Flip and Spike
Flip and Spike | ||||
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Studio album / Live album by Joe Morris | ||||
Released | 1992 | |||
Studio | The Outpost, Stoughton, MA (4, 10) Middle East, Cambridge, MA | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 68:55 | |||
Label | Riti | |||
Producer | Joe Morris & Anne Marcotty Morris | |||
Joe Morris chronology | ||||
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Flip and Spike is an album by American jazz guitarist Joe Morris released in 1992 on his own Riti label. It features a trio with Jerome Deupree, who was the original drummer in the rock band Morphine, and bassist Sebastian Steinberg.
Reception
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In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states "Flip & Spike is the first of Morris' recordings that articulate his signature investigations of the guitar as an instrument of sonic density and dexterity, not just as a solo vehicle. As such, and as a work of striking emotional commitment, it is quite remarkable."[1]
In his book Honesty Is Explosive!: Selected Music Journalism, music writer Ben Watson claims about the album "Beneath the surface cool you sense a delirious funk. It creates a tension similar to the tumble-down-chaos-that-rocks in Beefheart."[2]
Track listing
All compositions by Joe Morris.
- "Flip & Spike" – 7:44
- "Itan" – 14:19
- "Julianna" – 2:42
- "Contemporarity" – 16:37
- "Mnemonic Device #1" – 0:52
- "Mnemonic Device #2" – 1:31
- "Mnemonic Device #3" – 1:13
- "Mnemonic Device #4" – 1:48
- "Mombaccus" – 11:31
- "Reflexes" – 10:38
Personnel
- Joe Morris – guitar
- Sebastian Steinberg – acoustic bass
- Jerome Deupree – drums
References
- ^ a b Jurek, Thom. Joe Morris – Flip and Spike: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
- ^ Watson, Ben (2010). Honesty Is Explosive!: Selected Music Journalism. United States: Borgo Press. pp. 34–35. ISBN 1434457834.
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- Sweatshop (1990)
- Flip and Spike (1992)
- Symbolic Gesture (1994)
- Illuminate (1995)
- Elsewhere (1996)
- You Be Me (1997)
- Antennae (1997)
- Racket Club (1998)
- Like Rays (1998)
- A Cloud of Black Birds (1998)
- Deep Telling (1999)
- Many Rings (1999)
- Underthru (1999)
- Soul Search (2000)
- Singularity (2001)
- Age of Everything (2002)
- Likewise (2003)
- Beautiful Existence (2005)
- Rebus (2007)
- High Definition (2008)
- Wildlife (2009)
- Colorfield (2009)
- Today on Earth (2009)
- Camera (2010)
- Traits (2011)
- Balance (2014)
- Red Hill (2014)
- Geometry of Distance (2019)
- Invisible Weave (1997)
- At the Old Office (2000)
- Out Right Now (2001)
- Altitude (2012)