The Sweetness of the Water

Spring Heel Jack | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 8, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Thirsty Ear
• ASIN: B0001WENIM
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #390,066 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Drum N' Bass no more ..., June 13, 2004

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Troy Collins (Lancaster, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Sweetness of the Water (Audio CD)

John Coxon and Ashley Wales gradual nine year transformation from electronic duo to electro-acoustic improvisational unit finds it's apotheosis in this album. Featuring legendary guest trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and saxophonist Evan Parker, Spring Heel Jack have created a sound environment both subtly dissonant yet achingly beautiful.

While the guest improvisors are old school free jazzers, the leaders of this session come from a background more firmly rooted in contemporary pop music. The resulting combination yields an album rich in horn-based interplay, with a melodic and structural foundation that is as richly textural as it is nostalgically bittersweet. There is a sense of buried musical traditions in the organ chords, samples and feedback that add a level of emotional depth rarely heard in modern improvisational meetings like this. A summit meeting for the times, perhaps their most mature and impressive album to date.

4.0 out of 5 stars "Sweetness" is sweet!, November 2, 2005

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Marvin Ray "Marvin" (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sweetness of the Water (Audio CD)

This is a great album (if you like this sort of thing); it is "In a Silent Way" meets "Yellow Shark"; track 3, "Lata", is about one-half of one degree from being noise, and yet it sings so fine . . .