Reviews that mention Stan Adler
January 31, 2005
Above Our Heads The Sky Splits Open
SLAM Productions
Stan Adler/Paul Chauncy/Jon Lloyd/Rob Palmer/Phil Wachsmann
Apparitions
Leo Records
By Ken Waxman
January 31, 2005
Saxophones, strings and samples unite these two British sessions that advance different strategies to adapt these juxtaposed textures to improvised music. The quintet featured on Apparitions does achieves its objectives, but very much on its own limited terms. With ancillary musicians on tap, the five players that make up ZAUM dont do as well however, except for a final, spectacular, 20-minute track, which, depending on your predilections may or may not redeem the CD. MORE