Stefan Dill 6 and 12 string electric guitars, flamenco guitar | Jack Wright saxophones | John Dikeman saxophones | John Jasnoch guitar | Dave Wayne percussion | Dave Nielsen bass
“One of the principal attractions for me in performing improvised music is the telepathy, the connectivity that can occur between accomplished improvisers: the immediate call and response, the ability to find each others pitches, the simultaneity of rhythmic gestures and phrases.” — Stefan Dill
Track List
2. Circle Of Skies
3. The Serpent Mat
4. Another Quick One
5. Zakil Amek’El (Light That Lasts)
6. Dance, O Precious Jade, O Precious Turqoise
8. Razor House
9. Remembrance
10. Sleeping In Fire
11. In Xochtil, In Cuicatl (Flower And Song)
12. Sing, Heart Of Joy download
~ ALL MATERIAL 100% IMPROVISED ~
“Flower and Song” is an album of all duets featuring New Mexican Guitar virtuoso Stefan Dill. Complete album info may be found at Stefan Dill’s website, Norumba.
“Although Dikeman’s sound is equally aggressive [as fellow saxophonist Jack Wright, ed.] , he uses longer connected and spiraling lines to convey similar feelings of structural abandon. Dikeman’s playing on the closing number is filled with heavy doses of rampaging fire.” — Frank Rubolino, Cadence Magazine, June 2001.
“The pièce de résistance of the album is the splendid “Zakil Amak’El (Light That Lasts)” with Dikeman, a beautifully crafted nine and a half minutes, after which the duos with drums and bass come as something of light relief.” — Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic, Fall 2003.
Download
This download consists of one 91.35MB zip file containing the complete track list in 192kbps MP3 format along with album art in high resolution JPG format.
Sku: Zerx029
In December 2000, my good friend Mark Weber released Flower And Song (Zerx 029), a collection of various duos, all fully improvised.
One of the principal attractions for me in performing improvised music is the telepathy, the connectivity that can occur between accomplished improvisers: the immediate call and response, the ability to find each others pitches, the simultaneity of rhythmic gestures and phrases – all while hopefully making some compelling music – is what makes improvisation work or not. In short,”chemistry”. The potential to reach that chemistry, that magic which makes all music “happen”, is for me at its greatest in improvised music, because without standard song form, everything rests on the interplay. It is music at its most naked, stripped to essentials – it either happens or it doesn’t. Whether it does here or not is for the listener to decide and enjoy and perplex over.
– Stefan Dill