Henry Threadgill's Zooid, Up Popped the Two Lips - 45m 30s

Tracks & Durations

1. Tickled Pink	6:54
2. Dark Black	5:26
3. Look	4:54
4. Around My Goose	8:00
5. Calm Down	5:35
6. Did You See That	7:43
7. Do the Needful	6:53

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Review

Veteran alto saxophonist and flutist Henry Threadgill enters fresh territory with Up Popped the Two Lips. It's the first album by his intriguing, all-acoustic Zooid sextet. Along with a simultaneously issued new effort by another band of his, Make a Move, it also marks his first association with a small independent label in many a moon. A longtime proponent of world sounds, Threadgill plays international matchmaker here in drafting Moroccan oud player Tarik Benbrahim into a string section that includes acoustic guitarist Liberty Ellman and cellist Dana Leong. By turns jaunty and mysterious, funky and reflective, the music is characteristically Theadgillian with its contrasts between light and dark, juxtaposition of flighty carnival melodies and assertive zigzag rhythms, tricky time signatures and fulsome unison lines. And in Jose Davila, Threadgill has another excellent tuba player to man an instrument of great importance to his patented sound. But with Benbrahim and Ellman lightening the textures and drummer Dafnis Prieto nimbly threading through them--and doing his share of slashing as well--this may be Threadgill's springiest unit. Up Popped the Two Lips is certainly Threadgill's most consistently strong effort since 1993's Too Much Sugar for a Dime. --Lloyd Sachs

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