Travel Music - Solo
Bass
1. Travel Music 4:34 - Sample
2. Livin' Large 7:13 - Sample
3. Human Being 7:07
4. Nitro, Don't Leave Home Without It 10:28
5. MI 8:15
6. Oil 5:36
7. Zephyr Revisited 3:37 - Sample
8. Alabama 8:06
Recorded August 28 & September 30, 2010. All
tracks recorded, mixed and mastered at Sertso Studio, Woodstock,
NY by Ted Orr
All compositions by Michael Bisio (AMB Music
ASCAP) except Human Being: Charlie Haden (Harmolodic Inc) and
Alabama: John Coltrane (Jowcol Music Inc BMI)
"Overall the album has its own charm, a quality
which emerges from the strong personality of the author, at ease
in his solitary role, between the vanguard and tradition,
between passion for the instrument in its traditional role and
look to the future." - Vittorio Lo Conte, Music Zoom
"This album spells it out for you, in ways that
are exhilarating, breathtaking, moving, and meditative in turn.
Do not miss it." - Grego Applegate Edwards, Gapplegate Guitar
"There is a really huge palate of color, timbre and style on
this release: The fourth track, Nitro, don't leave home without
it, is a trip, and if you can imagine a journey from Mingus to
Joelle Leandre and back over ten and a half minutes, this might
well be the soundtrack. The production on this recording is
really first rate, the bass tone is fat and alive, and there is
a rich array of depth and detail in the colors and textures. An
absorbing release reflecting the heterogeneity of the bassist's
twenty-five year career." - Robert Nairn, Bass World, The
Magazine of the International Society of Bassists
"The first thing one notices is that big rubbery Bisio sound.
His instrument sounds so big and beautiful and he can wrench
some of the most alien sounds from it. But he also can coax some
of the most glorious melodies and make them ring out as clearly
as if they were coming from a guitar or a trumpet. And while
Bisio is one of the finest Free Jazz bassists, even when playing
Free his music still sounds very considered with a lot of
thought going into what's about to come out. Of course, the same
holds true of his composed material." - Robert Iannapollo,
Cadence
"Travel Music, besides being one of the essential and most
austere works of the creative corpus of Michael Bisio, accounts
for the double truth to remind us that art is a journey into the
fullness of being human." - Sergio Piccirilli, el intruso
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