Songs Of Experience (Import) (CD)

As an in-house producer for Capitol Records, David Axelrod first garnered notoriety in the mid 1960s thanks to his innovative approach to recording the famed jazz and R&B figures Cannonball Adderley and Lou Rawls. Axelrod released several solo albums of strikingly innovative acid-tinged jazz-fusion in the 1970s, but wallowed in obscurity until his music was rediscovered by crate-digging hip-hop producers and DJs in search of obscure beats and samples. His production and composition styles have had such a profound effect on hip-hop luminaries such as DJ Shadow and Dr. Dre (among many others) that it's not a stretch to say that hip-hop wouldn't sound like it does today without David Axelrod.

• Category:  Music  »  Jazz  »  Jazz Instrument
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: May 29, 2000
• Label: Capitol Records (UK)
• UPC: 724352158928
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105775953
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #94455 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
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• #1096 in Jazz Instrument (See Top 100 Jazz Instrument Bestsellers)

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This is the CD debut of David Axelrod's SONGS OF EXPERIENCE. "Poison Tree," "London," and "Human Abstract" are among the songs.

The follow-up to David Axelrod's 1968 solo debut, SONG OF INNOCENCE, finds the adventurous Los Angeles-based composer and producer once again riffing on the visionary poetry of William Blake, this time working from the British bard's SONGS OF EXPERIENCE. Appropriately, these eight pieces reflect the writings' weightier themes, as "The Poison Tree" begins the album with a striking sense of urgency generated by busy string and keyboard lines. "London" settles into a slightly foreboding funk section, while "The Sick Rose" is utterly haunting in its relative minimalism. An artist that had fully mastered his sonic palette by this point, Axelrod allows his signature fusion of rock and jazz to mesh with bold orchestral arrangements, hitting a swirling, horn-laden peak during "The Fly." One of the finest examples of Axelrod's singular talent, this record continued a strange, brooding trajectory that would land him in the darkly beautiful and fascinatingly bizarre realm of his subsequent project, EARTH ROT.

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