The Painted Desert

Barrett Martin | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 5, 2004)
• Original Release Date: October 5, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fast Horse
• ASIN: B0002ZDW6W
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #390,114 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent jazz+exotic percussion=great CD, January 19, 2008

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pemungkah "Joe McMahon" (California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Painted Desert (Audio CD)

Martin combines an excellent jazz combo with his own unique melodic sense, using world instruments to produce unique timbral experiences. My particular favorites on this CD are _The Diamond Path_, _Favela Song_, and _Afterlife Architecture_.

Martin often combines wildly disparate families of instruments to tremendous effect: orchestral chimes, gamelan gongs, vibraphone, and steel drum, producing amazing beauty, serious funkiness, and just plain fun.

The sidemen get their time in the spotlight, and are all equally excellent. I'm not sure who the baritone sax player is on this CD, but he's mind-blowingly good: try _The Worm_ for some amazingly gutsy playing.