Mark Dresser Trio - Aquifer (2002)

Cryptogramophone: CG111
http://www.cryptogramophone.com/catalog/aquifer

* Mark Dresser: contrabass, giffus
* Matthias Ziegler: electro-acoustic flutes
(contrabass, bass, alto, soprano flutes, & piccolo)
* Denman Maroney: hyperpiano

http://www.mark-dresser.com/projects/mark-dresser-trio
http://www.mark-dresser.com/
http://www.matthias-ziegler.ch/
http://www.denmanmaroney.com/

Recorded at Tedesco Studios, Paramus, New Jersey March 1-2, 2001.
Engineer: Jon Rosenberg.

Reviews
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By Thom Jurek
http://www.allmusic.com/album/aquifer-mw0000657506

As a composer Mark Dresser walks no lines; he enters and exits the musical body
without regard for boundaries or conventions imposed from outside his musical
view. As a soloist, improviser, and bandleader, Dresser is well-known for
turning the musical tract inside out in order to get what he needs from his
instrument, his ensemble, or a particular piece of music. On Aquifer, his
second album as a leader for the now-venerable Cryptogramphone label, Dresser
uses the title as a veil-lifting exercise on what it is this ensemble does with
music. They act as the ground from which all force is created. They are
unchanging and look at everything with equanimity, yet, based on the dictates
of a particular composition or interaction, cause chain reactions of force,
silence, ebb, and flow with each movement or consideration. Here with Mathias
Ziegler, with the entire family of flutes played electroacoustically and the
hyper piano of Denman Maroney, the ensemble charts more unknown, perhaps
unknowable territory while keeping their focus on the axis of purely musical
expression...

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By Charlie Wilmoth
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/88

By Jason Bivins
http://www.onefinalnote.com/reviews/d/dresser-mark/aquifer.asp

By Josef Woodard
http://jazztimes.com/articles/12959-aquifer-mark-dresser-trio