Lines and Spaces

About the Artist
Anders Svanoe was born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin and has performed with Tomato Box Creative Music Ensemble, The Ed Anders Quartet, The Madison Jazz Orchestra as well as with Greg Abate and Roscoe Mitchell. He can be heard on Mitchell's recording "Song For My Sister" on Pi Records.

Product Description
For his first album as a leader, reedist Anders Svanoe recruits his friend and mentor, Art Ensemble of Chicago founder Roscoe Mitchell for a duet which finds thh pair exploring Art Ensemble style percussion as well as homemade wind instruments in a joint composition featuring each players distinctive brand of improvising. The record also features a duet with Svanoe's friend and longtime collaborator Henry Boehm as well as a large ensemble piece "For AB", dedicated to Anthony Braxton. The record is informed by the Chicago avant garde of the 60s while at the same time forging it's own individual voice.

Lines and Spaces,Anders Svanoe,Modern Creative

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Lines & Spaces John Stowell , and Lynn Skinner Manufacturer: Gsp Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B00069FJK6 Release Date: 2004-09-14

Tracks:

1. Yesterdays
2. 'Tis Autumn
3. Mr. Clown
4. You and the Night and the Music
5. My Ideal
6. Spring Is Here
7. Gentle Rain
8. Face I Love
9. Soft Skin
10. Waltz for Debby
11. Estate
12. Farmer's Market
13. Over the Rainbow

Average customer rating: Decibel Magazine Review-Kevin Stewart-Panko

Black Spaces Between Stars Gezoleen Manufacturer: Acerbic Noise Development ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music General | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0009WYYHE Release Date: 2005-06-28

Tracks:

1. The Pillow Over Face Corporation
2. To Paint A Man
3. Sndnthy
4. Interspecies Disappointment
5. Phoning It In From The Subconscious
6. Black Spaces Between Stars
7. Suit Dissolves Flesh
8. Trnsmssnntrcptdnddcdd

Product Description

Welcome yourself to this "one man band” of multiple coagulated bass lines, mangled drum tracks, textural samples and synths, vocal dementia, and above all, commanding musicianship. Resonating like the illegitimate spawn of the AmRep family, this anything-but-straight-ahead composite of blackened, disfigured arrangements bristles with heart, rhythm, and a sickening menace. Witness a plethora of boundary-crushing, mind-throttling information crammed into one caustic half hour. This is the uncontrolled, unusual, and uncompromising sound of a musical visionary truly losing patience…and someone's bound to get hurt. Features artwork by Paul Nitsche (Dazzling Killmen/Skin Graft Comics), and there’s a bit of a surprise included. Also check out an exclusive Gezoleen track on the Hydra Head vs. Double H Industries Compilation, "Where's My Robotic Boot?" Come listen to mp3’s and be his/their buddy at: www.myspace.com/gezoleen

Customer Reviews:

Decibel Magazine Review-Kevin Stewart-Panko.......2005-11-30

Black hole of musical murder

From the onset of the first track, "The Pillow Over Face Corporation," you know your nerves and aural faculties are going to be grated like bricks of cheese in an Italian restaurant. Even when said track is presented in that muted, static-y radio style, the screech of something resembling a guitar and the sub-atomic pulsating of the bass shines through loud and clear. And
when the man behind this one-man excursion into the grey area between white noise and music mimicking the sound of eleven tractor-trailers grinding on a hairpin turn guard rail, it hits you that much harder. Gezoleen approximates and summarizes many sound scenarios: what it would sound like if Jim (Foetus) Thirwell interpreted Big Black with guitars and Chinese fireworks;being pushed off the edge of a fiery volcano by James Plotkin; the Swans doing an on-line mash up of Neubaten's "Autobahn" and Neurosis' "Pain Of Mind"; the guy from Naglfar taking a volley of buckshot to the chin; an intestine-collapsing caboodle of thrashcore riffs through the rusty and dusty distortion pedal Mike Patton once ran his vocals through. Black Spaces Between Stars is as damaging as it is frightening; life-affirming as it is destructive and engaging as it is repulsing.
KEVIN STEWART-PANKO

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Lines and Spaces Anders Svanoe ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00008IP16 Release Date: 2002-07-01

Tracks:

1. Opus No. 1 for Plungerhosaphone and Percussion
2. Squeek
3. For AB

Album Description

For his first album as a leader, reedist Anders Svanoe recruits his friend and mentor, Art Ensemble of Chicago founder Roscoe Mitchell for a duet which finds thh pair exploring Art Ensemble style percussion as well as homemade wind instruments in a joint composition featuring each players distinctive brand of improvising. The record also features a duet with Svanoe's friend and longtime collaborator Henry Boehm as well as a large ensemble piece "For AB", dedicated to Anthony Braxton. The record is informed by the Chicago avant garde of the 60s while at the same time forging it's own individual voice.

Average customer rating: Excellent musicianship throughout

Lines & Spaces John Stowell , and Lynn Skinner Manufacturer: GSP ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000003WFS Release Date: 2004-09-14

Tracks:

1. Yesterdays
2. Tis Autumn
3. Mr. Clown
4. You & The Night & The Music
5. My Ideal
6. Spring Is Here
7. Gentle Rain
8. The Face I Love
9. Soft Skin
10. Waltz For Debbie
11. Estate
12. Farmer's Market
13. Over The Rainbow

Customer Reviews:

Excellent musicianship throughout.......1999-02-28

John Stowell is an gifted guitarist who plays absolutely beautiful original music as well as arrangements of tunes written by others. Creative chord voicings and interesting improvisations are present from beginning to end. A great choice for anyone interested in contemporary jazz guitar.

Average customer rating: thumbs up Save Your Money On John's behalf Good guitar player, Bad guitar

Lines & Spaces John Stowell , and Lynn Skinner Manufacturer: Gsp Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004XSY5 Release Date: 2000-09-12

Tracks:

1. Yesterdays
2. Tis Autumn
3. Mr. Clown
4. You & The Night & The Music
5. My Ideal
6. Spring Is Here
7. Gentle Rain
8. The Face I Love
9. Soft Skin
10. Waltz For Debbie
11. Estate
12. Farmer's Market
13. Over The Rainbow

Customer Reviews:

thumbs up.......2002-02-23

This album is a must have (if you can get a hold of it). I hadn't heard of stowell until recently - he is being touted as a major rising force in the jazz guitar community. Unable to find any online samples anywhere, I bought the CD with no idea of what I was getting (like we used to do before the internet). Stowell is the kind of musician that leaves an aspiring guitarist like myself awestruck. His chordal and harmonic approach is so refreshing - he avoids most of those guitar cliches, playing more like a piano player (with huge hands). He does not let the the supposed physical limitations of the guitar hold him back, he achieves amazing and unique chord voicings, kind of reminiscent of Alan Holdsworth's work, except Stowell is working from a much more traditional jazz chord/melody starting point, and implementing in in a non-traditional way. But this work is by no means a chops intensive ego trip, this is very accessible, and easy to digest jazz that could be appreciated by non-guitarists. As far as his tone goes, there is no jazz rule book that says that all guitarists must play with a super dark tone ala Jim Hall; Johns tone is on the bright side, and he utilizes some time delay effects, but it is pleasing to my ear, and it allows his beautiful voicings to ring clearly. One reviewer commented on audible fret noise - turning the treble on your amp down all the way does wonders for masking those little imperfections - it's just part of the sound. I must admit that I have a hard time listening to the tracks that feature Lynn Skinners vocals - admittedly, I'm not a big vocals fan. I realize that Stowell wasn't going in this direction, but I think it would be better as a virtuoso effort.

Save Your Money.......2001-06-12

The guitar playing is awful and almost every track has that terrible fusion guitar sound that helps to mask mediocre skill. On the few cuts where the sound isn't electronicly smeared, you can often hear the buzz from an inaccurately fingered fret. This is acceptable when you're listening to someone like Joe Pass play 10 notes a second at a live jazz festival but there is no excuse for it on relatively slow passages recorded in a studio. I was especially disappointed with Somewhere Over the Rainbow which is one of my all time favorites and is given disastrous treatment by Mr. Stowell. The melody is distorted so as to be unrecognizable at times and finally lost in a misguided attempt to be original. The singer, Lynn Skinner, has a pretty voice but it doesn't work in this setting. If you like good jazz guitar then I don't think this CD can be priced low enough to make it worth purchasing.

On John's behalf.......2001-02-05

In defense of the review by J. Randall Groves, I would like to say that I have heard John many times and the tone he uses works much better live. Be that as it may, a musicians "sound" has so much more to do with the player, and less to do with the equipment. If anyone else picked up Pat Metheny's guitar it wouldn't sound like him. It's the same with Stowell or any good musician. If the sound of the guitar bothers you, listen to the sound of the player. In spite of his dark guitar tone, John is a fantastic musician, one of the most unique guitarists I've witnessed, and one of my favorites. Check him out. ...and if anyone cares, Stowell deos not use a solidbody electric as stated by Groves. He uses a custom made hollow electric (flat top, not arched) and a custom made nylon string with similar consruction. (Neither have any sound holes)

Good guitar player, Bad guitar.......2000-10-18

As a major fan of jazz guitar, I looked forward to hearing John Stowell. He came with high praise from people who know jazz guitar. I was not disappointed with Stowell's playing; he can really play, and he is playing in a very difficult context for jazz guitarists: solo and vocal accompianiment. Joe Pass comes to mind as the greatest solo and vocal accompianist in the history of jazz guitar, and Stowell, while no Joe Pass, constitutes a good addition to the tradition. The main problem, however, is the sound of his guitar. He goes for the "Metheney-fusion" sound, which is fine in a group context--although even then it is not my cup of tea, but is terrible in a solo or vocal acc. context. There is simply no body to the sound. With all the great guitars available in this golden age of archtops, why Stowell goes with a solid body electric with digital delay is beyond me. This aspect of his sound will probably keep me from listening to him much, and will keep me from buying any more of his cds, and this is unfortunate since it is clear that he can play. The sixth and 8th track is the exception with a classical guitar, which works much better for this type of music. This record also features Lynn Skinner on vocals. I can't say that she is bad; she just doesn't stand out much. She has a very straight, thin, non-vibrato, non-altered sound that is incompatible with the sound of Stowell's guitar except for the two tracks mentioned before. In sum, some bad choices mar some excellent playing.

Jazz Music:

1. Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Vol. 6 [Live]
2. Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Vol. 7 [Live]
3. Love Walked In [Import]
4. Love Walked in [Import] [Original recording remastered]
5. Magic Touch [Original recording remastered] [Import]
6. Mambo Rage
7. Memorial (OJC)
8. Midnight Special
9. Miles Davis and Milt Jackson Quintet/Sextet
10. Monk

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