Bobby Previte - Counterclockwise: Fragments (2017)

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Title: Counterclockwise: Fragments
Year Of Release: 2017
Label: Rank Hypocrisy
Genre: Jazz, Modern Creative
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 62:01
Total Size: 537 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Fragment 1 (08:13)
02. Fragment 2 (05:07)
03. Fragment 3 (05:46)
04. Fragment 4 (06:57)
05. Fragment 5 (04:48)
06. Fragment 6 (12:08)
07. Fragment 7 (05:39)
08. Fragment 8 (03:48)
09. Fragment 9 (09:34)

Some years back I put together this fantastic band to do one European tour. The music I conceived for us to play was a bit bizarre: I went back through all my music, everything I had ever written, and took a fragment from each. Sometimes it was a bass line, sometimes a harmony or a theme, or parts of those. Then I pasted them up in no particular order. The musicians could play any fragment in any key and in any tempo they chose. Now this does sound like a recipe for chaos, but when you have great improvisers, then it all somehow works out. As we got familiar with the 'roadmap' it melded together more and more - people would play a fragment together, but someone else would be playing a different fragment, at a different tempo, or key.
Oh, and, instead of playing acoustic drums, I played electronic drum pads.
Yes this was a bit crazy, but when we were in Vienna we went into a studio and recorded these tracks, which were never released. Here they are now.