Shortwave Postcard [Import]

Alex De Grassi | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 4, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Auditorium
• ASIN: B000062WQ2
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #677,324 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #94 in Music > World Music > South & Central America > Bolivia

Track Listings

1. Always Falling

2. Small Talk

3. Map Of The Night

4. False Bottom

5. Heavy Lifting

6. While You Were Sleeping

7. Subway Incident

8. Shortwave Postcard

9. Behind Hte Sun

10. Robot Shiva

11. Demon Crossing

12. Signal Drift

13. Slanted Morning

14. Tin Can Necklace

15. Exposed

16. Bottled Up

17. Some Have Departed

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars De Grassi plays John Cage, July 20, 2004

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John Lasseter "johnfl70" (Fairfield, CT) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Shortwave Postcard (Audio CD)

Whether I like this recording isn't useful for anyone reading this review. Besides, I'm still giving it time to grow on me. So rather than try a useless value judgement, I'll just tell you that if you are a fan of de Grassi's music (as I am), this recording is unlike anything else he's recorded.

The disc is a collection of avant garde improvisations, mostly without tonal, harmonic, or rhythmic center. Although interesting, it is not easy music. I cannot imagine experiencing this recording as either the background music you ignore (as represented on all de Grassi's ensemble recordings) or as the sublime beauty experienced by listening closely to his solo guitar work.

It puts me more in mind of Cage's later piano works, after he'd shifted from being a composer to an observer of passing sounds. Slightly more structured and approachable, but not by much. It also reminds me of some of the collaborative work between Marc Ribot and John Zorn, although it lacks the in-your-face grating character of Ribot & Zorn's work.

4.0 out of 5 stars Music from another planet, May 27, 2008

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Prunehead Guru "The Guru" (Boston, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shortwave Postcard (Audio CD)

This is unlike anything de Grassi has ever done. It's music from another planet, another dimension. I only give it 4 stars because it may turn a few people off... But if you are an adventurous type, particularly an adventurous guitar player, this is a 5-star album.