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Spillane is an album by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn, composed of three "file-card pieces", as well as a work for voice, string quartet and turntables. It is named after mystery writer Mickey Spillane, whose novels featuring detective Mike Hammer provided the basis for
In particular, Two-Lane Highway is especially noteworthy for guitarists, as the solos from bluesman Albert Collins can certainly make your jaw drop with their beauty. Spillane is probably one of Zorn's easiest albums to listen to, but still it's a challenging listen.
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Spillane is a perfectly dense sonic transfer of a classic film noir, Two-Lane Highway a wonderfully atmospheric feature for Albert Collins with superb contributions from Big John Patton and excellent support from Horvitz, Shannon Jackson and Previte. By far Collins ´best rhythm unit he ever had.
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Spillane is a perfectly dense sonic transfer of a classic film noir, Two-Lane Highway a wonderfully atmospheric feature for Albert Collins with superb contributions from Big John Patton and excellent support from Horvitz, Shannon Jackson
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In particular, Two-Lane Highway is especially noteworthy for guitarists, as the solos from bluesman Albert Collins can certainly make your jaw drop with their beauty. Spillane is probably one of Zorn's easiest albums to listen to, but still it's a challenging listen.
Spillane consists of a twenty-five minute long file card piece (in which Zorn writes different musical sections on cards, then arranges them, creating a series of 'sound blocks'), a two-part eighteen minute blues piece written for and featuring Albert Collins, and an avant-garde song featuring a ton of quick-cut transitions, with a Japanese ...
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View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1987 Vinyl release of "Spillane" on Discogs.
