Author: Medeski Martin & Wood

Release Date: 09-04-2002

Details: Amazon.ca It's possible to admire Medeski, Martin and Wood's craft and guile in pushing against stylistic restraints while recognising that their music isn't quite as much fun as it once was--or that this hugely popular trio may think it is. Full of shaggy cross-textures, plummy grooves and spooky electronic underpinnings, Uninvisible is a lively sonic stew. Once a universe unto themselves, keyboardist John Medeski, drummer Billy Martin and bassist Chris Wood continue to smartly expand their jam-band base, here featuring a brash five-piece horn section from the Brooklyn-based Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, turntablists DJ Olive and DJ P Love and, for a spoken-word number, craggy-voiced Southern rock eccentric Col Bruce Hampton. When Medeski is riding that Hammond organ and the group is taking its patented soulful detours, as on "Pappy Check" and the Booker T-ish "Smoke", all is right with the world. But even with Medeski dabbling on a roomful of other instruments, including the Mellotron, mini-Moog and Arp, the songs don't have a lot of variety. And crowded with effects, the music can bog down in its own abstract logic--though there's no resisting the ping-pong game being played on "Off the Table". The chief rewards of Uninvisible are in the details. Until further notice, a headphone advisory is in effect. --Lloyd Sachs Product description 1 Uninvisible 3:37 2 I Wanna Ride You 3:28 3 Your Name Is Snake Anthony 3:12 4 Pappy Check 2:46 5 Take Me Nowhere 4:06 6 Retirement Song 4:47 7 Ten Dollar High 3:42 8 Where Have You Been? 3:37 9 Reprise 0:37 10 Nocturnal Transmission 6:37 11 Smoke 2:46 12 First Time Long Time 2:52 13 The Edge Of Night 3:53 14 Off The Table 4:15

UPC: 724353587024

EAN: 0724353587024

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood