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Bill Frisell: Is That You?

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Label: Elektra Nonesuch
Released: 1990
Time:
 49:33
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Wayne Horvitz
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.billfrisell.com
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Purchase date: 2016
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] No Man's Land (Frisell) - 6:40
[2] Someone in My Backyard (Frisell) - 2:45
[3] Rag (Frisell) - 4:00
[4] Is That You? (Frisell) - 6:50
[5] The Way Home (Frisell) - 6:00
[6] Twenty Years (Frisell) - 2:43
[7] Chain of Fools[]  (Covay) - 3:30
[8] Hello Nellie (Frisell) - 4:07
[9] The Days of Wine and Roses (Mancini/Mercer) - 3:35
[10] Yuba City[]  (Horvitz)- 5:42
[11] Half a Million (Frisell) - 4:00
[12] Hope and Fear (Frisell) - 1:06

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Bill Frisell - Electric And Acoustic Guitars, Bass, Banjo, Ukulele, Clarinet
Wayne Horvitz - Keyboards, Drum Programming, Momentary Bass, Producer
Joey Baron - Drums
Dave Hofstra - Tuba on [4,8], Bass on [7]

Robert Hurwitz - Executive Producer
Jay Follette - Engineer
Roger Moutenot - Mixing
Jon Goldberger - Assistant Engineer
Manhattan Design - Art Direction, Design
Stephen Frailey - Photography

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1990 LP Elektra Nonesuch - 7559-60956-1
1990 CD Elektra Nonesuch - 7559-60956-2

Recorded in August, 1989, at the Ironwood Studios, Seattle. Mixed at Skyline Studios, New York City, January 1990.



On this Wayne Horvitz-produced set, Frisell plays bass, banjo, ukulele and clarinet, along with guitar. He performs original compositions as well as takes on Henry Mancini’s “The Days of Wine and Roses” and Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools.”

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Recorded in 1989, Is That You? is very much a studio session, making ample use of overdubs and Bill Frisell's highly selective doubling on bass, banjo, ukulele, and clarinet, as well as his usual guitars. Producer Wayne Horvitz adds keyboards and some drum programming, with Joey Baron playing drums and Dave Hofstra appearing occasionally on tuba and electric bass. It's Frisell's ability to construct novel musical zones that stands out, mixing acoustic folk-derived materials with distorted big-beat electric guitars in what sometimes feels like a one-man culture clash. Much of this genre evasion takes place at slow tempos, making the method even more impressive, and sometimes one of Frisell's long bends seems to span continents. The ethereally beautiful "The Way Home" sounds as if it's straddling a picturesque Japan and steel-guitar country, wandering slowly between the two without ever taking up a definite residence. Those qualities appear frequently here, and there are also a couple of terrific covers, a slow solo-guitar version of Henry Mancini's "The Days of Wine and Roses" filled with a wandering tonality, and a very funky version of Aretha Franklin's hit "Chain of Fools."

Stuart Broomer - Amazon.com



Recorded in 1989 while Frisell was still a member of Naked City, Is That You? finds the guitarist already trending away from that band's scattershot assault and toward the more pastoral leanings he would embrace in the upcoming decade. At its best, as on the title track, Frisell creates nostalgic but heartfelt melodies that have the sense of being a soundtrack to a bittersweet movie. Wayne Horvitz' "Yuba City" is also evocative and very much in keeping with his other work from around that time, all sumptuous melodic hooks overlaying somewhat clunky rhythms. There are other nice touches here and there (the charming "Rag," for instance), but too often the gauziness that is an inherent problem with much of Frisell's music comes to the fore. While his cover of "Chain of Fools" chugs along with some dopey panache, "The Days of Wine and Roses" threatens to evaporate into the mist altogether. Fans of his later work may welcome this approach and, indeed, consider it one of his most attractive attributes, but those listeners hoping to hear more of the bite and devil-may-care attitude shown in his work with Zorn may feel suffocated.

Brian Olewnick - All Music Guide



Is That You? is the second album by Bill Frisell to be released on the Elektra Nonesuch label. It was released in 1990 and features performances by Frisell, Wayne Horvitz and Joey Baron who were also members of Naked City. The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick awarded the album 3 stars stating "Is That You? finds the guitarist already trending away from that band's scattershot assault and toward the more pastoral leanings he would embrace in the upcoming decade".

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