Alphaville Suite
Alphaville Suite | ||||
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Studio album by William Parker Double Quartet | ||||
Released | 2007 | |||
Recorded | January 4 & 5, 2007 | |||
Studio | Leon Lee Dorsey Studio, New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 72:09 | |||
Label | RogueArt ROG 017 | |||
Producer | William Parker | |||
William Parker chronology | ||||
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Alphaville Suite (subtitled Music Inspired by the Jean Luc Godard Film) is an album by bassist and composer William Parker's Double Quartet inspired by the film Alphaville (1965), which was recorded in 2007 and released on the RogueArt label.[1][2]
Reception
All About Jazz stated "For this project, he paired his quartet with a modified string quartet (violin, viola and two cellos) for a strong set of compositions. The "double quartet" is thoroughly integrated—this isn't a simple lush-string-backup horn session. As with writing for a singer or arranging well-known pop songs, Parker proves again that he's skilled at gathering the components needed for a project and then making excellent use of them".[3]
Pitchfork's review observed "There are moments of sharp dissonance and unconventional technique-- strings played on the frog or with the back of the bow, saxes overblown and honked, but these are balanced by passages of strong forward momentum and clarity".[4]
Track listing
All compositions by William Parker except as indicated
- "Alphaville Main Theme" – 6:02
- "Journey to the End of the Night" – 11:00
- "Natasha's Theme I" – 2:05
- "Interrogation" – 2:50
- "Alpha 60" – 9:45
- "Doctor Badguy" – 14:08
- "Oceanville Evening" – 3:05
- "Civilization of Light" – 16:49
- "Outlands" – 6:57
- "Natasha's Theme II" – 2:08
Personnel
- William Parker – bass
- Leena Conquest – vocals (tracks 3 & 10)
- Lewis Barnes – trumpet
- Rob Brown – alto saxophone
- Mazz Swift – violin
- Jessica Pavone – viola
- Julia Kent, Shiau-Shu Yu – cello
- Hamid Drake – drums
References
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- Through Acceptance of the Mystery Peace (1974-1979)
- Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy (1995)
- Painter's Spring (2000)
- O'Neal's Porch (2000)
- Piercing the Veil (with Hamid Drake, 2000)
- Raining on the Moon (2001)
- Bob's Pink Cadillac (2001)
- Scrapbook (2002)
- Luc's Lantern (2004)
- Summer Snow (with Hamid Drake, 2005)
- Alphaville Suite (2007)
- Corn Meal Dance (2007)
- Petit Oiseau (2007)
- Beyond Quantum (with Anthony Braxton and Milford Graves, 2008)
- Uncle Joe's Spirit House (2010)
- Out of This World's Distortions (with Gerald Cleaver and Craig Taborn, 2010)
- The Gowanus Session (with Thollem McDonas and Nels Cline, 2012)
- 2 Blues for Cecil (with Andrew Cyrille and Enrico Rava, 2021)
- Melodic Art–Tet (with Charles Brackeen, Ahmed Abdullah, and Roger Blank, 1974)
- In Order to Survive (1993)
- Harras (with Derek Bailey and John Zorn, 1993)
- Sunrise in the Tone World (1995)
- The Peach Orchard (1997 & 1998)
- Posium Pendasem (1998)
- Mass for the Healing of the World (1998)
- 2 Days in April (with Fred Anderson, 1999)
- Mayor of Punkville (1999)
- Fractured Dimensions (1999)
- Raincoat in the River (2001)
- Eloping with the Sun (with Joe Morris and Hamid Drake, 2001)
- I Plan to Stay a Believer (2001, 2002, 2007, & 2008)
- Spontaneous (2002)
- Historic Music Past Tense Future (with Peter Brötzmann and Milford Graves, 2002)
- Sound Unity (2004)
- Requiem (2004)
- For Percy Heath (2005)
- Wood Flute Songs (2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, & 2012)
- Double Sunrise Over Neptune (2007)
- Farmers by Nature (with Gerald Cleaver and Craig Taborn, 2008)
- Tribute to Albert Ayler Live at the Dynamo (with Roy Campbell Jr., Joe McPhee, and Warren Smith, 2008)
- Winter Sun Crying (2009)
- Medicine Buddha (with Billy Bang, 2009)
- Love and Ghosts (with Gerald Cleaver and Craig Taborn, 2011)
- Essence of Ellington (2012)