Interactive Playlist: Chamber Rock

Hi,

Absolutely lovely ... 

I have never, EVER, looked at EOS or even this, as a "jazz" or "this or that" album. To my ear it is simply impossible, if we just close out eyes and follow the flow of the music ... it has less to do with what kind it is, than it does with its own desire to continue the feeling and the flow. This, could, have been done 100, 200 years ago, and probably was but never "recorded" (in those days in notes) so we could hear the interplay and expression, and we know that existed, when there was so much going on with piano and voice, and other combinations.

For me, and it is a most important feeling, the idea of "chamber rock" is fine, as long as we know what "chamber" meant, but the issue I found here is ... because the term "rock" was used, that the idea of it being actually like "chamber music of the old days, was not the idea or what was meant at all!

There is so much great music out there, that is better judged without a supposed connection to this or that ... which more often than not hurts the artist ... Rypdal for me, is not about "jazz" as much as he is about "classical" (not to mention the incredible number of classical works), even though to our ears, there maybe some jazz musings, which I would think that even Terje might not consider them jazz, by just saying ... it's how the notes come out! Davis Darling, as well, is not exactly known for being a jazz person either, and his early days, with Carlos Nakai (one album specially had DD all over it and made it better) even showed that trying to put a stamp on a player was not the right thing. 

But then, I had stopped putting a stamp on players and their music by the time "progressive music" came around ... I had already heard too many things, and different things by the same person/composer, to ever consider that people were stuck in a time warp, like we put musicians in!