Far East High & Low
by Stone Freelabel: Shi-Ra-Nui
CD Album
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Far East High & Low
A thirty-eight minute centerpiece composed with periphrastic trills of echoing Ayler-esque flutters and impressionistic smears of emulsive electronic and woodwind feedback assures Stone Free a lofty setting among the "hieroglyphic silent painters" whom he admires. His short list of such similarly-(dis)oriented adventurers in the boundless outermost climes of out-jazz includes Corpus Hermeticum's coterie of efflorescent anti-Rock improvisers and the cerebral circuit-warp linguists of Köln's A-Musik label. A heptad of harmolodic haiku penned for guest hieroglyphicist Midori's sketchy flickers of saxophone, disseminated through Stone Free's ether of sibilant rushes and rumors, and an introductory miniature solo of circular ciphers and a soupçon of hiphop electronics (reminiscent of Stone Free's earlier 'Black Lights Jazz' album), round out a mesmerizing set. [read]Posted by gil gershman at 00:00, 03 Dec 1998