Cactus (Bobby Kapp and Matthew Shipp album)

2016 studio album by Bobby Kapp and Matthew Shipp

Cactus

Studio album by

Bobby Kapp and Matthew Shipp

Released| 2016
Recorded| 2016
Studio| Systems Two, Brooklyn
Genre| Jazz
Length| 61:21
Label| Northern Spy
Matthew Shipp chronology
| The Conduct of Jazz
(2015)  | Cactus
(2016)  | Piano Song
(2017)

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Cactus is an album by American jazz drummer Bobby Kapp and pianist Matthew Shipp, which was recorded in 2016 and released on Northern Spy. It was their first duo recording, following 2015's Kapp quartet album Themes 4 Transmutation.[1]

## Reception[edit]

In a review for Pitchfork Marc Masters notes "The thrill of Cactus is not that the music could fall apart at any moment, but that this duo can handle anything they throw at each other."[2]

The All About Jazz review by Dan MccLenaghan states "Everything meshed on this set. Cactus proves itself cohesive CD full of unpretentious, adventurous, improvised beauty."[3]

In another review for All About Jazz Karl Ackermann says "The music is horrible from beginning to end and, more importantly, there is an element of surprise in each piece that makes the overall album extremely uncomfortable ."[4]

## Track listing[edit]

All compositions by Kapp/Shipp.

1. "Overture" – 8:32
2. "Before" – 4:27
3. "During" – 5:51
4. "Money" – 6:11
5. "Cactus" – 5:32
6. "After" – 8:09
7. "Good Wood" – 10:50
8. "Snow Storm Coming" – 5:41
9. "The 3rd Sound" – 6:08

## Personnel[edit]

* Bobby Kapp – drums
* Matthew Shipp – piano

## References[edit]

1. ^ Cactus at Northern Spy
2. ^ Masters, Marc. Cactus review at Pitchfork
3. ^ MccLenaghan, Dan. Cactus review at All About Jazz
4. ^ Ackermann, Karl. Cactus review at All About Jazz

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* Sonic Explorations
* Points
* Circular Temple
* Zo
* Critical Mass
* Symbol Systems
* Prism
* 2-Z
* The Flow of X
* Before the World
* By the Law of Music
* Thesis
* The Multiplication Table
* Strata
* DNA
* Magnetism
* Gravitational Systems
* Pastoral Composure
* Expansion, Power, Release
* New Orbit
* Songs
* Equilibrium
* Antipop vs. Matthew Shipp
* The Trio Plays Ware
* In Finland
* One
* Piano Vortex
* Right Hemisphere
* Un Piano
* Cosmic Suite
* Harmonic Disorder
* 4D
* SAMA
* Art of the Improviser
* Cosmic Lieder
* Elastic Aspects
* Floating Ice
* Rex, Wrecks & XXX
* Piano Sutras
* Root of Things
* The Darkseid Recital
* I've Been to Many Places
* To Duke
* Live at Okuden
* The Gospel According to Matthew & Michael
* Our Lady of the Flowers
* The Conduct of Jazz
* Live at Okuden
* Cactus
* Piano Song

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