Search - Cecil Taylor :: Double Holy House

Silent tongues? ha!

03/03/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I took a long time to get inside this performance. Mr. Taylor's gorgeous vocal inflections and entirely sensible and sensuous ritualistic poetry was not my cup of tea when I first bought this. I was impressed by the recording of his piano, and by his amazing, shimmering, pointillistic and incendiary playing, but thought the vocalisations (tracked, along with atmospheric percussion, over his piano solo) were a distraction. But after a few listenings, it really does come together. It's a whole lot of Cecil Taylor, and very passionate and moving."