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Invisible Nature: Live in Tampere and Berlin | 
| Artists: John Surman, Jack Dejohnette
Label: Ecm
Category: Music
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 206697
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.8 x 0.5
UPC: 044001637629
EAN: 0044001637629
ASIN: B00005Y0LF
Release Date: March 4, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | Mysterium | | • | Rising Tide | | • | Outback Spirits | | • | Underground Movement | | • | Ganges Groove | | • | Fair Trade | | • | Song For World Forgiveness |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Recorded live at the jazz festivals of Tampere and Berlin in November 2000, Invisible Nature is a fabulous album, as rich in unfolding mythic (or storytelling) overtone as it is in its diversely inflected melodic accents and rhythmic drive. With the exception of the concluding "Song For World Forgiveness", which features composer DeJohnette on piano, all of the 75 minutes here are improvised, but in a way that comes across as thoroughly structured and intensely lyrical. Both musicians--who have played together often since their first and until now, only duo recording together, the 1981 The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon--are masters of dynamics. Here, that mastery is enhanced by a sensitive use of electronics. At times, this can give the music the kick and drive of a large ensemble, at other moments underpin an essentially poetic approach to tone colour and phrasing. While there's plenty of poetry here, there's also a healthy bucketful or two of straightahead wailing, with Surman often sounding as intense and expansive as he used to in the Trio days of yore, with Barre Phillips and Stu Martin. A superb, world-ranging document of the current health of jazz at its contemporary best, and as such, recommended without reservation. --Michael Tucker
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| Customer Reviews:
Surprising! September 14, 2002
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this album expecting something like a free open dual improvisation...But it was more, much more.It is surpisingly richly textured: bass lines appear from DeJohnette's Synth drum and Surman proving once more that he is the closest thing Britain has to Garbarek: imaginative, inspired and always open. Both extremes of Thimar ( ECM ) and In Darkness Let me Dwell ( ECM ) slip in and out with something faintly lyrical and spiritual throughout. If this is Jazz, it is that entirely original flavour that ECM have single-handedly created. ECM very rarely fail to deliver. Thoroughly recommended.
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