Tracklist
1. Surface Tension (3:37)
2. A Week Went By (7:28)
3. Steinblock (4:20)
4. Just Drop In (8:58)
5. 57577 (5:14)
6. Ima Wa Mukashi (7:29)
7. Cell Culture (5:35)
8. Men Are Shadows (5:34)
9. Yumetamago (2:59)

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Aki_Takase-A_Week_Went_By-2010-CFD
ARtiSt...... : Aki Takase
AlbUM....... : A Week Went By
GENRE....... : Jazz
lAbEl....... : Psi
CAtNR....... : PSI1003
SoURcE...... : CDDA
StREEt.dAtE. : 06-04-2010
QUAlitY..... : VBR/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
URl......... : http://www.myspace.com/akitakase
SiZE........ : 80.17MB
.. S O N G . T i T L E ..
01. Surface Tension 3:36
02. A Week Went By 7:27
03. Steinblock 4:20
04. Just Drop In 8:58
05. 57577 5:14
06. Ima Wa Mukashi 7:29
07. Cell Culture 5:34
08. Men Are Shadows 5:34
09. Yumetamago 2:58
Runtime..: 51:10 min
.. R E L E A S E ..
.. i N F O ..
This is audacious music. In the
emerging drama, pianist Aki Takase
plays just a ripple away from
bassist John Edwards, who is, in
turn, a ripple away from
percussionist Tony Levin. Each
relates to the other through the
glacial topography of something
such as kryptonite. Thus the whole
idea of the trio is turned inside
out as new musical structures
emerge from the prodding of the
piano, which rubs against the
basssometimes like a cricketand
the percussion, which is
thunderstruck with mallets, lithe
and sprightly with brushes, or
deeply and sonorously pulsing with
stick rolling on taut skins.
Takase plays with diaphanous flair.
Her pianism rolls and thunders on
an ocean of tone and color. Chords
are the kelp, whose clusters
flutter and unfurl as the music
darts onward and upward, pirouettes
and then falls with a myriad of
overtones around the principal path
of the songs melody. But then she
roars and thunders as the song
demands of her a swaggering shuffle
that eggs on its interior rhythm.
Or she may whisper puckishly as her
piano flagrantly flirts with bass
and drums.
Takase binds the trio as it builds
on the sub-structure that she
creates. The poetics of her music
determine that it swings and
surprises as it melds with the
poetry of empirical science. How
long will this tantalising Surface
Tension last if the elastic of its
melody is pulled apart by rhythm
and agonizing harmony? Takase and
her colleagues dance around the
pulse of the metre as time stands
still in the very dynamism of its
upward motion. The bass cuts, arco
con brio, past from present, and
splices future in a continuum with
single notes on perfectly struck
strings. Dampers are opened and
closed heartlessly. Pedals sustain
notes, arpeggios create vertical
shafts of sound, and the
mathematics of time meld once again
into the poetics of pure curved air
as A Week Went By. Cell Culture
is a dark probing piece with a
black velvet feel. In Men Are
Shadows, the trio eclipses the
individual constituents to keep the
noir aspect of the piece as
mysterious as it possibly can until
the end.
There is a dry heat that smokes and
simmers under Just Drop In as the
song smoulders with references to
pianist Thelonious Monk, trumpeter
Dizzy Gillespie and saxophonist
Charlie Parker. The angular attack
is only surpassed by the dry
resonating growl of John Tchicais
alto saxophone. On her own,
thoughthat is when she presses on
with 57577, Ima Wa Mukashi and
YumetamagoTakase peels away a
layer of skin to reveal a pianist
who is at once forthright and funny
as well as highly emotional. Her
approach to the instrument may
still be the samepercussive and
sharp as she explores its
geography. Strings are wont to be
hammered and struck by felted heads
as with other objects that bounce
around the strings, when they are
plucked and beaten as in
Yumetamago. On 57577 Takase
shows a devastating two handed
technique with dazzling runs and
electrifying arpeggios. She makes
the science fiction of the piano
becomes a stark reality on this
wondrous album.
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