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Soul at the Hands of the Machine
Guillermo E. Brown
Soul at the Hands of the Machine
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Jazz, Pop
 
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Fresh from his work with Matthew Shipp for the landmark release — "Nu Bop", tenor sax giant David S. Ware, and electronica supergroup — Spring Heel Jack, multi- instrumentalist/percussionist — Brown now steps out on his own. ...  more »

     
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All Artists: Guillermo E. Brown
Title: Soul at the Hands of the Machine
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Thirsty Ear
Original Release Date: 1/1/2000
Re-Release Date: 4/9/2002
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Jazz, Pop
Styles: Electronica, Avant Garde & Free Jazz
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 700435711822

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Fresh from his work with Matthew Shipp for the landmark release
"Nu Bop", tenor sax giant David S. Ware, and electronica supergroup
Spring Heel Jack, multi- instrumentalist/percussionist
Brown now steps out on his own.
Brown's "Soul at the Hands of the Machine" creates a signature
sound through the landscape of groove based electro-jazz mixing
elements of avant-jazz, hip hop and Afro-Cuban elements.
"Soul at the Hands of the
Machine" features Brown s
flowering ensemble, including
multi-instrumentalist,
downtown heavyweight
Daniel Carter (Project
Logic, Other Dimensions in
Music); spoken word
songstress Latasha
Natasha Diggs (Straight
Ahead Records, Bill
Laswell, Ryuchi
Sakamoto); guitar wizard
Morgan Michael Craft (,
Michelle Ndege Ocello);
emerging saxophone colossus
Andre Vida (Anthony
Braxton), future bass doctor
Shahzad Ismaily
(Graham Haynes) and
engineer Chris Flam who
has developed a knack for
mixing live and electronic
sounds in his work with DJ
Spooky, Matthew Shipp,
and William Parker.Hailed by The New York
Times, Village Voice,
JazzTimes and The
Washington City Paper as
"aggressive," having a
"smart sense of pyrotechnics,"
and "briskly explosive,"
Brown is poised to
make mind-blowing sound
waves in 2002.

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An absolute diamond, Genius, Brilliant! Amazing - Wow!
T. Klaase | Orange Park, Florida United States | 04/30/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This record is a fresh air to a drowning man. Inspiring. Innovative. Smart compositions. Talent w/ technology. Herbie Hancock in the future times 10! Check it out! Buy it! Records like this make buying 3/4 CD's a week worth while. Lunch for your ears."
Future of Jazz
Jan P. Dennis | Monument, CO USA | 04/25/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)

"It's always dangerous being identified with the future of anything, let alone jazz, that rather hidebound original American music. Yet Matthew Shipp, the forward thinking pianist and proprietor of the Thirsty Ear label seems to be delivering on his promise to provide jazz in a genuinely original setting, with visionary releases like Light Made Lighter by Craig Taborn and Spring Heel Jack's Masses.Soul at the Hands of the Machine by drummer Guillermo Brown strikes me as the most successful of the handful of jazz-oriented Thirsty Ear releases. Sounding like jazz meets hip-hop filtered through industrial trance and world music, the music is really uncatagorizable, though eminently listenable (usually--Inside the Purple Box seems a little over the top).Really, this is quite remarkable music. Maybe too out there for some (perhaps most) listeners, but perfectly suitable of the adventurous."