Blue Series Continuum Discography of CDs

Blue Series Continuum music CDs Upon encountering the opening moments of "Pulsar, " the opening cut from Sorcerer Sessions, the listener may feel as if she had purchased the wrong recording. Pianist Matthew Shipp's pronounced chord voicings sound as if they might be lost compositions from Erik Satie's "Rosicrucian" series. When clarinetist Evan Ziporyn and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain enter in a gorgeously entwining series of harmonies and slippery, nearly Hungarian-styled melodic statements, the illusion will seem convincingly complete. Only upon the typing sounds of "Keystroke" countered by electronically manipulated clarinet and piano lines does the feel of the sonic encounter feel like the music of Matthew Shipp. Add to this set bassist William Parker, drummer Gerald Cleaver, and electronica whiz FLAM, and you have a new collective, one not so much interested in the jazz-conversant compositions of Shipp's Equilibrium album, but a collective turning Shipp's compositions into extrapolations of form, content, and Muse-like utterances. As the album continues, through "Light forms," "Urban Shadows," "reformation," "Last Chamber," and other selections, it becomes clear that this is no mere fusion of classical ,jazz, and electronic aesthetics, but a new ethereal body of music that exists outside genre, and attempts to ...