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At the Center

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Credits
Track listing
References

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At the Center is an album by Meat Beat Manifesto, released in 2005 as part of the "Blue Series" of Thirsty Ear records fusing jazz with electronica.

Jazz elements had been featured in occasional Meat Beat Manifesto songs over the years. But At The Center is the first outright jazz album in the Meat Beat Manifesto catalog, with bandleader Jack Dangers' collaborators being a trio of prominent jazz players. The album is mostly funky and fusion oriented, with a few abstract or free-jazz leaning songs. It's entirely instrumental apart from scattered vocal samples, notably on two songs featuring vintage recordings of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading newspaper classified advertisements (the album's notes misidentify Ferlinghetti as Kenneth Rexroth).

At the Center earned mostly positive reviews from critics of both jazz and electronic music; however, Dangers opted to not continue his exploration of jazz on subsequent Meat Beat Manifesto albums.

Credits

Musicians

David King (of The Bad Plus): Drums, percussion
Peter Gordon: Flute
Craig Taborn: Steinway grand piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano, clavinet, Hammond B3 organ
Jack Dangers: Bass, Bass flute, Bass clarinet, "everything else" (i.e., samples, synthesizer, shortwave radio, percussion, etc.).
Kenneth Rexroth reading the want ads recorded by Henry Jacobs for KPFA, 1957. Courtesy of Henry Jacobs.

Technical personnel

Artwork and Album Design: Robert Beam
Producer and engineer: Jack Dangers

Track listing

"Wild" - 5:18
"Flute Thang" - 4:47
"Murita Cycles" - 4:13
"Want Ads One" - 4:27
- Voice: Lawrence Ferlinghetti^&91;5&93;
"Blind" - 5:16
"Musica Classica" - 3:34
"Bohemian Grove" - 5:20
"United Nations ETC. ETC." - 3:57
"Want Ads Two" - 4:25
- Voice: Lawrence Ferlinghetti^&91;5&93;
"The Water Margin" - 6:34
"Shotgun! (Blast to the Brain)" - 4:59
"Granulation 1" - 3:51

References

1. ^{{ cite web |url=http://brainwashed.com/common/htdocs/discog/thi57159.php?site=mbm07 |title=Meat Beat Manifesto - At the Center |work=Brainwashed |accessdate=12 March 2015 }}
2. ^http://www.allmusic.com/album/at-the-center-mw0000655193
3. ^http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5196-at-the-center/
4. ^http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/meat-beat-manifesto-center
5. ^¹Kenneth Rexroth#The Beat Generation

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