#2421 Craig Taborn - Light Made Lighter

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while you're here

this is all about the way Taborn paces his runs up and down the piano, the flow of his chord origami, and the way the band pushes and pulls alongside him on strong tethers. It's not quite human, that breathing, slow-faster-slower-fast-slow. It's not quite natural, no predictable ebb and flow. It's some combination of mechanical and organic -- a cog of a man turning a crank on a large machine, finding the strength to pull through one more revolution, before working up the strength for one more, the effort pushed through a mechanical system that results in the mass production of carefully clustered piano notes at a surging pace.

There's little emotion, not a lot of time to contemplate, just that restless, relentless, tide of notes, restless even in the way its restless, challenging you to backtrace the gravities of its spirograph orbits 3.5/5