Duos For Doris
- 艺人
- Keith Rowe
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Erstwhile
- 发行时间
- 2003年04月29日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Brian Olewnick
Despite having associated with each other in musical contexts since the mid-'60s, and despite comprising two-thirds of AMM since about 1980, Keith Rowe and John Tilbury had never performed as a duo prior to this session. Duos for Doris is dedicated to the pianist's mother, who passed away three days before this recording, and an air of thoughtful melancholy, as well as resolution and a degree of anguish, certainly hovers over the extraordinary music that transpires. The two discs contain three lengthy improvisations, each of which catch these musicians at or near the height of their immense powers and creating on a level rivaling anything produced by AMM: this is Newfoundland squared. "Cathnor," a 70-minute exploration of enormous range and depth, comprises the first disc and offers creative improvisation on a vast scale from delicate taps and scrapes; to profound low and mournful chords; to conciliatory melodies of extreme delicacy and restraint. Restraint, indeed, is one of the major features of this recording. More and more in the years leading up to this date, Rowe had preferred to make himself nearly invisible, to provide a "canvas" for others to use as a platform. Here, the listener's ear is automatically drawn to Tilbury's lovely, Morton Feldman-inflected tones (and no-one has as pure a touch as Tilbury) but when one shifts to Rowe, there's almost always a ton of rich, complicated stuff going on, all of it accenting and couching the piano. Toward the end of the final track, Tilbury leaned into the piano and stroked individual strings between thumb and forefinger, eliciting ghostly tones of a sublime and heart-rending nature. He then transferred this ethereal "melody" to the upper reaches of the keyboard, creating music of such fragility and grace as is rarely heard anywhere. There are several moments such as this in Duos for Doris, contributing to an achievement of surpassing beauty, and simply one of the finest albums one is ever likely to hear.
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