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Artist:	ESKELIN/ANDREA PARKINS, ELLERY
Title:	Green Bermudas
Label:	EREMITE
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	MTE 002CD

NY tenor saxophonist, who has recorded for Soul Note and Songlines; he also compiled the Tzadik anthology of MSR "song poems" that were originally produced by his father in the 60s: I Died Today: The Music of Rodd Keith."Specifically aligned with neither the faceless new traditionalist bow-ties nor the indiscriminate knee-jerks of the 'mersh 'avant-garde', Mr. Eskelin's work has proven consistently idiosyncratic & increasingly unpredictable...Green Bermudas is a wild & contemporary ass-toss of a record. It pairs the rich, penetrative power of his solo tenor work with the sample skewery of keyboardist Andrea Parkins. This combination is particularly disorientating when the sources of Andrea's samples are 'song-poems' by Mr. Eskelin's father. When a piece like 'Mary Jane's Dilemma' begins, anyone not familiar with the cracked work of the master musicians of MSR studios will feel as though they have dialed into an extra-terrestrial radio station! By either the standards of modern improvisational or 'incredibly strange' music, Green Bermudas is a lot of a record...a testament to the ingenuity & weirdness of the human spirit."

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