Pangaea (Album)

Occupation

Pangaea is an album of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. It was recorded in Osaka on February 1, 1975, published in the same year by Columbia Records.

Background to the album

After Bitches Brew (1970), the height of his stylistic upheaval that took place since the album " Miles in the Sky" in 1967, the trumpeter recorded a number of live albums, which greatly in relation to rock and funk rhythms were documented in albums like " Live Evil " or " Miles at Fillmore " (1970). After that took place around 1972/73 a rhythmic orientation: "Our melodies are getting shorter and shorter, and we play them less and less, because all the tunes that you can hear, have already been registered and exploited by the plate shop. (...) For this reason, our companies are now much more with rhythms, especially with polyrhythms. And the melody can be reflected in the rhythm of bass and drums. We are three orchestras in one: an African, a okzidentales and an Oriental, " Miles Davis said to the orientation of its music.

The album

The two double albums " Pangaea " and " Agharta " were recorded on the same day; " Agharta " at the afternoon concert, " Pangaea " at the evening concert at the Festival Hall in Osaka. The already in the album "Dark Magus " suggestive development is continued here: The sound is created dense and differentiated, the ensemble additionally reinforced with two guitarists. The young Pete Cosey manages to pair the heritage Jimi Hendrix with John McLaughlin of the art In the long -term improvisations of " Pangaea " " all formal standards that had previously determined the development of jazz, almost completely eliminated ," says Davis biographer Peter Wießmüller to the album, "Miles produced repeatedly cosmic sound Bays from his experimental sound kitchen, where it exceeds the limits of atonality. flanked by escalating and precise tumbled percussion particles M'tumes or by Sonny Fortune's tender flute intonations are dreamy visions or breathless tensions caused ".

The title

Disc One

Disc Two

Literature / Sources

  • Ian Carr: Miles Davis - The Definitive Biography. Revised edition 1998 HarperCollins ISBN 0-00-6530265
  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD 6th edition. ISBN 0-14-051521-6
  • Erik Nisenson: Round About Midnight - A portrait of Miles Davis. Vienna, Hannibal, 1985
  • Peter Wießmüller: Miles Davis - His life, his music, his records. Gauting, Oreos ( Jazz Collection ) 1985

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  • Album ( fusion)
  • 1975 album
  • Miles Davis album
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