For about a year I've been reading the posts of the artist known as Eyeball at Freejazz.org. When I heard about this disc I was stoked. Red Coffee/Black Wine is the disc for all who seek new dimensions in sound. There is no category I know of for this music. Jazz? Yes. Noise? Sure. Psychedelic? Without a doubt. EAI? Yip. But the sum of this music is much more than the individual parts. Each genre has long been contained in high walled cells. Mingling has been minimal. This recording breeches those walls and blends them into something new, original, personal. Instrumentation ranges from prepared traditional instruments to the non-traditional such as amplified springs, sheets of metal and dust pans. The more I listened to this music the deeper it seemed to get. Like peeling away the fragrant petals of some exotic flower. Each track is pure expression, adrenaline and such a personal musical approach that the listener can not help but walk away feeling connected the world of sound around them. I HIGHLY recommend this disc for those who wish to listen deeply. It will change the way you hear.
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This is a wholly original cd that all but erases the boundaries between free jazz and electro-acoustic improvisation. Upon initial listening, the most surprising thing to me was the prominence of the sax. Mr. Weyant is a highly adept player whose free blowing is featured on several tracks...only instead of interacting with a rhythm section, he's playing with layers and layers of things like broken springs, found sounds and various percussion....all played by him. There is so much going on in each piece that this music is much more percussive than most EAI music- even when there's NO percussion being played! The elaborate layering of the different sounds gives the music a constant sense of motion. This cd is the very definition of a "headphone album", and since there is such intricate activity in each piece, repeat listening is mandatory.... yeah, I know what you're thinking...I like quite a bit of EAI, noise, etc., but when I read a review and see the phrases "headphone album", "repeated listening", or "found sounds", the "self-indulgent pile of crap" alarm starts going off.... this is far from the case with Red Coffee/Black Wine. Mr. Weyant has made a stunningly original cd which proves that you can be ambient without being boring, you can play EAI that is soulful, and you can play free jazz without a band. Highly recommended for jazzers and EAI'ers who are afraid of each other. Get over it, and we could have even more music this good.
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well of course i give it five stars...
if you dig freedom/fire music some interesting discussion that evolved from this recording can be found at:
http://freejazz.org/stories.php?story=05/05/02/5131982
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