Floratone - Floratone
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Artist: FloratoneBrand: FLORATONE
Performer: Bill Frisell
Performer: Matt Chamberlain
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-08-14
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Floratone
- The Wanderer
- Mississippi Rising
- The Passenger
- Swamped
- Monsoon
- Louisiana Lowboat
- The Future
- Take A Look
- Frontiers
- Threadbare
Music reviews of Floratone
Music Review: I really want to...
Rating: 2 Stars
...to like this album. First, my rating is based primarily on my expectations, not the album measured against all other albums by all other musicians. But it's based on both expectations from the past works of the key musician involved as well as the hype and gushing reviews I've read elsewhere. I was excited when I heard it profiled on NPR; I've loved Frisell for a long time, and I saw him recently with his trio and was very happy about the experience. But while the profile on NPR (and the floratone website) would have one believe this is a Frisellesque "B*****s Brew"--you know, record some jams, mess with 'em after the fact--the lack of rhythmic interest and over-use of cloying synthesizer (and cloying quasi-countryisms) gives the set a sameness, a sameness that affects much of Frisell's music. (Who is responsible for that "horn chorus" synthesizer thing? And its perpetual repetition? Townsend? I understand repetition, and simple figures are great things to repeat, but without much happening in the other textures of the music it is static; listen to Steve Reich if you want to hear repetition done right!) Usually this sameness is ameliorated by Frisell's lovely melodies; unfortunately, I don't hear melodies, perhaps some scraps, but not much of a sense of organic development. We are left with a set of (mostly) level dynamic rhythms with some noodling on top, a concept Bill Laswell explores to much greater effect on many recordings. Maybe a melody player and a drummer freely improvising doesn't work that well...oh yeah, what about "Interstellar Space" and several dozen truly genre-bursting and challenging works recorded in the last 30+ years? Frisell (and Metheny) continue to puzzle me: A tremendously talented guy who can make some beautiful music, but just as often he makes terrible esthetic choices that undermine his obvious talents.
Or maybe I'm just grumpy and should let these guys do what they want to do, they seem to like it. And I'll listen to the album because I own it and I really do want to like it. But I can't recommend it.
Description of Floratone
Blue Note Records presents FLORATONE, a unique studio collaboration between drummer Matt Chamberlain (Fiona Apple, Tori Amos), guitarist Bill Frisell, and producers Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Laura Veirs) & Lee Townsend. An experiment in musical democracy, the album features eleven stunning, groove-driven soundscapes that are best described as futuristic roots music. Special guests include the bassist Viktor Krauss, cornetist Ron Miles, and violinist/violist Eyvind King.Guitarist Bill Frisell and his Seattle-based confreres have reached a point where their atmospheric, group-oriented, laboratory-style evocations of Americana can be approached less as experiments than works in an established sub-genre. Floratone, which introduces prolific L.A. pop drummer Matt Chamberlain to the mix, started as a series of duets between him and fellow electronics maven Frisell. Their work was processed by engineers Tucker Martine and Lee Townsend, who passed it back for further tweaks and embellishments, including Ron Miles's plaintive horn. The prevailing quality is one of stillness in motion, but Frisell's involvement in toxic blues and early country cut through the minimalist and Copland-esque touches, and the rich melodies make individual songs stand out. --Lloyd Sachs
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