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Morris (Maurice de Bevere) - Various Lucky Luke cover illustrations for the Dutch comic magazine ‘Pep’, 1965-1967.

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Devin Gray – Dirigo Rataplan II (Rataplan)

A cognate phrase, Dirigo Rataplan loosely translates from the Latin and French respectively to “I direct a drumming sound.” The latter word is also the name of Devin Gray’s new record label, this disc being the inaugural release on the same. Gray’s kept fast company over the course of his active career and this project is a direct reflection of that consistency from the roster on down. Trumpeter Dave Ballou, tenorist Ellery Eskelin and bassist Michael Formanek are each acknowledged masters on their instruments and strong musical personalities who exhibit their shared confidence through the deference and engagement they show toward Gray’s deceptively demanding designs.

The album is actually a sequel to the ensemble’s 2012 recorded debut on the Brooklyn-based Skirl label, delving into both Gray’s developments in the intervening half-decade as well as the resilient rapport that also informed the earlier effort. Ten pieces by the drummer tally together to less than hour of the music, but each one is rigged with an ample and admirable array of ideas. “Congruently” immediately illustrates the leader’s abilities at parsing meter with an alternating, loosely Latinate rhythm that is as variable and supple as breathing. The horns dance atop the shifting patterns of drums and bass, riding the harnessed energy like seasoned surfers shooting a curl.

“Rollin’ Thru Town” sets up an inverse dynamic with Gray pulling inward in a gravitational tug of staccato sticking as the tenor and trumpet phrase in overlapping increments. Formanek peppers the field with a cascade of slanted plucks before landing on a sauntering series of accents. Once again, time is malleable and multidirectional in a manner of constant movement. “Trends of Trending” pivots on another diagonal groove with Eskelin and Ballou harmonizing in and around a unified line and over into fleeting abstraction bulwarked by garrulous bass that steers the piece to an ardent, vamp-anchored end.

Gray’s composition titles are evocative and elliptical at once. “Texicate” trades mainly on a fluttering a chamber-like colloquy between the horns as bass and drums interject from the edges. “Quantum Cryptology” echoes its appellation through a series of micro-gestures between component groupings. Ballou states a motif backed by Formanek before falling away to leave the bassist and Eskelin to an intimate dialogue. Grey enters on delicate cymbals to create a trio and signals Ballou’s return, this time solo for a focused improvisation that tests his tonal mettle. The concluding “Micro Dosage” is similarly succinct, a playfully incremental, drain-circling piece that stops on a dime.

Derek Taylor

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LE PONEY DE SHETLAND, qui, par sa taille, est peut-être le plus petit Cheval de monde, est un animal vigoureux, hardi, gai et courageux, qui excelle parfois comme trotteur. 1. Feu-de-joie, Poulain de 3 mois, par Café-Cloche, hors Furiosa. 2. Rataplan,  par Vaingtory hors Radiante, descendant de Odin et Multum in Parvo; à M. Fol. 

Vie à la Campagne, Vol. 65, 15 Octobre 1930

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Newspaper Reviews from Around the World

"There will be no shortage of men of good sense who will no more tentatively sip these audacious aesthetic promises. For this you can blame or praise according to your own inclination towards Dadaism and its disciplines. It is no bad thing to have a hobbyhorse. And it is excellent that the young Dadaists should be to the fore of this baggage train. There are enough of the old guard bringing up the rear. Let us just recall the official imbeciles who heartily mocked the precursors of the Symbolists and the Impressionists. Let us admire excess: it is the sign of health. It is the sign of youth."

L'Eclair (Paris).

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Newspaper Reviews from Around the World

"Perhaps the best approach is to examine Dadaism from the point of view of our knowledge of psychology. This will enable us to choose between too many vague explanations.

'Dadaism,' wrote Huelsenbeck, one of the leaders of the movement, 'is the first cry of the new-born Dada. We are no longer wet-nurses, but bards who wish to begin everything anew.'

This perfectly lucid explanation reveals a tendency which is well-known in psychology and has been defined as regression towards childhood."

Comoedia (Paris), 1920.

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