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   January 2001 Vol. 5 No. 2
 
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Artist Supergenerous
Title Supergenerous
Label Bluenote
Reviewer Richard Proplesch
Rating
I know the imprint says Blue Note, and that Supergenerous colleagues Kevin Breit and Cyro Baptista met during a session for sultry songstress Cassandra Wilson. But there’s few listeners that would find any easy, identifiable idioms to make an association with the celebrated record label. Especially when the sly Wilson guests for one of the oddest readings of the familiar cowhand lament “Home On The Range,” skewered here by a detuned banjo with various shakers and hand drums. Or the cosmic blues version of “Love Is All Around” (the theme from the “Mary Tyler Moore Show”) in a fractured reworking that keeps spiraling towards Venus. In fact, most of the music from Brazilian percussionist Baptista and Canadian guitarist Breit has an usually restrained-but-otherworldly property, a unique sound that often creeps into Ry Cooder’s enigmatic soundtracks or Latin Playboys’ bohunk improvs. While Breit conjures some unusual sequence with a mandolin-like stringed instrument, Baptista adds a gourd or rattle or an oud, or all at once, if only to taking the natural resonance of the sound that much farther from reality.

Tasteful choices with miniscule flashes of intensity, but with a gentlemen’s agreement not to sound like anybody else, Supergenerous are low-key compliment to the spate of “new free” and “groove jazz” ensembles that secretly wish they could be as resourceful and outside as this pair. Exceptionally exciting.


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