The Tao of Mad Phat: Fringe Zones

The Tao of Mad Phat: Fringe Zones Artist: Steve Coleman & the Five Elements
Label: Bmg Int'l
Category: Music



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


UPC: 012416316026
EAN: 0012416316026
ASIN: B0000089Y8


Release Date: 1999-05-18

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Tracks:

  1. Tao of Mad Phat
  2. Alt-Shift-Return - Steve Coleman, Steve Coleman
  3. Collective Meditations I (Suite): Changing of the Guard
  4. Collective Meditations I (Suite): Guards on the Train
  5. Collective Meditations I (Suite): Relax Your Guard
  6. Collective Meditations I (Suite): All the Guards There Are
  7. Collective Meditations I (Suite): Enter the Rhythm (People)
  8. Incantation
  9. Laid Back Schematics
  10. Polymaid Nomads
  11. Little Girl on Fire

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars More Life Energy From Steve Coleman.......2006-12-15

The music of Steve Coleman is always inspiring. I recently played it to a pianist friend of mine who immediately said "this is how music should be made today". I had the same thought when I first heard Coleman's music.
This CD features Coleman and the Five Elements in their sizzling best - with Andy Milne (piano/keyboards), David Gilmore (guitar), Reggie Washington (electric bass), and Oliver Gene Lake Jr. (drums and percussion). The rhythms are as tight as they come, with each instrument free to take the music to different places, without any chaos taking place. Coleman's playing is so many things - smooth, rough, free, structured... certainly the most intersting performer today in my mind.

This CD was recorded live in front of a studio audience. The tunes sometimes sound like funk, sometimes like mainstream jazz, but it is misleading - the rhythms are never simple, the meters never symmetric. One would think this is how Charlie Parker would sound had he been born 30 years later. Try to follow the amazing "Alt Shift Return", and see how intersting the seemingly simple rhythm becomes !

Hopefully, this is where music is going, and every music lover should tune in.

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