Ut Gret’s Celebration of 25 Years of Improvisation

Ut Gret – Recent Fossils (ear X-tacy Records, 2006)

Progressive music ensemble Ut Gret celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2006 with this 3-CD boxed set. Ut Gret is an iconic avant-garde band from Louisville (Kentucky). They are known for a genre-defying sound that incorporates a wide range of influences, ranging from avant-garde rock to contemporary classical and gamelan.

Each one of the three albums focus on different themes. CD 1 includes compositions for experimental gamelan although this is not your typical gamelan orchestra. Instead, it is an ensemble that combines gamelan, global percussion, horns, flutes, guitars and various other instruments.

CD2 contains idiomatic and non-idiomatic improvisations featuring western and world music instruments.

The final album, CD3 is the ensemble’s vision of Terry Riley’s influential In C composition. The instrumentation here is a little different, including synths, saxophone, vibraphones, marimba, flute and bass clarinet.

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