Double Holy House

Double Holy House
Double Holy House
Live album by Cecil Taylor
Released 1993
Recorded September 22 & 23, 1990
Genre Free jazz
Length 61:29
Label FMP
Producer Jost Gebers
Cecil Taylor chronology
2Ts for a Lovely T
(1990)		 Double Holy House
(1990)		 Nailed
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars[1]

Double Holy House is a live album of a solo piano concert by Cecil Taylor recorded live on September 23, 1990 at The Bechstein Concert Hall in Berlin, with added lyrics and percussion which were recorded on the previous day. The album was released on the FMP label.

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states "Double Holy House begins with one of Taylor's most beautiful and haunting ballads, constructed of minor thirds and diminished sevenths. It's full of half-parsed chord voicings and shimmering glissandi. It's six minutes of inwardly focused, blessed-out pianism. The impenetrability of the work's vocal aspect opens part two and rolls out of Taylor's half-spoken, half-whispered text; it is unaccompanied for about six minutes and gradually percussion and piano begin to enter the text as dimensional sound effects and eventually take it over. By the 15-minute mark, the piano has completely replaced both voice and percussion instruments and becomes one of Taylor's more architecturally minded improvisations. His reliance on the middle to lower registers here creates virtual buildings in sound that he erects one after another until he exhausts his tonal possibilities in one series of motifs and begins another for approximately 50 minutes, until the entire work just vanishes from its dizzying heights of arpeggiated ecstasy".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Cecil Taylor.
  1. "Double Holy House" - 6:34
  2. "Squash People/Eyes Within the Voice/Eucalyptus Intersection and ..." - 54:55
  • Recorded live on September 23, 1990 at The Bechstein Concert Hall in Berlin. Lyrics and percussion recorded on September 22, 1990 in Berlin.

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Allmusic Review
  2. ^ Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed 21 July 2009

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