Control and Resistance

Control and Resistance Artist: Rich Woodson's Ellipsis
Label: Cuneiform
Category: Music


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


UPC: 045775013220
EAN: 0045775013220
ASIN: B00004SWHX


Release Date: 2000-05-16

Control and Resistance


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Tracks:

  1. The Gift Of Pain
  2. Abduction Fantasy
  3. Only Gravity Is Fair
  4. The Pornographic Subset
  5. The Gist Does Not Exist
  6. D.P. In Mono
  7. I Remember The Acid Bath
  8. Vulgarity In Lieu Of Nothing Else
  9. Teargash

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Amazon.com

Guitarist-composer Rich Woodson spent his formative years playing in Austin, Texas, rock bands, but that background doesn't immediately come to mind in the debut of his band Ellipsis. Instead, it's a tight collection of players from New York's Downtown scene, schooled in free jazz and adept at wending their way through PoMo mysteries. They're well-suited to Woodson's music, an oblique mix of jazz and rock sonorities wedded to an original structural methodology. Each of his pieces here is a sudden complex of elements, a patchwork of shifting beats and motifs that creates its own logic. Tension figures build only to suddenly stop; distorted guitar is matched with bowed bass; moments of rare lyricism are jolted by anarchic bursts. In fact, the pieces are a lot like their titles, perverse weddings of the routine and the bizarre, invocations of a world where chaos and repression leisurely walk hand in hand. The band includes saxophonists Aaron Stewart and Peter Epstein, bassist Mat Fieldes, and drummer John Hollenbeck, and they do a brilliant job of making the parts fit together, blurring the lines between the composed, the conducted, and the spontaneous. Woodson has cited the influence of saxophonist Tim Berne, composer Charles Wuorinen, and rock bad boy Frank Zappa, and listeners will likely add Captain Beefheart's Magic Band to the list, but Woodson's an original. With <I>Ellipsis</I>, he's assembled a fine instrument for realizing his vision. --Stuart Broomer

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Took a while to appreciate its beauty..........2006-10-04

But beautiful it is, and completely absorbing, even when it is dense and dissonent (which is most of the time!). Fans of Henry Cow or Zappa, or anyone else interested in something different and highly rewarding, should not hesitate to acquire this gem.

5 out of 5 stars Intense, stupendous..........2001-06-27

I've listened to this record more times than I can count, and it always pleases and surprises. Although parallels have been mentioned by reviewers, Rich Woodson is a composer all his own.

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