The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers...

Jack DeJohnette e Bill Frisell gravaram ao vivo, no Festival de Earshot em Seattle , em Outubro de 2001, um disco excepcional.

O disco The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers traz-nos um trabalho ao vivo, mas também muito trabalho em estúdio: «If the album sounds like the work of more than two people, there is a good reason. “I immediately thought that the music lent itself to some studio production,” DeJohnette explains. “I called in my sound engineer, Ben Surman [son of the UK sax luminary John Surman]. I gave it over to Ben to decide how to add things, like the bass lines and ambient sounds and other percussion.” The bass parts on the title track and the vocal chants on “Ode to South Africa ” are just two examples of Surman's artistry (Surman also played a major role on DeJohnette's previous Golden Beams release, The Ripple Effect ). But the line between live and studio isn't always so clear on The Elephant Sleeps . Frisell recalls: “I was using my delay-sampler-looper to manipulate my own guitar sounds.” DeJohnette adds: “I used my electronic hand percussion, a Roland HPD 15. That also has gamelan bells, frame drums and extemporaneous sounds that I don't have names for"».