Author: Phil Freeman
\nSource: The Wire May 2006<\/p>\n
<\/strong><\/span><\/span> Author: Phil Freeman Source: The Wire May 2006 The group\u2019s debut, recorded in a Philadelphia church, documents a battle between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_eb_attr":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47,62,50,60,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","category-ht007","category-releases","category-reviews","category-shot-x-shot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":889,"url":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/889-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":876,"position":0},"title":"Reviews – Shot X Shot","author":"admin","date":"March 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Author: Source: WNUR pick of the week April 2006 Pick of the Week: This is a remarkable album and a rare event in that we hardly ever see a debut recording... 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\nThe group\u2019s debut, recorded in a Philadelphia church, documents a battle between the participants and their environment. Natural reverberation is the fifth instrument\u2014delicate horn duets shimmer away into ambient haze, as Dan Capecchi\u2019s drums thump and rattle and bassist Matt Engle struggles manfully to make an impact.
\nThings begin slowly, with Capecchi eliciting sounds very much like feedback from his cymbals, before the horns come in\u2014Rogers droning, Scofield playing slow, beautiful sequences of notes that seem only tenuously connected. But each sound chosen is indisputably right. . .
\nAll [tracks] leave an impression, upon completion, of being neither solipsistic nor beholden to clich\u00e9\u2014a small miracle, these days. This calmly assured debut bodes well for the future of all involved. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"