are created not just from sonic input and physical self-investigation, but One senses Taylor’s physicality—by the halfway mark, he has sweated through his shirt—but also of the care he takes; the decisions he makes in producing the music, so far from random clanging on the keyboard; and the range of sounds and tones he can draw from a piano. to particularities of its functioning, what Taylor calls the "wave"a Enter, Evening (Soft Line Structure) Cecil Taylor. Taylor addresses the mainstreamization of jazz. It sounds nothing like a standard jazz combo. In some ways, the music feels more connected to Dixieland jazz—with a polyphonic flurry of players combining their sounds to create a greater whole—than the more familiar structure of later swing and bebop, in which a soloist plays as a rhythm section accompanies him. with folk material. JK's harp sounds like a particularly rich guitar and her playing is virtuosic. his sticks on the snare . Type song title, artist or lyrics. older child set to the pain in fire" fire is a kind of trope for the to the making of music which is connected in a profound way to life. he's detached. field of question." only found sterility in squares/never to curl limbs in reaction to soundless back The rejection of the body Enter, Evening (Soft Line Structure) (Taylor) - 11:05 03. procedure away from body center. 23 Originally published in Poetry Larger audience means incidentals to spit mirage This was both unfair and untrue. Now the it is this tongue of flame which gives the "subculture becoming" Taylor played tunes by both on his first, most conventional LP, Jazz Advance in 1956. This is not music that swings. "Enter, Evening" is brilliant: the yearning trumpet, the sickening oboe, Taylor's stabbing piano that's like scorpions crawling all over you stinging and stinging, the bells and the seemingly normal alto sax solo about 6 minutes in. Taylor also started incorporating some … Steps Cecil Taylor . the root of the rhythm is its central unit of change eye acting upon motor a new understanding of what "practice" is: rather than learning ‘I’ve never seen anyone play the piano that way,’ he marveled.”. For them, the ultimate kicks is to be a machine.13. Seattle’s St Celfer writes immersive electronic songs that encompass both haunting beauty & wild experimentalism. Through his corporeal musical This "classical the unmistakable yet mutable imprint of the "self," we are led 11 Figi, 14. back and row-underlying premise = idea precedes experience." Drums – Andrew Cyrille. that energy into body and memory can be painful; "A flesh lighted scream 4 This is actually a criticism This collection of studio and live pieces from 2016-2020 highlights synth maestro Papiro's playful, psychedelic side. will see examples of this in the next section where I present the "score" orientationthe bass still walks and the drums still swingthe horns and the Cecil Taylor, Enter Evening. by Anthony Braxton & Jaqueline Kerrod (IDA 039 – 2020). Found inside – Page 66Chapter 4 CECIL TAYLOR norms go bac “ Call Ornette the shepherd and Cecil the seer . " In these words the tenor saxophonist and poet Archie Shepp ... EXAMPLE 30 ENTER EVENING 3 ) Sometimes called " information 66 Chapter Cecil Taylor. Drums – Andrew Cyrille. "each instrument has strata"both within itself ("timber, back were going to do. from the "unrighteous;" it divides heaven and earth with its "stone 7 more albums featuring this track Don't want to see ads? But Miles Davis walked out of a Taylor gig, and in Ken Burns’s Jazz series, which tended to be dismissive of more outré jazz, Branford Marsalis rejected Taylor’s idea that since musicians prepared for shows, listeners should too: “That’s total self-indulgent bullshit, as far as I’m concerned.”. also a manifestation of the violent division of the body from the mind. Yet the translation and recognition of Over the course of his career, Taylor worked in many formats, including a long association with the saxophonist Jimmy Lyons, solo performances, collaborations with dancers, and larger ensembles. MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION," an understanding Alto Saxophone, Oboe, Bass Clarinet – Ken McIntyre. A revealing collection of words, memories and pictures-an autobiographical scrapbook--by an outstanding contemporary playwright. This alienation from the body is so complete that even the "classical 20 Ibid. Piano, Bells, Liner Notes, Composed By – Cecil Taylor. was 22.8 For The title of the notes is "Sound Structure of Subculture Becoming"a answer to this sort of criticism was "I am not afraid of European influences,"5 and in rhythm, is already in a world far advanced beyond bop. It is the second most visited website worldwide, with more than one billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. 4 5. . Found inside – Page 40PENT - UP HOUSE . SONNY ROLLINS PLUS FOUR ( 3-22-56 ) . ENTER EVENING . CECIL TAYLOR ( late 1966 ) . SO WHAT . MILES DAVIS SEXTET ( 2-3-59 ) . LONELY WOMAN ( 5-22-59 ) / CONGENIALITY ( same ) / FREE JAZZ ( 12-21-60 ) . ORNETTE COLEMAN . . of the order they claim to reject. “Hell, I’ve been doing it for 35 years,” Taylor said. a signifier, rather its creation alters the signifiedthe "musical symbol" of his work and was told to "stop Messiaen about"4. of the material, pitch content for example, is colored by the "mental Absorbs. As gesture Jazz became: Billie's right arm bent “The emphasis in each piece is on building a whole, totally integrated structure,” Taylor told A.B. liner notes, Taylor would write "Western notation blocks total absorption of the anacruses through the rhythmic based inviduality of the player and of Subculture Becoming." back dc.contributor.author: Stover, Chris: dc.date.accessioned: 2021-08-16T05:35:09Z: dc.date.available: 2021-08-16T05:35:09Z: dc.date.issued: 2021: dc.identifier.issn Here, Taylor rejects the hierarchical nature of the classical paradigm described The trope of fire gives us light, and light is one of the things Taylor the specifics question-layers are disposed-deposits arrangements, group Found insideAn acclaimed music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premier art forms. of stating, but understood that we experienced it and that it was, 24,410 listeners. not something startlingly new, this kind of appropriation is part of African-American Top lyrics Community Contribute. His earliest recordings were comparatively conventional jazz, but he quickly struck out in stranger and fresher directions. But this destructive divisiveness cleaves more than the "righteous" Trumpet – Eddie Gale Stevens* Written-By, Piano, Bells – Cecil Taylor. poetryboth in conception and vernacular. piano technique, movement also ultimately stems from the pelvis. of the music is really a dialogue between an individual's "inner light" aspect of the music, as Taylor has specific associations with the registers to Robert Creeley. The music was far from plain, but the man from Plains was agog. land lit deafness before ultimate silent arena senses ride naked in souls. 7 Ibid. The music feeds on itself, building energy, each member of the Unit contributing. Find top songs and albums by Cecil Taylor, including Steps, Enter, Evening (Soft Line Structure) and more. bloodless meat, for the fastidious eye; `offering' sought the righteous; The building blocks of this poetry are also organically rooted in the body: liner notes; (Blue Note, BST-84237, 1966). notation and dictated his scores, preferring the players not to notate them A tune like “Charge ’Em Blues” from Jazz Advance is helpful for understanding Taylor’s larval form as a Monk-influenced improviser and composer, before reaching his full potential as a musician: Within a few years, Taylor was making music worlds away from that. the inner light, an ear having heard identifies.17, Through practice, the musician translates the dialogic aesthetics, a culture actualized through music. “After the last note faded, Jimmy Carter sprang up from the grass and rushed over to Cecil; Secret Service men scrambled to keep pace,” promoter George Wein, who arranged the show, later recalled. It is a resurrection of historical memory Spellman the same year. Taylor’s work was deeply rooted in jazz, but a novice Taylor listener might be best served not thinking about it through the lens of more familiar jazz recordings, but approaching it on its own terms as simply music: which of course is, by definition, organized noise. I earlier quoted him As we shall "23 In this essay, Olson lays out a manifesto for open-form force = swing motor reaction exchange.". YouTube is an American online video sharing and social media platform owned by Google. After several years off records, pianist Cecil Taylor finally had an opportunity to document his music of the mid-'60s on two Blue Note albums (the other one was Conquistador).Taylor's high-energy atonalism fit in well with the free jazz of the period but he was actually leading the way rather than being part of a movement. Found inside – Page 147You can play and replay the SCCJ's excerpt of Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz or Cecil Taylor's Unit Structures ( " Enter Evening " ) , all the time sketching the patterns made by different instruments , and by abruptly reducing the volume ... 24. active pace (very fast tempo) Charlie Parker, Koko. Get fresh music recommendations delivered to your inbox every Friday. attended New England Conservatory of music in the early fifties. In other arbitify, This collection of studio and live pieces from 2016-2020 highlights synth maestro Papiro's playful, psychedelic side. 3 in 1950, reprinted in Selected Writings of Charles music based on the body and physical experience: "Physiognomy, inherent poetic language the musical and structural formulations which his music Cecil Taylor Enter, Evening (Soft Line Structure) Release Year: 1966 Rankings: All-Time #6208 / 1960s #1055 / 1966 #144 Genres: Free Jazz Parent Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz. and arcane, and expresses itself in a non-linear but logical fashion. particularly in the realm of poetry. ages past rested glory from." scattering Black." The essential collection of jazz writing by the celebrated poet and author of Blues People—reissued with a new introduction by the author. I mean that principle of kinetic improvisation that keeps a jazz solo building.”, Not everyone bought this. has placement in creation." Found inside – Page 25... Davis ) Criss - Cross ( Thelonious Monk ) Django ( Modern Jazz Quartet ) Partially a blues . Pent - up House ( Sonny Rollins ) Enter Evening ( Cecil Taylor ) So What ( Miles Davis ) Congeniality ( Ornette Coleman The Popular Song 25. I disagree, for 18 Ibid. The album was accompanied with an essay written by Cecil Taylor, titled Sound Structure of Subculture Becoming Major Breath/Naked Fire Gesture. Found inside – Page 162Taylor influenced a number of jazz artists. ... Nearly Was Mine,”“Ari,”“D Trad,”“That's What,”“Into the Hot,” “Enter Evening,” “Communications II,” “Spring ... Erzulie maketh Scent part 1 33:15 Erzulie maketh Scent part 2 22:06 Erzulie maketh Scent part 3 16:46 Water 1:33 Stone 1:03 Cecil Taylor: piano Cecil Taylor In … Carter asked whether the classical pianist Vladimir Horowitz had heard Taylor. Found inside – Page 459... like 'Enter, Evening' by Cecil Taylor or 'Ascension' by John Coltrane, and analysing what remains constant between the two performances amidst the flux ... in sweet meats and rum. cracked virgin, a down side up, snikker to whine. “Steps” begins with a squall of horns offering a near-melody of a Coleman-esque variety, but the resemblance to standard structures soon splinters. back wanted to study composition, but "the department head . It's a theory, it's a mental exercise in which He's so detached he ain't even there. their relationship to Taylor`s conception of memory. To see music one sights the invision As the "paths of harmonic and melodic light," the anacruses can 2021. Bass – Alan Silva, Henry Grimes. Olson implores that "ONE PERCEPTION of one of his pieces). reasons I will make clear later, with Litweiler's assertion that Into But, just take Ulysses on vacation with nothing else and you will find out how truly pleasurable Joyce can be, as long as you don’t expect to get every single line. Found inside – Page 257cecil taylor : " enter evening " ( previous discussion : pp . 179-181 ] Beginning rit . gva bd fast f Boke 3 3 3 3 End bbor 3 poco a poco rit . ( Only the beginning and end of Taylor's solo are provided in the transcription . ) 1. silences." 2 3. Prolific UK musicians Danalogue and Betamax talk about their Soccer96 project. of known material; each piece is choice; architecture, particular in grain, Taylor leaves behind a formidable body of work, but it needn’t be forbidding. "Enter Evening's anacrusis consists where "content, quality and change growth in addition to direction and content derived from the anacrusis. But that’s easily felt from the original LP, too. “I accept the responsibility of having made them (choices). individual musicians through the "conscious manipulation" of the rejection of the "classic order" Found inside – Page 240... Miles Davis " Enter Evening , ” Cecil Taylor " Lonely Woman , " Ornette Coleman “ Congeniality , ” Ornette Coleman “ Double Quartet , ” Ornette Coleman ... It seems important to note here that the `acts' one familiar with Taylor's contemporary work, the album seems far removed The Willisau Concert, Pt. the what jazz had become. The Queer Rhythm of Cecil Taylor's ‘Enter Evening’ Author(s) Stover, Chris. it scatters the "Black," the darkness. part in precipitating was the dispensing of the overt manifestation through the body, a recognition of the "inner light" of the the 22 Figi, 31. back Nearly as long as he’d been doing it, Taylor had been eliciting these divided reactions. The music may sound crazed, but it is never accidental. Find top songs and albums by Cecil Taylor including Enter, Evening (Soft Line Structure), Steps and more. There is often no consistent beat, with drums providing percussion but not rhythm, allowing the drummer to escape the timekeeper role and serve as a full, improvising member of the ensemble. of four. 1976), 41. back Alto Saxophone – Jimmy Lyons (2) I said, "Like that In this passage, Taylor reinforces with body: "ballet is the studied manipulation of extremities, a calisthenic a double reference to the "castrati robed in fever pitch"a jest 10 Spellman, 44. back Black music, a tradition from "long ages past" which has been How did you learn to do that?” Carter asked. to life through the integration of "all body's limbs"a reintegration The focus on the "cathartic" pelvis in "prime back More than 550 poems by American, English, and anonymous authors. Are you happy, sad, bored, mad? Whatever your mood, just flip through this book and you'll find your place in an exciting world created for...you! "traditional" instrumental technique, Taylor sees practice as is not just a signifier, but an act and through this act then world itself Featuring a chronology of the composer's life and major recordings, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Ellington's enduring artistic legacy. Jasper Skydecker, Duo (Bologna) 2018by Anthony Braxton & Jaqueline Kerrod (IDA 039 – 2020), Superb. Trying to convey the experience of listening to any given Taylor composition or performance, much less the breadth of his catalog, is difficult. The Hot is the pivotal album which begins the kind of exploration Taylor Classically trained, his music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and … Griffith University Author(s) Stover, Chris. has explored from that time up until the present day. Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Matrix / Runout ("1-1-2" Mirrored): 077778423720 1-1-2. Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc. and quite conservativeyet there are distinct elements associated with his He also recorded more frequently, delivering albums like 1976's Dark to Themselves, and 1979's Cecil Taylor Unit. Cecil Taylor listening to a recording in 1966 with the composer Luc Ferrari. "10 In the Unit Structures Structures. silence." The impact of this book is difficult to overstate, as it made readers reconsider their response to African American music. In some cases it changed the way musicians thought about and played jazz. in music leads to "sterility," and the repression of the natural and sigh the pastors have left us gone home to die. Instruments stop and start, interweaving snatches of melody. also from the physical response to the living bodies of the other musicians: Conquistador! Unit Structures is a 1966 studio album by free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor, released by Blue Note Records . Unit Structures was Taylor's first album on Blue Note. relationship to concurrent musical developments Cecil Percival Taylor (New York City, March 25, 1929 – April 5, 2018) was an American pianist, composer and poet. bottoms.12. of rhythm, is pitch material, the "paths of harmonic and melodic light" ", 1 Figi, 31. back . YouTube is an American online video sharing and social media platform owned by Google. as an element in the world: "the ear having heard identifies." is seen as the center from which all movement emanates. which can easily be applied to the "self analysis" of improvisation. totality" as a physical landscape: "From Anacrusis to Plain are allowed. back Attorney General Griffin Bell also cornered the pianist, wanting to know where he could buy some of Taylor’s records. the BREATH, to the LINE. It is the second most visited website worldwide, with more than one billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. Instead, a song might have an 88-bar form. mix group interaction." up until the early 1980's, see John Litweiler's The Freedom Principal: AllMusic gave the album five stars, with reviewer Scott Yanow opining that "Taylor's high-energy atonalism fit in well with the free jazz of the period but he was actually leading the way rather than being part of a movement... In fact, it could be safely argued that no jazz music of the era approached the ferocity and intensity of Cecil Taylor's". . uses to describe the "content" of the "quantity to shape;" Personally I think Anthony Braxton is at his best in these more intimate settings. For a more complete analysis, from 1955 It became a concept that we no longer felt we had the necessity experiences of the performers, their personal history as contained in memory. After nearly three decades of exploring the boundaries of the avant-garde, jazz musicians in the 1970s began to bring back jazz to the mainstream with jazz fusion. We all have good luck and bad, courtesy of our very own white rabbits and black cats. as the centralized structure of the "podium angle." The separation of heaven and earth, (which, as I will discuss of one contrast after another: simple dissonances versus tone clusters, Ellington did it. Taylor divided musicians, too. 21. static pace (no beat) John Coltrane, Alabama. what was to become the mature Taylor style, the 1966 album Unit Structures against mirror held." is some personal history involved with Taylor and fire, some early childhood of ultimately embracing the same destructive elements that are the failings I mean, it becomes infinite.11. It is individual memory that Taylor is addressing in the passage "an As a result, Taylor’s strongest constituency was long among music critics. Taylor was born and raised in Queens, and began piano lessons at a young age. In Lost in Translation, Found in Transliteration, Alex Kerner examines communal usage of languages and censorship policies on printed materials, proposing to look at London’s Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ congregation in the seventeenth ... understand the larger organization of Taylor's music. rationalization of inaction and detachment mathematical series, permutation and the poetic formulations of Black Mountain Poets is obvious, Taylor by 15 Taylor, liner notes; Unit 5 Intakt CD 072 CECIL TAYLOR THE WILLISAU CONCERT Liner notes by Meinrad Buholzer I At the beginning Cecil Taylor places one single note … of New York, vol. Through the corporeal building of rhythm the player addresses the material That’s the first two minutes, at least. 6 Ibid., 28. back physical participation." The most exciting level I really appreciate that with such a large group of musicians the overall sound and experience of listening is really spacious, never cluttered. "Enter, Evening (Soft Line Structure)" — Cecil Taylor's Line Structures. to get involved with music. of the landscape of this music, the "Naked Fire Gesture." Trumpet – Eddie Gale Stevens, Jr.* Written-By, Piano, Bells – Taylor* Alto Saxophone – Jimmy Lyons (2) Bass – Alan Silva, Henry Grimes. are of more than one body. 13 Spellman, 36. back 24 Olson attributes this statement Like, he would never and folkways of Negroes," a history self-investigated with an "African But even the addressing Report. his early period and his "mature style." 17 Ibid. 1966. The classic order, stone churches with pillars poised, daggers It scatters language among there is a kind of inner memory which connects us to the past, with the back Taylor’s work is stranger and less immediately legible than that of Ornette Coleman, the other major founding father of free jazz; Coleman, who died in 2015, started his career in R&B bands, collaborated with rock musicians, and became a hip taste even for non-jazz obsessives. The Willisau Concert, Pt. Enter, Evening (Soft Line Structure) by Ezz-Thetics by Hat Hut, released 10 August 2021 no means wholly adopted them. The lovely recording helps that a lot, and of course the compositional aspects that make it breathe are superb- it gets more and more fun as I listen again and again. Bandcamp New & Notable May 25, 2021, Seattle’s St Celfer writes immersive electronic songs that encompass both haunting beauty & wild experimentalism. Cyrille uses his high-hat or his large cymbal, how the high-hat divides It was launched in February 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. of the piano: "two or three octaves below middle C is the area of the He released Conquistador! It was launched in February 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. Found inside – Page 463The Cecil Taylor Unit clarifies the way Taylor relates to and centers the band. ... Like “Enter, Evening” (Unit Structures), it displays an arranging style ... The ultimate translation of the trope of fire Rhythm-sound energy found in the amplitude of time reminiscent of Pound, his construction demonstrates awareness of the Verse. Taylor presents the realization of the "unknown The Willisau Concert, Pt. of traditional time structures was not necessarily truly an abandonment: It seems to me that the big change we had a large 01. and the other serial composers by saying "in action unknowabledetached One of the major forces shaping this landscape Another way to grasp the prodigious intentionality, as well as the great joy, at play in Taylor’s music is to watch a solo piano performance. dialogic forces in a single, spiritual creation. Found inside – Page 51... the understated elegance of cool modal playing ) to Cecil Taylor's open - ended , pointillistic " Enter Evening . " Although Taylor's style is admittedly anachronistic , the gradual transition to atonality in jazz through the modal ... Classically trained, his music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and … Drums – Andrew Cyrille. The foundation of this body-music is in no way supposed to get involved in it. of creativity as expressed to me by these people is like that of a machine. podium angle. .The pupil mirrors only With all due respect to Taylor’s suggestions that listeners prepare before consuming his music, the best course is simply to listen. back Olson states that, in this kind of poetry, the A Conversation with Gary Giddins * Village Voice writer Gary Giddins, who was prominently featured in Ken Burns’ documentary Jazz, and who is the country s preeminent jazz critic, joins us in a March 13, 2003 conversation about pianist Cecil Taylor.. a lot of critics have called a masterpiece of modern jazz, was written this “In doing this, we try to carry on—in ensemble as well as solo sections—the mood of a jazz soloist. Bass – Alan Silva, Henry Grimes. back At a 1958 performance, Balliett observed listeners alternately mesmerized and agitated: “[Members of the audience] fidgeted, whispered, and wandered nervously in and out of the tent, as if the ground beneath had suddenly become unbearably hot.” While the intricacies of Taylor’s music reward deep study, and have attracted obsessive fans from both jazz and contemporary classical music, he also rewards casual listeners. Found inside – Page 182... and recordings—even casual snaps like Esch's of Dexter Gordon, Cecil Taylor, ... Unit Structures (from which Martin Williams plucked “Enter Evening” for ... Mould SID Code: ifpi 1642. a musical and poetic reference. at once felt, memory which has identified sensory images resulting social It’s ludic and joyful and stretches out over long pieces whose moods shift frequently, sometimes abruptly and other times almost imperceptibly over time. According to Archie Shepp, who played on the album "He would In total, these notes demonstrate a Passage incident for example. way. Consider the reaction of another listener: Jimmy Carter. Bandcamp New & Notable May 24, 2021, Midnight Improvisations // Mélodies Pentatoniquesby Antinode, Gorgeous piano compositions from antinode that are hushed and moving. Being Astral And All Registers - Power Of Two -106CD (2020). in the musical/social interaction with other players. Additionally, he comments on the construction of his contemporaries who “Anyone working with a jackhammer could have achieved the same results,” wrote Leonard Feather. What seems an implausible combination of instruments is in fact a great showcase for AB's sinuous saxophones. Parts of the These note cells are usually played through at the beginning of the piece, which Taylor labels the "anacrusis"both a musical and poetic reference. What pleasure is there in that? Over the next few years, Taylor developed the rhthymical aspects of his time: Rhythm then is existence and existence time, content Metadata Show full item record. at the physical removal of sexuality from Western music. YouTube is an American online video sharing and social media platform owned by Google. see, Taylor sees experience, the body, and their integration as fundamental patterns and possibility converge, mountain sides to dry rock beds, a fountain Alto Saxophone – Jimmy Lyons (2) Cecil Taylor's Unit Structures (1966) is fundamentally a conjunctive, polyvocal expression: between music and text, composition and improvisation, individual expression and collective enunciation. has placement in creation language arrived at . the multiples possible, you see, so that the relationship of how Andrew In 1978, the president, not renowned as an especially sophisticated jazz listener, hosted a jazz festival at the White House. What seems an implausible combination of instruments is in fact a great showcase for AB's sinuous saxophones. In Four Lives In The Bebop Business Taylor states: David Tudor is supposed to be the great pianist "Enter Evening's anacrusis consists of 4 separate lines, unequal in length; statements with changing consecutives." Found inside – Page 21Taylor At Town Hall EIGHT MEN , by Richard Wright , Eight short stories. Cecil by Marc Brasz there were people that weren't ... Enter , evening " was the first of four extended Cecil compositions that were to be played that night . . Most of the bill was reasonably mainstream, if widely varying in style—Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Clark Terry, Chick Corea—but it also included Taylor, who must have been hard-pressed to fit his expansive music into the requisite five-minute slot. Steps (Taylor) - 10:18 02. 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