{"product_id":"610141","title":"Rova - No Favourites! [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo Favorites pays homage to one of the most original creators in improvised music, Lawrence 'Butch' Morris (1947-2013), inventor of Conduction, a method for organizing large-ensemble improvisation that he took to the world. \\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eThe program represents a working relationship that Rova began with Morris in 1988 and also reflects parallel working processes reaching back to the mid-1970s.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eRova do more than simply pay tribute. The quartet's members build on their own work in structured improvisation, incorporate other methods of organization - from graphic scores to conventional notation - and expand their palette from the saxophone quartet to include a string quartet and an electric power trio.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eExtending the possibilities of large-ensemble improvisation, the combined groups create music of both depth and an ever changing surface, the fruit of both intense commitment and a highly creative, heterodox methodology. Like previous Rova expansions, it achieves complex music that both requires and rewards active listening.\\xa0\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eEach of the three extended pieces here includes a high degree of improvisation while embodying different compositional principles, the first and third (Nothing Stopped \/ But a Future and Contours of the Glass Head) employing conduction, the second graphic notation and simultaneity.\u003cp\u003eLawrence Ochs - Nothing Stopped \/ But A Future\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteve Adams\/jon Raskin - The Double Negative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaskin\/adams\/ackley\/ochs - Contours Of The Glass Head\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55167107662209,"sku":"610141","price":16.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/51Buaw9hlZL._SL1500.jpg?v=1768048331","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/610141","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}