Sanctuary [Import]

Dave Douglas | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 19, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Avant Japan
• ASIN: B0000058W8
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #238,435 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Apparition

2. Three Beasts

3. Swoon

4. The Lethe

5. Dark Wood

6. The Dome

7. Heavenly Messenger

8. Among Frogs

Disc: 2

1. Limbo

2. The Great Cliff

3. The Lantern

4. Mad Dog

5. The Flower

6. Contemplation

7. Coins

8. Among Stars

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Experimental music for people with long attention spans., October 21, 1999

By 

Douglas T Martin (Alpharetta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sanctuary (Audio CD)

A very dense work owing something to Ornette Coleman's "Free Jazz" double quartet. Listening through headphones lets you differentiate between the two groupings - otherwise they tend to blur together. The music is very freeform; sometimes it sounds like everyone is off doing their own thing before a theme develops. What's particularly interesting is the mixing of samplers with the traditional jazz instruments. The cacophony of eight players wailing away is familiar to anyone that listens to experimental jazz, but throwing some sampled drum patterns into the maelstrom and then having the other instruments fall into a groove with said patterns is something new - plus there aren't that many jazz recordings that use prepared pianos (to my knowledge). Listen to the soundbytes of "Three Beasts" or "Mad Dog" for examples of this combination of styles and sounds. Dougie Bowne plays very well; he gets more of a chance to stretch out in this kind of setting than he would in the Lounge Lizards or other groups. Those who only know Yuka Honda through her work with Cibo Matto will be very surprised by how she sounds in this ensemble. All of the musicians are in top form in a very unconventional recording.

Yuka Honda and Anthony Coleman: samplers; Hilliard Greene and Mark Dresser: basses; Dave Douglas and Cuong Vu: trumpets; Chris Speed: clarinet and tenor sax; Dougie Bowne: drums.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A rare misfire for Douglas, January 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Sanctuary (Audio CD)

Though there are some very interesting parts of this recording, there are too many dead spots where nothing substantial seems to be happening. Douglas, always looking for new configuation for his expressions, can't be faulted for trying to recapture the spirit of Coltrane's Ascension in a 90's mode.