazzling and the sounds they're wringing out of the well-worn combination of drums and double bass quite astonishing. I'm particularly liking the fact that the album offers an occasionally grounding in more traditional, almost bebop-style interplay before going off to crazy super freedom land where you've little choice but to sit there agog at what you're hearing, your mind trying desperately to keep up with it all. It's kind of like trying to count bullets from a machine gun or something. It's a fantastic piece of work and the liner notes from Evan Parker are pretty sound also! 'Tsktsking' comes in an attractive screen printed edition of 500 on Dancing Wayang so be quick.TSKTSKING is the first duo album by London-based double bassist John Edwards and US drummer extraordinaire Chris Corsano. The album was recorded at Eastcote Studios, London in December 2008. Limited to 500 copies it comes housed in hand screenprinted wrap-around sleeves. The accompanying insert features exclusive and humerous liner notes written by UK sax pioneer Evan Parker.
Defying the drum and bass’s classic roles as rhythm instruments, Edwards and Corsano’s TSKTSKING is a beautifully melodic album. At times Corsano’s drumset sounds like it’s got strings whilst Edwards’s double bass takes its fair share of scrapes and slaps.
Extended passages explore the most subtle and some unexpected sounds that can be summoned from metal and timber. Equally, possessed progressions and untamed eruptions of energy and power are conjured up. These two musicians prey and pounce on their instruments like it’s their last chance.
Tracklisting:
A1 Razed Then Raised Again
A2 Tsktsking
B1 The Master Without Hammer
B2 To The Nines
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