Uninvisible

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Barnes & Noble - Roberta Penn
The little trio that could take a tad of dissonance into the mainstream by driving with deep grooves continue to roll along the same track they established with 1998’s Combustication. Keyboardist John Medeski, drummer Billy Martin, and bassist Chris Wood chug along through a set of original tunes with an array of DJs and guests. DJ P Love adds turntables to the classic organ trio sound on “Pappy Check.” Deep-throated singer Col. Bruce Hampton creates a beat-generation vibe with his rap on “Your Name is Snake Anthony,” while DJ Olive’s turntables, Danny Blume's guitar, and Eddie Bobe's percussion add an edge of unpredictability that even Lenny Bruce would love. As the ...
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Editorial Reviews

Barnes & Noble - Roberta Penn
The little trio that could take a tad of dissonance into the mainstream by driving with deep grooves continue to roll along the same track they established with 1998’s Combustication. Keyboardist John Medeski, drummer Billy Martin, and bassist Chris Wood chug along through a set of original tunes with an array of DJs and guests. DJ P Love adds turntables to the classic organ trio sound on “Pappy Check.” Deep-throated singer Col. Bruce Hampton creates a beat-generation vibe with his rap on “Your Name is Snake Anthony,” while DJ Olive’s turntables, Danny Blume's guitar, and Eddie Bobe's percussion add an edge of unpredictability that even Lenny Bruce would love. As the set progresses, the group moves further into the experimental with the spacey “Take Me Nowhere,” the trip-hoppery of “Nocturnal Transmission,” and the industrial, funk-sparked “The Edge of Night.” Uninvisible is quite a ride through the sounds of today, and the scenery is never dull.
All Music Guide - Robert L. Doerschuk
Uninvisible is further than ever from conventional jazz organ. While blues and funk influences are evident throughout the album, they float on a sea of shadows. Sound sources are obscure or exotic; on "Pappy Check" innovative scratching by turntablist DJ Olive creates an impression of African percussion more than club atmospherics. Even where the instrumentation is less ambiguous, the trio steers toward a filmic noir sensibility, with Medeski leading the way in unorthodox techniques. His pitch-bend solo on "Take Me Nowhere" suggests the creak of a rusty hinge, with Wood's acoustic bass providing the anchor for his abstractions. Wood is in fact often mixed higher than Medeski, to the effect of reducing the keyboard parts to a sideline role and the album in turn to an exercise in mood more than virtuosity -- an impression enhanced by a similarly eccentric shrinkage of the power guitar part on "The Edge of Night" to a barely audible background element. The rhythm is steady and stealthy, a slow-motion oscillation between live and looped tracks, most often with a hip-hop sensibility. More important, every musician on each cut plays with a belief that overplaying only subverts the goals of collective improvisation. If any one album can be said to pick up on the surreal funk explorations of latter-day Miles Davis, Uninvisible is it.
Billboard
Medeski, Martin and Wood turn in some of their most satisfying and accessible work in years on Uninvisible

Medeski, Martin and Wood turn in some of their most satisfying and accessible work in years on Uninvisible
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 4/9/2002
  • Label: Blue Note Records
  • UPC: 724353587024
  • Catalog Number: 35870
  • Sales rank: 61,529

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 Uninvisible (3:37)
  2. 2 I Wanna Ride You (3:28)
  3. 3 Your Name Is Snake Anthony (3:12)
  4. 4 Pappy Check (2:46)
  5. 5 Take Me Nowhere (4:07)
  6. 6 Retirement Song (4:47)
  7. 7 Ten Dollar High (3:42)
  8. 8 Where Have You Been? (3:37)
  9. 9 Reprise (0:35)
  10. 10 Nocturnal Transmission (6:37)
  11. 11 Smoke (2:48)
  12. 12 The First Time Long Time (2:53)
  13. 13 Edge of Night (3:53)
  14. 14 Off the Table (4:15)
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Album Credits

Performance Credits
Medeski, Martin & Wood Primary Artist
Danny Blume Guitar, Guitar (Baritone)
Col. Bruce Hampton Vocals
Scotty Hard Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Turntables, Rhythm
John Medeski Organ, Piano, Strings, Keyboards, Hammond Organ, Clavinet, Melodica, Mellotron, fender rhodes, Wurlitzer, Mini Moog, Arp Strings
Brad Roberts Vocals
Billy Martin Percussion, Drums, Triangle, Bells, Bata, talking drum
Eddie Bobe Percussion, Conga, Bells, Bottle, Bata, Shekere, Shakere
Aaron Johnson Trombone
DJ Olive Turntables
Chris Wood Bass, Electric Bass, Acoustic Bass
Todd M. Simon Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Trompong
Stuart Bogie Tenor Saxophone, Alto Clarinet, Contra-alto Clarinet
Dj P Love Turntables
Jordan McLean Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Michael Herbst Bass Clarinet, Baritone Saxophone
Technical Credits
Scotty Hard Producer, Engineer, drum machine, Feedback
John Medeski Contributor, Sequential Circuits
Howie Weinberg Mastering
David Bias Art Direction
Greg Griffiths Engineer
Michael Fossenkemper Contributor
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