Search - Keith Tippett :: Friday the 13th

Good Composition, Terrible Recording

snowleopard | Oregon | 08/09/2001

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Simply put, this excellent composition of contemporary piano is almost ruined by a mono (or so it sounds), and very weak recording. Captured during a live recording in Japan, the music lives up to it's title, concentrating on deep, dissonant tones from the bottom end of the piano. Trippett really captures a feel of darkess and gloom with his playing. But sadly, the recording sounds as if someone about 100 feet away with a tape deck recorded it. The recording sounds mono, and much of the music, especially when moving, suffers from bad phase cancellation and a general poor recording, and that's really too bad, as this could have been a great work. Best advice: Listen to the audio clip. If you like the music, the rest of the CD is like this. But the weak sound is only a slightly inferior sound quality as what's on the CD."