Trumpet

by Greg Kelley

Trumpet cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Meniscus
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 41:47
  • Community rating: 3.68/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The American avant-garde musician presents an incredibly demanding, entirely unaccompanied exploration of extended trumpet techniques. 'Trumpet' completely discards traditional jazz structures and recognizable melody, utilizing the instrument to produce hissing, metallic friction, and sparse, microscopic squeaks. It is a highly respected, deeply challenging masterclass in acoustic reductionism within the electroacoustic improvisation community.

Genres

Descriptors: noisy, improvisation, atonal, avant-garde, instrumental, experimental, minimal, unaccompanied-solo

Tracklist

  1. Untitled (2:30)
  2. Eyelids Play Their Game (Or: Tiny Blue Tongues Of Suffocated Birds) (2:07)
  3. Inhale Stale Air (Or: Just Outlines, Just Hollow Bodies, No Color) (1:27)
  4. Untitled (3:06)
  5. If I Ever Have Occassion To Write Out My Last Words In Blood, I'll Write This (0:17)
  6. Untitled (2:40)
  7. ---------------------- (3:16)
  8. Untitled (3:46)
  9. Untitled (5:52)
  10. I Am Not About To Rip Masks Off Anyone (10:11)
  11. Untitled (3:32)
  12. How Can I Ever Misplace You (3:03)

Credits

  • Jaron Childs - cover [cover art]

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