Monitor

by Michael Moore

Overview

Dutch clarinetist Michael Moore has participated in a wide array of ventures, his best known perhaps the groups known as Clusone 3 and Available Jelly. He has shown a propensity for unusual colors, original sounds, and offbeat rhythms. This one is no different in its originality, though it is entirely new and exciting in its results. Joined by cellist Tristan Honsinger and pianist/keyolinist/organist Cor Fuhler, the three impress with their low-key and virtuosic pummeling of convention. At times it sounds like chamber jazz, but these free-wheeling exercises in free improvisation surprise and impress with changing combinations, altered directions, mixed time signatures, and explosive riffs -- all that suggest new ways of building on old traditions. Fuhler stuns with his "keyolin" -- a homemade contraption, which is described in Kevin Whitehead's liners as "a two-string viola suspended over a three-octave keyboard" that is bowed with the right hand. It meshes nicely with the cello, and the recording succeeds exceptionally well as a whole. ~ Steven Loewy

Product Details

Release Date:	09/12/2000
Label:	Between The Lines
UPC:	0718751017320
Rank:	217245

Tracks

1. Riddled
2. Budnike
3. Five Bits
4. Misericordia
5. Gulls
6. Race in Space for Face
7. Focus
8. Bounding
9. Desintresse en Deviatie, Opnieuw en Opnieuw
10. Monitor
11. Barium

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Michael Moore   Primary Artist,Saxophone,Clarinet,Sax (Alto),Clarinet (Bass)
Cor Fuhler   Organ (Hammond),Keyboards,Piano,Organ
Tristan Honsinger   Cello

Technical Credits

Michael Moore   Composer,Composer
Wolfgang Stach   Engineer
Cor Fuhler   Composer
Tristan Honsinger   Composer
Jutta Obenhuber   Artwork
Yvonne Pietz   Graphic Design
Kevin Whitehead   Liner Notes
Between the Lines   Producer