FROM THE LINER NOTES
Worldwide, the second digital offering by the critically acclaimed Tina Marsh & the Creative Opportunity Orchestra, tries to deal with the non-comprehensive nature of today’s societal dialogs and directions. We hear on this landmark documentation musicians whose understanding of the many variants of musical experience translates into the meticulous sensitivity of aural craftsmanship.
First of all, on this recording, Ms Marsh’s vocal implications cover completely new ground, ground not covered in her epic CO2 recording, The Heaven Line. The supple, pure timbre of her voice on this recording will certainly awaken, for the listener, some of the same chilling and evocative work we’ve come to expect from her and evidenced by her landmark suite “Mezzaluna, Too”.
On another level, the listener will be startled by this music’s asymmetrical and symmetrical incantations. Here, the mystical truth hidden within the warm embrace of the jazz/blues idiom is completely fused with the empirical objectives of the finest European and Eastern musics. Of course, in keeping with CO2’s premise and charter, all the compositions were written by the group’s very talented composers…
This group forges a new optimism with this recording, one very much indebted to traditional musical forms of all variety at the same time introducing it’s listeners to new expressions of sound and lyric – offering us a non-speculative rebuttal to the perverse relativism, myopic provincialism, and terminal ‘showboat-isms’ so prevalent in today’s most popular art and music.
CHAUNCY ‘BIRDDOG’ LEWIS, III
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