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Fairclough, Peter/Keith Tippett - Imago

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Hard to find duo release - we were lucky to get a modest number in, but when they are gone, that's it!

"I gave their previous CD "Wild Silk" (ASC Records) four 'phones and this is if anything even better. It immediately draws the listener in with the swirling and stormy opener, "The February Sea". The music conjures images of its title, as both Tippett and Fairclough paint musical pictures of the subject. The long title track (45 minutes) follows and contains more ideas and invention than most musicians achieve in a lifetime. It's a ferociosly powerful piece, which uses feedom in improvisation as means rather than as an end in itself. When Tippet picks up what amounts to the tracks coda about 12 minutes in, he launches forward with notes tumbling. In that moment, there's something of that headlong abandonment of McCoy Tyner's work with Coltrane and on his own early 70's records on Milestone. I think Tyner would have enjoyed playing with Peter Fairclough, whose quiet thunder beneath Tippett's tinkling, Chinese-sounding piano is a masterpiece of controlled power. Imago has a suite-like quality with each movement being completely realised within an entirely cohereent whole. This is simply breathtaking, bravura music-making. The two remaining tracks, "Left-field Boogie" and "D'Accord", would in lesser hands seem no more than mere afterthoughts but instead each seems more like a gilded minature, small maybe but perfectly formed. A fine record from two masters of the improvisational art."-Duncan Heining

"Peter and Keith Don't Just Play their Instruments and They Don't Re-invent them Either. They Caress Them, Celebrate Them, Tour them and Explore Them. They Blend them but They Don't Extend Them. At the End of the Performance, the Piano is Still a Piano - Unprepared. After the Last Sound Wave Has Ebbed Away, the Cymbal is Still a Cymbal - the Drum Remains a Drum."


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