Sound
by Roscoe Mitchell
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Sound is ranked as the best album by Roscoe Mitchell.
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Sound track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/02/2025 17:43 | Elauqsapid | 2,721 | 64/100 |
| ! | 10/06/2024 23:17 |  EyeKanFly | 8,848 | 65/100 |
| ! | 01/10/2024 20:15 | BorderFreeAndrew | 15,632 | 74/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2023 19:03 | replacementlevel | 7,739 | 70/100 |
| ! | 08/04/2023 12:12 |  LedZep | 5,076 | 79/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.3/100, a mean average of 69.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.
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Jboy56 09/16/2022 12:50 | #289712
I bet this is outside my jazz genre spectrum which is not narrow, but this is ratherpainful to distill and quite hard to get to the atomics of this. Requires effort to be judged correctly, perhaps.. Later
The way the mysterious and poetic more conventional introduction of Sound (the track) suddenly transitions to silence broken by sparse, seemingly spontaneous sounds (from various unidentified sources) felt very much like the introduction of an old Japanese movie (Opening music during the credits dissolving into real time). Required 3 listens to fully appreciate the imaginative in-the-moment soundscape it creates and not lose myself in the arbitrariness.
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