Desert Mirage

by Alan Silva and the Celestrial Communication Orchestra

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1983
  • Label: IACP
  • Country: France
  • Length: 1:13:13
  • Community rating: 3.77/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Bernard Drouillet, Pascal Morrow, Philippe Sellam, Jacques Marugg, Carl Schlosser, Denis Colin, Henri Grinberg, Antoine Mizrahi, Fran莽ois Leymarie, Aldridge Hansberry, S茅bastien Franck, Jeff Beer, Rosine Feferman, Mike Zwerin, Adrien Bitan, Fran莽ois Cotinaud, Georges Gaumont, Jean Querlier, Francis Gorg茅, Bernard Vitet, Serge Adam, Pierre Faure, Gilles Premel, Itaru Oki, Ron Pittner, Karo, Bruno Girard, Didier Petit, Arthur Doyle, Dom茅nico Criseo

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Alan Silva conducts his sprawling, multi-national ensemble through an incredibly dense, hour-long excursion in massive free-jazz orchestration. The dizzying, uninterrupted improvisation completely dissolves traditional big band hierarchies, resulting in a towering, deeply chaotic avant-garde masterpiece.

Genres

Descriptors: repetitive, rhythmic, experimental, avant-garde, improvisation, long-form, orchestral

Tracklist

  1. Desert Mirage
  2. A D N
  3. After Coda
  4. February The Third (1st Part)
  5. February The Third (2nd Part)
  6. Procession

Credits

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