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Q.E.D.

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Download links and information about Q.E.D. by Terje Rypdal. This album was released in 1993 and it belongs to Jazz, Avant Garde Jazz, Avant Garde Metal, Alternative genres. It contains 6 tracks with total duration of 52:11 minutes.

Artist: Terje Rypdal
Release date: 1993
Genre: Jazz, Avant Garde Jazz, Avant Garde Metal, Alternative
Tracks: 6
Duration: 52:11
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Tracks

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No. Title Length
1. 1st Movement 4:56
2. 2nd Movement 2:20
3. 3rd Movement 4:55
4. 4th Movement 4:52
5. 5th Movement 18:21
6. Largo Op. 55 16:47

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Q.E.D. (or opus 54, for Rypdal archivists) is a composition in five movements for electric guitar, string ensemble, and woodwinds, and in it Rypdal often alternates sections of great dissonance with near silence, or lonely sustained notes by just one or two instruments. It can have the sweeping starkness of a tracking shot over a fjord, but there's a certain coldness to it as well, and even confirmed fans of his jazz work may take a while to warm up to it. The second movement, with its needling backwards guitar over the string ensemble, is at times reminiscent of Red-era Frippertronics; the most dramatic and broodingly gorgeous playing arises in the fourth movement, though, with Rypdal's aching solos over ominous near-subsonic rumbling.