Ich höre gerade ... Jazz

[lotterlotta]

....ein wenig abbey lincoln kann nie verkehrt sein.....+

[lotterlotta]

MILES DAVIS - In Person Friday And Saturday Nights At The Blackhawk, Complete (1961/2003)
Jahrezehntelang hatte ich nur die einzelnen LPs, jetzt habe ich mir endlich mal die Complete-Edition besorgt - eine meiner wenigen Miles-Lücken, die noch zu schließen waren. Das ist schon ein enorm reizvolles Gesamt-Dokument.

.....wäre auch ein schönes reissue auf lp zum 100. gewesen....hätte mich sehr gefreut...

[atom]

Da gebe ich dir Recht, lotterlotta. Aber wahrscheinlich hat das Material nicht den Stellenwert, um eine Edition zu rechtfertigen. Die Idee einer Complete-Columbia-Box mit dem 1961er Material, so wie sie gypsy skizziert hat, wäre jedenfalls sehr verlockend.

Bei mir jetzt

[redbeansandrice]

Jozef Dumoulin - This body, this life

Das zweite Soloalbum von Dumoulin... Auf dem ersten hatte er nur Fender Rhodes gespielt, keine weiteren Tricks... Auf diesem hier kombiniert scheinbar jeder Tracks eine Klavier Spur und eine Fender Rhodes Spur mit allem was sonst noch nötig ist... Die Beschreibung auf Bandcamp ist ungewöhnlich erhellend, weswegen ich sie hierher kopiert, einschließlich dem Fazit "the result is a collection of 14 highly original pieces of music, designed like a palace full of magic doors and gates". Cover und Albumtitel gefallen mir auch super, das eine ist als Klavier geboren, das andere als Fender Rhodes aber am Ende sind wir alle... irgendwas.

‘This Body, This Life’ is Jozef Dumoulin’s second solo work. The first, ’A Fender Rhodes Solo’, came out in 2014 and achieved cult status rapidly after its release. But whereas the latter was the product of a restrictive exercise (no overdubs and only one single keyboard allowed, namely the vintage Fender Rhodes), ‘This Body This Life’ offers an explosion of different timbres and sonorities. We hear not only the Fender Rhodes, but also piano, synthesizers, electronic beats, voices, guitar and a lot of field recordings. Jozef explains:

“A couple of years ago a producer and label-owner proposed to me to make an album where I would mix piano and Fender Rhodes. At the time I was thinking of recording a second Fender Rhodes solo and was reluctant to the idea of adding the piano to the equation. I feared it would drastically change the focus, pulling the Fender Rhodes back to that uninteresting position of ‘electric piano’. However, I liked the idea of making a record as an answer to a challenge, so I accepted to play the game.”

Very soon after I started the first sketches the producer pulled out due to artistic differences; I guess he had some genuinely nice and soothing music in mind that I wasn’t ready to deliver. Still, by then I was too hooked up to the enterprise to just leave it so I decided to move forward on my own.

My method has been as simple as it has been time consuming: I recorded a lot of Fender Rhodes improvisations and a bunch of piano improvisations. I made pre-selections for both recordings and then took the time to see what piano would fit what Fender Rhodes. Once I established a certain number of compatible pairs, I considered that everything was allowed to make them into self-sufficient, working pieces of music. After all, I had to reunite water and fire; or at least that was the feeling I got.”

The result is a collection of 14 highly original pieces of music, designed like a palace full of magic doors and gates, enabling a limitless journey through time and space, or - if you will - into the depths of oneself.