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Title: Cyclic
Review: I know nothing at all about jazz, modal or otherwise, but somebody recommended this to me and I like it a lot. It's a bit like Philip Glass, or environmental ambient music, in that it's a series of cyclic rhythms overlaid with soloing from various trumpets and saxophones. The music shifts slowly over the course of the album, and although there are six different pieces they are essentially one long whole. It's very, very minimalist, and although the sleeve says that it was recorded in 1959 it's completely timeless. Best of all, you can play it over and over again - the mixture of simplicity and complexity remains fascinating, and it's not so much a complete whole as a tiny snapshot of an potentially-infinite, continually-generated performance.
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