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	William Hooker, Lee Ranaldo Celestial Answer (Dig) Genres: Alternative Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock A kinetic, avant percussionist and poet, Hooker is one of NY's most important band leaders, having fronted groups that included David Murray and David S. Ware. Ranaldo leads the improv supergroup Text Of Light, whose fluid... more » « less
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All Artists: William Hooker, Lee Ranaldo
Title: Celestial Answer (Dig)
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Table of Elements
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 1/24/2006
Genres: Alternative Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock
Style: Avant Garde & Free Jazz
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 600401102022

Synopsis

Album Description

A kinetic, avant percussionist and poet, Hooker is one of NY's most important band leaders, having fronted groups that included David Murray and David S. Ware. Ranaldo leads the improv supergroup Text Of Light, whose fluid membership includes Hooker, Christian Marclay, Tim Barnes, and Mission Of Burma's Roger Miller (of course, he's also co-founder of the indefatigably experimental Sonic Youth). "The Celestial Answer" contains rays of white guitar noise penetrating clouds of analog synth; molten drumming blasts across free-form poetics. A simple cold-fusion of intuitive interaction and boundless sonic freedom. A blindingly brilliant, elemental force.

CD Reviews

Absolutely brilliant music stalking the boundaries of jazz a

Jan P. Dennis | Monument, CO USA | 04/05/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

". . . only very slightly vitiated by inane vocals.

It would be an absolute shame not to give this remarkable music its due, so you won't find me dissing it. Just for the bonkers soundscape--coming from a duo, no less--it probably deserves five stars: What we've got here is the soundtrack to a lost gonzo Star Trek movie directed by the Cohen Bros.--or some such thing.

You've got to hand it to the lads (Lee Ranaldo, guitar and synth, and William Hooker, traps and percussion): their bizarro conception and spot-on execution, wresting, as it were, the heart of sidereal angst (huh!?) from their two-man playing-production situates them beyond the call of quotidian weirdness into precincts of primal oddity. What does that mean? Even I don't know. Yet the result is a sound palette heretofore unencountered, familiar yet alien; heartfelt yet somehow ice-palace freezing; trippy-hippy gonzo yet approachable and even accessible; mind-bending yet tame.

Music to warm the cockles of stone-cold postmodern alienated hearts."

Sonic Youth genius Ranalado makes a must-owner!

02/15/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Okay, this is Lee Ranaldo for crying out loud! Sonic Youth! I picked it up on [...], and I paid alot more than this for it. get this, chill on a sunday afternoon!"