Sold Date: June 15, 2020
Start Date: June 8, 2020
Final Price: $50.00 (USD)
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KEITH TIPPETT Blueprint (1972 UK orange RCA Victor label 6-track stereo LP starring Roy Babbington [bass] Keith Bailey and Frank Perry [percussion] plus Julie Tippetts on guitar and voice produced by Robert Fripp at Command for Ronnie Scott Directions Ltd with strictly no electronics involved - the sounds are acoustic with all music improvised.
Coming straight after the gigantic "Septober Energy" as it did, Blueprint must have come as a bit of a surprise for many of Keith Tippett's fans. The music is minimal - both in scale and sound - but whereas the Centipede recording leaves its impression by its overwhelming force, Blueprint makes it mark with much more subtlety.
At the session, supervised by Robert Fripp, the collective ensemble consists of Keith Tippett (piano) Roy Babbington (bass) Keith Bailey and Frank Perry (percussion) and Julie Tippetts (voice/guitar/mandolin/recorder) but the groups on each track never go above quartet and four of the tracks being trio numbers.
With a few rushes of blood aside (for example on the quartet numbers "Dance" and "Woodcut", much of the album is dominated by quiet, with zen-like bells and percussion drifting into Tippett's piano and Babbington's ethereal bowed bass, while at the beginning of "Blues ll" Julie Tippetts coaxes the mandolin into sounding like a Japanese koto.
As someone who often veers away from anything that even suggests a "jazz" vocalist, I was very much taken by Julie Tippett's abstract use of her voice and the way she blends it with the rest of the instruments, making a much more textural balance between herself and the others.
 ‎– Blueprint Label:  ‎– SF 8290 Format: , LP, Album
Country: Released: Genre: Style: Tracklist A1SongA2DanceA3GlimpseB1Blues IB2WoodcutB3Blues II Companies, etc. Copyright (c) –  Recorded At –  Printed By –  Published By –  Published By –  Credits Bass –  Engineer – * Lacquer Cut By –  Percussion –  (tracks: A2, A3, B2),  (tracks: A1) Piano –  Producer –  Recorded By –  Voice, Guitar, Mandolin, Recorder –  (tracks: A2, B1, B2, B3) Notes Front cover laminated, orange labels Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout (Label, side A): BGBS 0990 Matrix / Runout (Label, side B): BGBS 0991
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