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 |
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Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 68:55 | |||
Label | Riti | |||
Producer | Joe Morris & Anne Marcotty Morris | |||
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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.