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Bill Frisell, Unspeakable

Audio CD

Disk ID: 214587

Disk length: 1h 12m 47s (14 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2004

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. 1968 4:37
2. White Fang 5:41
3. Sundust 2:38
4. Del Close 5:05
5. Gregory C 5:41
6. Stringbean 5:58
7. Hymn For Ginsberg 2:26
8. Alias 7:56
9. Who Was That Girl? 4:53
10. D. Sharpe 4:13
11. Fields Of Alfalfa 3:41
12. Tony 3:37
13. Old Sugar Bear 7:12
14. Goodbye Goodbye Goodbye 8:59

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Review

Stylistic shifts are nothing new in the career of Bill Frisell, who changes musical directions more often than Madonna. In fact, he even covered a Madonna song once. Unspeakable continues that tendency as Frisell teams up with Hal Willner, a willful musical eclectic. The two have worked together on collaborative projects including tributes to Nino Rota, Walt Disney, and Charles Mingus. Willner, who is also the turntabulist here, orchestrates a landscape of turntable spins and space jams using generic library production discs for much of his source material. '60s Dragnet jazz horns and orchestral Twilight Zone stylings lend the modern sound of Unspeakable a strangely nostalgic hue. Frisell finds himself in a landscape of Ligeti-like strings, bongo percolations, and Ghanian tribal calls, most of it super-charged by the rhythm team of bassist Tony Scherr and drummer Kenny Wollesen. Their funky beats lay the terrain for Frisell's angular crossfire solos, but he can also wax sweetly nostalgic on "Hymn for Ginsberg" for guitar and string trio. Bill Frisell is filed in jazz, but he continues to be a genre unto himself. --John DilibertoOn Unspeakable, guitarist Bill Frisell and producer Hal Willner (Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed) take a freewheelings, idiosyncratic approach to the modern art of music sampling, in a groove-and-soul based project. Frisell and Willner employ often obscure songs and sounds culled from vintage vinyl as the jumping off-point for their own sonic explorations, with choice fragments borrowed and integrated into original compositions. Unspeakable can have a fierce and infectious groove at times, and at others will adopt a more relaxed and reflective feel.

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Unspeakable

Tracks: 14, Disk length: 1h 12m 1s (-1m 14s)

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