Album Reviews
1. Planet One 4.48 (RealAudio sample)
2. Penumbra 6.18
3. Transonic 9.17 (RealAudio sample)
4. Second Skin 8.03
5. Volleys 5.45
6. Tableau 5.12
7. Kinesis 3.36 (RealAudio sample)
8. Skyhook 9.38
All compositions
by Whit Dickey, except 4 & 7,
which are by the group ©1997 p+c 1998 AUM Fidelity
Rob Brown - alto sax, flute
Chris Lightcap - bass
Recorded on January 17;
Mixed and Mastered on January 23, 1997 *
at Systems Two Studio, Brooklyn.
Engineer: Michael Marciano.
Cover painting & design by Ming@409
* 1998 is printed on the album itself
as the recording date; that is a mistake.
This
is Whit Dickey's first album as a leader. In 1996, Whit parted ways with
the stunning groups of David S. Ware and Matthew Shipp - of which he was
full part and parcel - under circumstances that provided stories which all
involved are now able to laugh about. After a period of understandable dismay,
Whit was inspired anew by aligning himself with his renewed compositional
urges. At the top of the new year, armed with an album's worth of freshly
formed lines, he went into the studio with long-time associate Rob Brown
and then relative new-comer to the scene Chris Lightcap. The results of
that session are here on Transonic. Fully engaging, the tunes are fleshed
into their final form with extremely giving performances by all. Whit Dickey's
addictive sense of time is ON, and his dancerly touch up top of the kit
fully meshed with his full-bodied low end drive. Rob Brown - one of this
generation's most gifted alto sax improvisors - burns like an axious mofo
when he is driven, and he is burning all through this album. In our opionion,
these are some of his greatest performances ever captured on tape (yoho,
check 'The Peach Orchard' as well). Young Chris Lightcap on bass fully proved
himself worthy of this company at the time, and has continued to do so (check
him on 'A Cloud Of Black Birds'). Man, I love trios (and thanks again D.).
And this is a great trio album!-SJ