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Listen Ship Vinyl

Name: Henry Threadgill - Listen Ship
Brand: Alliance Entertainment
SKU: 808713011012
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Henry Threadgill Vinyl Records

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Listen Ship is Henry Threadgill writing for six guitars and two grand pianos, which is either an unreasonable idea or exactly the one he has spent fifty years building toward.

Threadgill came up through Chicago's AACM in the 1960s, then spent decades refusing to make the same record twice, from the spare trio interplay of Air to the tuba-heavy lurch of Very Very Circus to the interlocking counterpoint of Zooid, work that finally won him the Pulitzer in 2016. Now in his eighties, he isn't consolidating. This 2025 suite, cut at New York's Power Station, hands the whole rhythmic burden to strings and pianos, with no drums anywhere to lean on, and Threadgill conducting rather than playing a note.

Bill Frisell, Miles Okazaki, Brandon Ross, and Greg Belisle-Chi each bring an unmistakable touch, and the pleasure of the record is hearing four distinct guitar personalities fold into one texture. The sixteen movements are titled only by letters of the alphabet, which suits music this uninterested in narrative: A opens with intervals that refuse to settle, IJ is the suite's densest tangle of slippery counterpoint, and R lets the whole ensemble finally breathe out together.

For all the rigour, Threadgill remains one of American music's great Romantics, a lifelong seeker of the sublime. Sixteen movements later, that reads as plain description.

UPC: 808713011012

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Henry Threadgill - Listen Ship

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