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Perceptual | 
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| Artist: Brian Blade Fellowship
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music
Buy New: $16.98
New (39) Used (9) from $6.48
Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 63336
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 23571
UPC: 724352357123
EAN: 0724352357123
ASIN: B00004RCAG
Release Date: April 11, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Perceptual - Brian Blade, Cowhred, Jon | | • | Evinrude-Fifty (Trembling) | | • | Reconciliation - Brian Blade, Cowherd, Jon | | • | Crooked Creek - Brian Blade, Cowhred, Jon | | • | Patron Saint of Girls | | • | The Sunday Boys (Improvisation) - Brian Blade, Walden, Myron | | • | Variations of a Bloodline: From the Same Blood/Fellowship (Like ...) | | • | Steadfast | | • | Trembling |
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Amazon.com
As a rule, drummers don't make good bandleaders, because nobody wants to hear drum solos all the time. But what makes Louisiana-born Brian Blade special is that he is more of a colorist than a showman, a drummer who, like Billy Higgins, prefers to set moods that go with the grooves. Perceptual is his second outing with the Fellowship ensemble and is a satisfying follow-up to the band's Blue Note debut. With Myron Walden and Melvin Butler on saxophones and bass clarinet, Chris Thomas on bass, Daniel Lanois, Dave Easley, and Kurt Rosenwinkel on steel and electric guitars, and Jon Cowherd on keyboards, Blade and company create jazz textures that evoke America's wide-open spaces. Think of Pat Metheny's Bright Size Life and American Garage and you'll get the band's futuristic folk vibe on the title cut and the sly, shifting tempos of "Crooked Creek" and the three-part suite, "Variations of A Bloodline"--a poignant, musical comment on ethnic strife. Blade's melodic gifts got him work with Joshua Redman, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, and Joni Mitchell, who lends her wispy vocals to "Steadfast"--an elegiac meditation on the late-1990s rash of U.S. school shootings--and the CD's coda, "Trembling." If you ever plan to travel across the U.S., this recording will make an excellent soundtrack. --Eugene Holley Jr.
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Wonderful and Unlike Anything Else! August 27, 2008
I got this when it first came out and loved it from the very beginning. Strange as it may sound I find it haunting but not dark. These pieces are so unique as to almost constitute the founding of a new genre, in my mind anyway. Needless to say, years later it hasn't lost its luster in the least. Also, Joni Michell's touch on this one is quite nice.
Blade serves up another aural feast... April 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
... more delicious even than 1998's Brian Blade Fellowship, at least to these ears. As much as I love that album - and gave it a full five stars - among other things, there's an urgent energy to this one, released in 2000, that elevates it just that little bit higher. From the first few minutes of the opening title number, Kurt Rosenwinkel's guitar was immediately seductive and drew me in closer, figuratively and literally. I actually went to sit down nearer the speaker to listen to the album, so as not to miss anything. I could've turned the volume up of course but I wasn't thinking straight. That's the effect the music had on me.
From beginning to end, I found this amazing music to listen to and Joni Mitchell even pops up to provide some vocals on "Steadfast"!
It's a totally collaborative effort and the love and respect the musicians have for each other practically leaps out of the speakers and Blade avoids the jack-of-all-trades trap that many of his contemporaries fall into, allowing his band members to contribute a few of the songs. Keyboardist Jon Cowherd contributes three; "Perceptual", "Reconciliation" and "Crooked Creek" and he co-writes "The Sunday Boys (Improvisation)" with saxophonist Myron Walden.
Apart from Blade himself of course, who continues to astound me with his drum patterns (he also played acoustic guitar on "Steadfast", and also played acoustic guitar and performed the vocal on the album closer, "Trembling") and Rosenwinkel who I've already mentioned, a special shout out has to go to Myron Walden who played alto saxophone and bass clarinet with great heart and maturity. I'll be keeping a keen eye (and ear) out for him from now on!
Six stars out of five, no question.
Beautiful but true November 27, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Perceptual is my Record of the year 2000 and with just two years until 2010 it will make my top personal 10 of the decade.
So Beautiful beyond any belief of mine, it is a lesson in composition, space and improvisation,If you never made another record together Brian and fellowship this is a downright masterpiece.I wont mention my other favourite musicians or how this could compare.I will treasure this recording for the rest of my life, thankyou, thankyou, thankyou.
For those who are thinking about it, jump in and let it wash over.The photo of the young Native Americal girl on the cover is honoured by this recording, a jewel.
beautiful and structured rough freshness? September 19, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Great drummers often make boring records. Not this one! This album is a real band achievement, like it says in the linernotes. There's a lot going on, but I espacialy like the sound of the album: it's edgy and beautifull at the same time.
And very well-balanced. With great guitarplaying of Kurt Rosenwinkel, fantastic drumming of Brian Blade (I saw and heared him do some incredible stuff live at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with Wayne Shorter.) and even the pedal steel guitar is blending in perfectly with the rest of the music. The album's got the warmth of some classical jazz albums together with a little roughness, as found in modern music. Sometimes with an ECM-like touch, but never getting too soft and mellow.
FJB/O!-music 2006
passionate August 4, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is what happens when a collective of some of today's not only talented, but passionate musicians gather together to make a recording. Regrdless of tempo or dynamic, the Fellowship manage to cohesively bring each piece together with great intensity and feeling. All the tunes move along with the utmost sense of urgency, but never rushing,each song moves forward and flows perfectly. Led by Brian Blade's masterful drumming( not to mention guitar/singing ability ) and musicianship, this band is one of the few on the current scene who has discovered its collective voice, one which speaks of music with a deeper meaning and spirit.
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