- Audio CD (18 Mar 2002)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Leo
- ASIN: B00000G65W
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 943,768 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Prologue And Ten Piano Oracles: 1 |
| 2. Prologue And Ten Piano Oracles: 2 |
| 3. Prologue And Ten Piano Oracles: 3 |
| 4. Prologue And Ten Piano Oracles: 4 |
| 5. Prologue And Ten Piano Oracles: 5 |
| 6. Prologue And Ten Piano Oracles: 6 |
| 7. Prologue And Ten Piano Oracles: 7 |
| 8. Prologue And Ten Piano Oracles: 8 |
| 9. Prologue And Ten Piano Oracles: 9 |
| 10. Prologue And Ten Piano Oracles: 10 |
| 11. Prologue And Ten Piano Oracles: 11 |
| 12. Le Mans Piano |
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One thing I am certain of is that this record is not for everyone. However, I have given it 5 stars because I, not as a critic but as a simple listener, have found it to be absolutely stunning, virtuosic and thoroughly unlike anything I have ever heard in my life before.
It would not come as a surprise to anyone to whom I played this album without giving them details about it, for them to learn it was recorded on Leo Records. After all, who else could have let Sakis Papadimitriou record his great feats of "pianistic imagination", as it is coined in the liner notes, alongside the likes of Sun Ra, Anthony Braxton and other avant-garde pioneers? It might come as a surpise to those listeners though that the instrument Papadimtriou singlehandedly uses is a piano.
What is so remarkable about this is that Sakis Papadimitriou is opening up a whole unexplored world with his "prepared piano" which sounds like a kora, an oud and a guitar simultaneously. Some of these sounds can never be understood or heard elsewhere unless one plays this album straight through in a dark room on huge stereo amplifiers!
Perhaps it is not just the music but the names he chooses for his songs, the picture on the front and the liner notes . There is generally this aura of ancient Greek mysticism, and a prophetic tradition being carried on in this lone advocate of complete musical individuality, that adds even more to the music itself, and supplements the remarkable feel that we are sharing in some secret rite only witnessed by a few over the ages. For jazz purists, this album may well be viewed with scorn and condescension but then, what do you expect?
I would like to recommend this album to all who are searching for something but have not yet found it, to all who believe in spontaneity and hope,and to all who are mystified by much so-called "innovative" music and wish to see music in a genuine, not false, light.Also, considering that Papadimtriou's vast and varied discography is mostly either long out of print or unavailable in the Western world ( apart from Greece), I would seize these few editions which are available swiftly, before they become known only to a few.
It would not come as a surprise to anyone to whom I played this album without giving them details about it, for them to learn it was recorded on Leo Records. After all, who else could have let Sakis Papadimitriou record his great feats of "pianistic imagination", as it is coined in the liner notes, alongside the likes of Sun Ra, Anthony Braxton and other avant-garde pioneers? It might come as a surpise to those listeners though that the instrument Papadimtriou singlehandedly uses is a piano.
What is so remarkable about this is that Sakis Papadimitriou is opening up a whole unexplored world with his "prepared piano" which sounds like a kora, an oud and a guitar simultaneously. Some of these sounds can never be understood or heard elsewhere unless one plays this album straight through in a dark room on huge stereo amplifiers!
Perhaps it is not just the music but the names he chooses for his songs, the picture on the front and the liner notes . There is generally this aura of ancient Greek mysticism, and a prophetic tradition being carried on in this lone advocate of complete musical individuality, that adds even more to the music itself, and supplements the remarkable feel that we are sharing in some secret rite only witnessed by a few over the ages. For jazz purists, this album may well be viewed with scorn and condescension but then, what do you expect?
I would like to recommend this album to all who are searching for something but have not yet found it, to all who believe in spontaneity and hope,and to all who are mystified by much so-called "innovative" music and wish to see music in a genuine, not false, light.Also, considering that Papadimtriou's vast and varied discography is mostly either long out of print or unavailable in the Western world ( apart from Greece), I would seize these few editions which are available swiftly, before they become known only to a few.
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