Body Meta

Body Meta Artist: Ornette Coleman
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 731453191624
EAN: 0731453191624
ASIN: B00000473V


Release Date: 1996-09-24

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Tracks:

  1. Voice Poetry
  2. Home Grown
  3. Macho Woman
  4. Fou Amour
  5. European Echoes

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars FREELY FLOWING GENIUS.......2001-04-17

This album was the 1st ever to be released on the Artist's House label back in 1978, & that translates literally to the cover of Body Meta, a gatefold featuring 4 works by different artists, that one on the front is by a tribal leader, probably from when Ornette went to Morrocco to see the Jajouka musicians which inspired Dancing In Yr Head & this [others like Brian Jones, William Burroughs & Lee Ranaldo have taken this enlightening pilgrimage], & the credits are saved for an insert which also features a great poem 'Conversation For A Song' & a then complete discography + the sheet music for the song Fou Amour from this excellent disc. Staccato drums then guitars open the album on Voice Poetry, & it flows along brilliantly to feature this new band of guitarists Bern Nix & Charlie Ellerbee, bassist [electric that is] Jamalaadeen Tacuma & drummer Shannon Jackson for a couple of minutes before the arrival of the man himself. The he is the star & his playing is as pure & soulful as it was back on the Shape of Jazz to Come, & in a way it's unfortunate that everything else gets buried underneath it after this but it works well. The comparisons to the Trout Mask Magic Band do make sense although this is not as cacaphonous & seemingly chaotic [Beefheart although being highly influenced by Coleman, like to only have himself allowed to improvise while his groups must stick strictly to what he composed & his personality is a bit more obsessive too], Body Meta is one of the rare things worthy of being played directly after that in-a-world-of-its-own masterpiece. Each track here is around 8 minutes which is enough time to explore without losing the listening audience. The next 2 tracks move along nicely in a similar vein whilst Fou Amour [i.e. Mad Love] is a ballad & the guitars are playing parts normally designed for a piano. European Echoes if I'm not mistaken was an older tune from the Golden Circle & is rather graceful but thankfully lets loose a bit on the outro, by which time I want to spin the whole platter again which I could do for hours on end. This is music of pure soul expression & deserves a lot of repeated listening, it's highly danceable/funky too. I would highly recommend it to anyone & everyone. For the body & the mind. Long live Ornette & all of his players.

4 out of 5 stars Harmolodic Electricity.......2000-02-23

From the Bo Diddley-influenced "Voice Poetry" to "European Echoes," this is some brain-frizzling stuff. Even though Ornette uses electric guitar and electric bass here, this can't really be compared to the other "jazz fusion" that came out in the 70s. This is more personal and very individualistic. Where most fusion bands were trying to sound like John Coltrane gone electric, Prime Time and Ornette drew on basic rock/r&b forms here, and then bend them beyond recognition. If you're a big fan of acoustic jazz, chances are you won't like much here. However, if you have an open ear and are familiar with bands like Captain Beefheart and Pere Ubu, you will immediately click with this. Ornette sounds great here and it's fascinating to hear him playing over, under and around the electric guitars, bass and drums. On the liner notes Ornette says the music is "...not jazz, classical, rock, or blues...it is pure Harmolodic where all forms can exist in the now..." This is exactly true. The music on here is unclassifiable and if you pay attention to it, it unfolds before you in strange beauty. One of Ornette's best, I think.

3 out of 5 stars check out the Atlantic stuff first.......1999-06-06

Have to admit, I like the acoustic stuff better, maybe because Ornette doesn't use electronic instruments to their fullest potential, like Miles and Jimi did. But nevertheless this one rocks like The Dead or Beefheart, but Ornette's frenetic alto drives the sound into crazier territory than either of those did (but CB came close...), but I can't give it a higher rating. If you're a rock fan and want to find out more about Ornette (welcome!!!), go for _^The Shape of Jazz to Come_ , _Tone Dialing_,or _At the Golden Circle_ (2 cd's). This cd may disappoint you.

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