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オーネット率いるプライム・タイム・バンドの原型となった70年代半ばの名盤が待望のCD化。バーン・ニックス,ジャマラディーン・タクマらを迎えて繰り広げられるリズムとメロディの快楽は,いわゆるフリー・ファンク系サウンドとの共通点も多い。
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Culled from the same 1975 session which produced Ornette Coleman's lone A&M release,
Dancing in Your Head, the music on
Body Meta bears a striking resemblance to Captain Beefheart's Magic Band on
Trout Mask Replica, whose clashing guitars and ritualistic rhythms were an obvious corollary for Coleman's new band Prime Time. And while Coleman, like Beefheart, also maintained a tacit relationship to traditional rural blues (as on the Bo Diddley-styled changes of "Voice Poetry"), in truth, the raucous, parallel streams of rhythm, melodic counterpoint, and clashing chordal figures, as featured on "Home Grown" and "Macho Woman," more nearly resemble the collective fury of the Master Musicians of Joujouka than any rock or funk band you care to name. Still, electric bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma and drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson manage to imply traditional backbeats and melodic vamps without necessarily falling into any discernible grooves for too long, even as guitarists Bern Nix and Charles Ellerbee function as a mini-string section, feeding Coleman a continual stream of melodic echoes and harmonic juxtapositions. But for all the ensemble density, it is the clarion call of Coleman's alto saxophone that provides most of the interest on
Body Meta.
--Chip Stern