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Flip and Spike

Flip and Spike
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Studio album / Live album by Joe Morris
Released 1992
Studio The Outpost, Stoughton, MA
(4, 10) Middle East, Cambridge, MA
Genre Jazz
Length 68:55
Label Riti
Producer Joe Morris & Anne Marcotty Morris
Joe Morris chronology
Sweatshop
(1990)Sweatshop1990
Flip and Spike
(1990)
Symbolic Gesture
(1994)Symbolic Gesture1994
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AllMusic 4.5/5 stars

Flip and Spike is an album by American jazz guitarist Joe Morris released in 1992 on his own Riti label. It features a trio with Jerome Deupree, who was the original drummer in the rock band Morphine, and bassist Sebastian Steinberg.

In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states "Flip & Spike is the first of Morris' recordings that articulate his signature investigations of the guitar as an instrument of sonic density and dexterity, not just as a solo vehicle. As such, and as a work of striking emotional commitment, it is quite remarkable."

In his book Honesty Is Explosive!: Selected Music Journalism, music writer Ben Watson claims about the album "Beneath the surface cool you sense a delirious funk. It creates a tension similar to the tumble-down-chaos-that-rocks in Beefheart."

All compositions by Joe Morris.


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