Track Listing
1. Quick Match
2. Flights
3. Red Flash
4. Silver Tails
5. Chrysanthemums
6. Hanabi
7. Flair
8. Flare
9. Ring Starmines
10. Dark Fire
11. Snake In The Grass
12. Battle In The Clouds
13. Safe And Sane
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Contributing Artists: | Kaiser, Henry & Derek Bailey | | Producer: | Henry Kaiser | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Proper | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
Personnel: Derek Bailey (guitar); Henry Kaiser (guitar, baritone & 12-string guitars, 6-string bass).Derek Bailey is the British elder statesman of guitar improvisation. Guitarists from Jim O'Rourke to Fred Frith would not play as they do if Bailey hadn't been working his explorations over the past forty-plus years. Teamed up here with another of his disciples, the multifaceted Henry Kaiser, the two pluck, scrape, coax, tickle, rub and slam all manner of sound out of their instruments. Theirs is the architecture of pure evocative sound. The thirteen improvised pieces cover the gamut of emotions--by turns sly, sassy, scary, and spiritual. Their skills as improvisers also include the ability to listen and empathize. These are truly duets, in the fullest sense of the word, as these two men play off each other with an immediacy borne of their supreme talent as both players and listeners.
Editorial Reviews
4 Stars - Very Good - ...Gorgeously recorded, it's chock full of the kind of brilliant timbral investigations that Bailey has been picking at for the last three decades: combinations of ringing harmonics, scrapes, open strings and machete clusters...
Down Beat (10/01/1995)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...Every speck of sound is thrown into stark relief, until they reach the last ditch with Safe and Sane, whacking volume up and laying waste to all previous tender scrabbling...
Q (09/01/1995)
...pervasively dissonant, angular, arrhythmic and undeniably bizarre....These two guitarists engage in a kind of call-and-response with one musician presenting an idea and the other developing...
Option (09/01/1995)
This album of improvised duo pieces from two of the most diverse guitar talents around is sure to provoke extreme reactions....Bailey and Kaiser's electro-acoustic antics are full of jagged edges, arrythmic picking and cantankerous chordwork...
Dirty Linen (02/01/1996)
4 Stars - Very Good - ...Gorgeously recorded, it's chock full of the kind of brilliant timbral investigations that Bailey has been picking at for the last three decades: combinations of ringing harmonics, scrapes, open strings and machete clusters...Q (9/95, p.111) - 4 Stars - Excellent - ...Every speck of sound is thrown into stark relief, until they reach the last ditch with Safe and Sane, whacking volume up and laying waste to all previous tender scrabbling...Option (9-10/95, p.93) - ...pervasively dissonant, angular, arrhythmic and undeniably bizarre....These two guitarists engage in a kind of call-and-response with one musician presenting an idea and the other developing...Dirty Linen (2-3/96. p.79) - This album of improvised duo pieces from two of the most diverse guitar talents around is sure to provoke extreme reactions....Bailey and Kaiser's electro-acoustic antics are full of jagged edges, arrythmic picking and cantankerous chordwork...
Down Beat (10/01/1995)
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