642623800829

Mbefore

Michael Bisio, Karl Berger, Mat Maneri & Whit Dickey

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Cat No: TAO08
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Release Date:  25 March 2022

Label:  Tao Forms

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  642623800829

Genres:  Jazz  Avant-garde  

  • Description

    This Michael Bisio Quartet is a new kindred-spirit assembly featuring the veteran bassist alongside Mat Maneri (viola), Karl Berger (vibraphone) and Whit Dickey (drums). Their melodiously alluring debut album, 'MBefore', features the four virtuoso improvisers communing on a set of original compositions by Bisio & Berger, plus a free-minded take on the standard "I Fall In Love Too Easily".

    From the liner notes by Matthew Shipp: "Michael Bisio is one of the greatest bassists on the planet - but this album isn't about his bass playing. It's about his humanity. Bisio is a thoughtful group leader who has a knack for bringing the right people together and setting them up in such a way that they feel at one with the group dynamic."

    'MBefore' is about the ensemble and its collective consciousness - it's about the group aesthetic, with the resulting sound having a transparent quality. With vibes and viola, there's a sonic clarity, even a kind of sweetness. That clarity and transparency allows the contrapuntal quality of the music to be fully revealed - you can hear everyone's lines at once, and the subtle harmonies created by the crossing of those individual lines.

    Bisio was a member of Don Cherry's band in Paris, he accompanied Cherry to New York City to record Symphony for Improvisers in 1966. And he stayed, recording his own debut album for ESP later that year. Having worked with Carla Bley, Dave Holland, Lee Konitz, John McLaughlin, Sam Rivers, Pharoah Sanders; he also collaborated with Bill Laswell as musical arranger & conductor, thus contributing to albums by Jeff Buckley, Sly & Robbie, Angélique Kidjo, and more.

    Michael Bisio: bass, compositions

    Karl Berger: vibraphone, compositions

    Mat Maneri: viola

    Whit Dickey: drums

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. AC 2.0
      • 2. Sea V 4 WD Part 2
      • 3. Crystal Fire
      • 4. I Fall In Love Too Easily
      • 5. Intravenous Voice
      • 6. R. Henri
      • 7. Sea V 4 WD Part 1
      • 8. Still
      • 9. Um