Ginger Baker - Middle Passage (1990) {Axiom 539 864-2}
Ginger Baker - Middle Passage (1990) {Axiom 539 864-2}
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© 1990 Axiom / Island Records | 539 864-2
Rock / Art Rock / Ethnic Fusion / Jazz / Drums
Awesome mixture of exotic acoustic and electric elements, rhythms and tonalities. Ginger Baker is a world traveler and this has heavy leanings to African themes but Bill Laswell's production brings it out of the village into the studio, but just barely.
The drumming and percussion throughout the album goes beyond the boundries of both rock and world music. Bass duties are handled by Laswell and Jah Wobble, often both on the same track. Exotic guitars played by tonemaster Nicky Skopeltis. No vocals, no need for them here.In fact I've played this recording since it first came out (circa 1989) but not until writing this review now did the abscence of vocals even dawn on me.
Middle Passage is an album of six masterful arrangements of various intensities from bold to simmering. I like Laswell's production style but on some recordings he gets to "loop happy" and looses ground, but not here this is a great meeting of real playing with only a slight sense of production.
Ginger Baker is one of the most recognisable names in drumming the world over, despite over a 10 year sabbatical from the music industry (mid 70's until mid-late 80's) and also being an artist with integrity, taste and intention.
For those of you who are aware of his sublime Horses and Trees album Middle Passage is like the next progressive step in strength and intensity but with relativly similar exotic acoustic/electric instrumentation.
The overall picture presented by the music? maybe something like having a big bowl of saucy spiced hot stew inside the flame and insense lit brick and clay walls of an African-Asian hashish lunchoenette den.
Ginger Baker - Middle Passage (1990) {Axiom 539 864-2}
tracklist:
01 - Mektoub
02 - Under Black Skies
03 - Time Be Time
04 - Alamout
05 - Basil
06 - South to the Dust
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Ginger Baker / Middle Passage
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EAC extraction logfile from 9. October 2014, 5:56
Ginger Baker / Middle Passage
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3 | 14:06.60 | 5:04.03 | 63510 | 86312
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==== Log checksum A26EA3459235555E0ED746643A9FBD2C1349967C30066C8534712AB5824A322B ====
Ginger Baker - Middle Passage (1990) {Axiom 539 864-2}
Ginger Baker - Middle Passage (1990) {Axiom 539 864-2}
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