Bill Bruford's Earthworks - Stromboli Kicks- Anthology Vol 2

Bill Bruford's Earthwork's, Stromboli Kicks from Anthology Vol 2.
available Spring 2007 from www.voiceprint.co.uk

Anthology Volume 2 -- the 1990s

This 85 minute DVD is the second in a two volume anthology of previously unreleased concert footage of Bill Bruford's Earthworks, one of the longest lived, best travelled, and most original jazz quartets. This volume chronicles the band's progress through the 1990s from its electronic start to its acoustic renaissance; volume1 does the same for the 2000s. The group was originated as a vehicle for Bruford's unusual and innovative use of electronic percussion, and did much to challenge perceptions about what a drummer should, or should not, be doing in jazz. Filmed on tour in Germany 1991, Japan 1991, and Bulgaria 1999,
Earthworks continues to offer a platform to the brightest and best young players, and has become a "potential model for the 21st century Jazz mainstream" ( Chicago Reader ).

"...represents everything fusion should have been" ( Downbeat )




DVD Track Listing:
Up North
All Heaven Broke Loose
Psalm
Old Song
Stromboli Kicks
Bridge of Inhibition
Emotional Shirt
Candles Still Flicker in Romania's Dark
Nerve
Pigalle
Never The Same Way Once
Some Shiver While He Cavorts
Bridge of Inhibition

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bruford
• Percussion
• Jazz
• Fusion
• Drums
• Earthworks
• Laurence
• Cottle
• Gwilym
• Simcock

[dogend]

Bates and Ballamy...it doesn't get any better than this!

[battalion30]

Bill's rhythm behind the main melody is fucking hypnotic. Beyond amazing.

[Snardbafulator]

I love Bill Bruford to death -- but is this *repeating* crawl not the most annoying thing anybody's ever seen in a professionally-released video. Why do we need press release commentary, let *alone* a history of Bill's involvement in Genesis of all ancient history, while we're watching/listening to the music? And then, after five minutes of this insufferable nonsense, it starts to *repeat*. Buy the video, it shrieks! What -- the music can't make us want to do that on its own?

[satheist]

Django shows that the tenor horn is a jazz instrument. What a solo.

[yannytheman]

Django Bates and Iain Ballamy :-)

[dbeckster]

I'm really sorry, I misunderstood.

[Timothy1357911]

hahahahaa I'm saying that Coltrane and Dolphy sounded good man. I love them. Not a hufe fan of this particular video though.

My two cents.

peace

- Tim

[dbeckster]

What do have against John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy? If you truly loved jazz fusion, you should respect the the musicians that inspired these projects.

[Timothy1357911]

Except they sounded really really good

[dbeckster]

2:37 reminds me of Trane and Dolphy doing Impressions.