Bill Frisell, Is That You? - 51m 53s

Tracks & Durations

1. No Man's Land	6:41
2. Someone in My Backyard	2:51
3. Rag	4:07
4. Is That You	6:53
5. The Way Home	6:01
6. Twenty Years	2:46
7. Chain Of Fools	3:31
8. Hello Nellie	4:11
9. The Days Of Wine And Roses	3:41
10. Yuba City	5:44
11. Half A Million	4:05
12. Hope And Fear	1:14

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Review

Recorded in 1989, Is That You? is very much a studio session, making ample use of overdubs and Bill Frisell's highly selective doubling on bass, banjo, ukulele, and clarinet, as well as his usual guitars. Producer Wayne Horvitz adds keyboards and some drum programming, with Joey Baron playing drums and Dave Hofstra appearing occasionally on tuba and electric bass. It's Frisell's ability to construct novel musical zones that stands out, mixing acoustic folk-derived materials with distorted big-beat electric guitars in what sometimes feels like a one-man culture clash. Much of this genre evasion takes place at slow tempos, making the method even more impressive, and sometimes one of Frisell's long bends seems to span continents. The ethereally beautiful "The Way Home" sounds as if it's straddling a picturesque Japan and steel-guitar country, wandering slowly between the two without ever taking up a definite residence. Those qualities appear frequently here, and there are also a couple of terrific covers, a slow solo-guitar version of Henry Mancini's "The Days of Wine and Roses" filled with a wandering tonality, and a very funky version of Aretha Franklin's hit "Chain of Fools." --Stuart Broomer

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Is That You?

Tracks: 12, Disk length: 51m 46s (-1m 53s)

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