{"title":"Matthew Shipp","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-intrinsic-nature-of-shipp-2","title":"The Intrinsic Nature Of Shipp","description":"\u003cp\u003eVisionary pianist Matthew Shipp refnes his solo piano language to its purest essence on The Intrinsic Nature of Shipp, out Sept 15, 2023, on Mahakala Music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"I believe a pianist's intrinsic nature comes out in the solo idiom,\" asserts Matthew Shipp. If that is the case, then the solo work of an artist as singular and visionary as Shipp must be viewed as creation in its purest form. With his remarkable new album The Intrinsic Nature of Shipp, due out [date] via Mahakala Music, the acclaimed pianist offers his most stunningly distilled statement to date, a compelling, intensely focused set of breathtaking improvisations that fastidiously refne Shipp's prismatic language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mahakala music","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50520280203595,"sku":"2051465","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/The_Intrinsic_Nature_of_Shipp_acb49ad1_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727982338"},{"product_id":"the-piano-equation","title":"The Piano Equation","description":"\u003cp\u003eFurther honing a singular cosmic musical language, Matthew Shipp begins celebrating his landmark 60th year with this solo piano recording. 'The Piano Equation' is also the inaugural release from Tao Forms, a new label founded by drummer-improviser-composer - and longtime Shipp collaborator - Whit Dickey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver more than half of his lifespan, Shipp has built up an unparalleled body of work and a wholly original musical language that only becomes more hyper-focused and distinctive with the passage of time. Shipp's abstract eloquence is on vivid display throughout 'The Piano Equation', which presents Shipp alone at the piano, brilliantly solving his higher-order musical mathematics, approaching each new unknown from unexpected vantage points as in some form of cubist algebra. Shipp builds his solo music in a cellular fashion, formed like the building blocks of human life out of disparate elements that combine and evolve in novel and fascinating forms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEruptive Cecil Taylor clusters are mutated by the interstellar rays of Sun Ra's philosophising, then spiral earthward in taut, obsessive figures. Stride, swing and the avant-garde collide like so many elemental particles, the aftereffects radiating outward in increasingly complex and intricate formations. The scientific, the personal, the political and the fantastic co-exist throughout Shipp's work, melding in the radical vocabulary that the pianist employs on the album, which speaks with its own alien yet familiar logic. Fragments of melody coalesce and transform, dissolve or shatter into kaleidoscopic reveries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile some may have used the arrival of such a landmark occasion as their 60th birthday to look backwards, Shipp will spend the year continuing to move resolutely forward, further evolving a voice that is as intimately personal as it is cosmically adventurous.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50526502617419,"sku":"1093505","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e09ac940-73de-46f5-a6fb-0929c50f902a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728044323"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/matthew-shipp.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}