Edition of 400 copies solo album from drummer and multi-instrumentalist Chris Corsano. Hard to think of anyone else who has done more to advance and explode free music modes than Corsano over the past few years. He’s the model musician, constantly playing, pushing his own abilities, expanding his armory of instruments and approaches, putting himself in new challenging situations (from The Puke Eaters to Bjork) and with a get-in-the-van work ethic that would shame Black Flag. No one, in the wake of Sonic Youth, has worked so hard to emphatically establish the common ground between improvised music – playing free – and the original rock-to-roll impulse. Still, I probably enjoy him best when he’s in playing situations that have the closest relationship to free jazz and his recent duos have been particularly mind-expanding, with a high-wire show in Edinburgh with Heather Leigh as Jailbreak being one of the best gigs of the past 12 months. Another Dull Dawn functions as the most complete overview off alla his assorted interests and experiments to date. Alongside the ‘usual’ insane free drumming bouts we get extended investigations into his work with reeds and plastic pipes – sometimes simultaneously – while he factors in aspects of his keyboard work (first showcased on Blood Pressure), violin-strings banjo, toys, electric cables and F/X, gongs, melodica, triangle, clarinet and more. It makes for some of the most feral, folk-primitive yet conceptually sophisticated free music recordings to orbit the world of ‘jazz’ outside of the back catalogue of Mr Arthur Doyle himself. The live drum/reed tracks are just insane, shrieking single-note blues wailing over fists of hardcore time (alla these noise dopes that would claim noise as having no relationship to black music and blues oughta stick their heads up their own ass while being forced to listen to this alongside the music of Jimi Hendrix, the entire Cecil Taylor back catalogue and the late Coltrane quintet), while some of the keyboard/drum sections sound like Nanjo Asahito re-mixing some small group Sun Ra cosmo-punk jam. Beautiful, open, free music with roots that run from deep in the past to far in the future. Unbelievable and highly recommended.
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PAST TIP OF THE TONGUES
