We explored some aspects of our improvisational art, gleaned the best elements from our baggage of music memories and exposed them clearly and confidently.(Andrea Centazzo) Drop Two
DRROPS Derek Bailey / Andrea Centazzo
ICTUS 122 (2006)
Tracks: 1. DROP ONE 2.38 2. RECAPITULATION, REITERATION AND RABBITS 2.50 3. HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN GOING ON 4.23 4. DROP TWO 4.18 5. TUTTI CNATABILE 5.28 6. DROP THREE 2.51 7. DROP FOUR 2.41 8. SING, SING, SING, SING 5.34 9. JIM NEVER SEEMS TO SEND ME PRETTY FLOWERS 7.53
All improvisations/compositions by Centazzo/Bailey
Performed by: Derek Bailey - electric & acoustic guitars Andrea Centazzo - percussion
Recorded: Recorded and mixed by Andrea Centazzo at Centazzo Studio Moruzzo (Italy) - 3 & 4 April 1977 Originally released as DROPS- ICTUS LP 003 and as CD on Ictus Reissue Series #5. All Tracks Digitally Re-Mastered and Edited By Andrea Centazzo 2005
About: British guitarist Derek Bailey was the first musician to give a new sound to the jazz guitar, breaking the rules of traditional playing and improvising. Recorded in 1977, Drops has often been defined one of the best performances of Derek Bailey, in the Seventies, acclaimed for its explosive clarity, dialogic energy and overflowing imagination.
Behind all this is an operative praxis that we have tried to use in producing records of so-called improvised music. This praxis involves organizing the improvisational process by channeling it into more or less open structures. The kaleidoscopic quality of Drops was created by this restraint of performing limits, i.e. the choice of instrumental timbres, dynamics and metronome speeds to suit each piece.
We explored some aspects of our improvisational art, gleaned the best elements from our baggage of music memories and exposed them clearly and confidently.
Therefore these are compositions of... improvised music.
