I let a few days go by without updating my blog - shame on me! As penance, I'm going to do something a little more structured with it for a while. I've been listening to Hiromi Uehara's album Time Control quite a bit lately, so just for the heck of it I'm going to go through the album one track per day, and just, well, write about it.
Hiromi is a Japanese jazz pianist, active today (Time Control came out in 2007). The lineup for the record sounds like any one of a bunch of classic 70s jazz fusion records: drums, bass, electric guitar, and piano/synthesizer. As the name suggests, the album is all about time: there are songs in odd meters, incredibly complicated manipulations of those meters, and all the songs are performed with deadly rhythmic precision. The title might be an homage to Dave Brubeck's classic album Time Out, which featured songs in a number of different time signatures, which was a very bold move at the time (1959).
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