Elastic Aspects

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Down Beat	[1]

In a review for JazzTimes Mike Shanley notes that "His playing here, and especially on the solo tracks, has a lyrical, delicate quality that should surprise anyone expecting more familiar avant-garde moves, like heavy thunder from the bottom of the keyboard."^[2]

The All About Jazz review by John Sharpe states "Shipp sounds like no-one else, with a style characterized by abrupt contrasts of crystalline delicacy rubbing shoulders with dissonant depth charges and insistent circular motifs."^[3]

The Down Beat review by Bill Meyer says that "Elastic Aspects can be seen as a companion piece to its predecessor in the way that it very explicitly breaks down the components of his trio music and isolates how they interact."^[1]

All compositions by Matthew Shipp

1. "Alternative Aspects" – 2:19
2. "Aspects" – 0:27
3. "Psychic Counterpart" – 4:47
4. "Frame Focus" – 3:52
5. "Flow Chart" – 1:30
6. "Mute Voice" – 3:12
7. "Explosive Aspects" – 3:19
8. "Raw Materials" – 5:30
9. "Rainforest" – 5:08
10. "Stage 10" – 3:12
11. "Dimension" – 3:24
12. "Elastic Aspects" – 4:30
13. "Elastic Eye" – 7:36

• Matthew Shipp – piano
• Michael Bisio – bass
• Whit Dickey – drums