Cecil Taylor - Silent Tongues
Cecil Taylor - piano [click here to see more vinyl featuring Cecil Taylor]
1 LP, standard sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Live
Record Press : Pallas
Label : ORG Music
Original Label : Freedom
Recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1974
Engineered by Stephan Sulke
Produced by Alan Bates
Remastered by Infrasonic Sound by Dave Gardner
Originally released in 1975
Reissued in 2019
Tracks :
Side A:
- Abyss (First Movement), Petals & Filaments (Second Movement), Jitney (Third Movement)
- Crossing (Fourth Movement, Part One)
Side B:
- Crossing (Fourth Movement, Part Two)
- After All (Fifth Movement)
- Jitney No. 2
- After All, No. 2
Reviews :
"This is a classic Cecil Taylor solo concert, performed at the 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival. Taylor plays his five-movement work "Silent Tongues," along with a couple of brief encores. To simplify in explaining what he was doing at this point of time, it can be said that Taylor essentially plays the piano like a drum set, creating percussive and thunderous sounds that are otherworldly and full of an impressive amount of energy and atonal ideas. Many listeners will find these performances to be quite difficult but it is worth the struggle to open up one's perceptions as to what music can be." AllMusic Review by Scott Yanow
Ratings :
AllMusic 5/5 , Discogs 4.33/5