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Artist:	SILVA & THE SOUND VISION ORCHESTRA, ALAN
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Label:	EREMITE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	MTE 026CD

"On his third CD for Eremite records, Alan Silva is back in front of an orchestra for the first time since 1982's Desert Mirage (I.A.C.P). An iconic figure in the avant-garde for three decades, Silva's contribution to the methodologies & vernacular of large ensemble improvisation is enormous, prefiguring the conductions of Butch Morris & John Zorn's game pieces. His three album 1970 BYG recording Seasons is universally regarded as one of the high water marks in avant-garde jazz. Silva's orchestral pieces offer a broader view of his mad genius than perhaps any other context for his music. They also reveal an artist of uniquely American themes & sources, informed equally by the legacies of Ives, Ra, Ellington & Mingus, developments in the visual arts (namely abstract expressionism), & a preternaturally warped response to the post-WWII American culture of show tunes, film music, radio theater & cold war propaganda. This CD was recorded during the 1999 Vision Festival, a rare chance for Silva to work & extensively rehearse with a band of veteran improvisers, & again present his orchestra music on native soil (a first since 1968). The band's festival performance was plagued by every imaginable technical difficulty, including complete power outages & exploding television sets. They re-assembled in a empty hall one week later to play the spectacularly expansive music heard on this recording. Resolution 57! Twenty-three piece ensemble featuring Silva (conduction, vocals, some synthesizer) & Sabir Mateen, Roy Campbell Jr, Raphe Malik, 'Kidd' Jordan, Joe Daley, Steve Swell, J.D. Parran, Bill Lowe, Rob Brown, Wilbur Morris, Karen Borca, Jackson Krall, et al."

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