Rova - Morphological Echo

Primary Artist
Rova
Album Title
Morphological Echo
Release Date
August 17, 1998 
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Review by Thom Jurek
While the title of the CD is obscure in and of itself, the long work that makes up this CD, "Maintaining the Web Under Less Than Obvious Circumstances," is a series of works that showcases Rova's particular saxophone genius at creating games on the spot during performances. The strategies they developed for these games were created after working with composer -- and ultimate musical gamesman -- John Zorn on creating 20 different devices that could be used in performance to create extended possibilities for improvisation during a scored composition. Read More