Good Day for Cloud Fishing
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| Studio album by Ben Goldberg | ||||
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Publication |
2019 |
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2017 |
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| Label (s) | Pyroclastic Records | |||
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CD, download |
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jazz |
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Title (number) |
12th |
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59:59 |
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Michael Coleman, David Breskin, Kris Davis (Executive Producer) |
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Studio (s) |
Figure 8 Recording, Brooklyn, NYC |
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Good Day For Cloud Fishing is a jazz album by Ben Goldberg . The recordings, which were made in November 2017 in Figure 8 Recording Studio, Brooklyn, were released on August 23, 2019 on Pyroclastic Records .
background
The concept behind Ben Goldberg's album Good Day for Cloud Fishing , inspired by Dean Young's poems, can best be summed up in the words of the guitarist Nels Cline , according to Jon Ross in Down Beat . The album, he writes in the liner notes , contains "poetry-inspired music that was performed while the poet who inspired it typed new poems that were inspired by the music he inspired."
Mark Corroto described the process as follows: “First [Goldberg] reads a Young poem and writes a composition based on it. Then he records the song with guitarist Nels Cline and trumpeter Ron Miles while the poet writes a new poem in the studio based on the music he is listening to. "
Critic Kevin Whitehead gave an example of how the process played out: first, Dean Young wrote the poem A Rhythmia, and then Ben Goldberg accordingly composed his piece A Rhythmia for the trio. Here is the poem: “A mallet stops a horse race. / There is a dwarf in my face. / I rewind emptiness. / It rains in my raincoat. / A glance of glitter dislodges every cornea. "
When Young finally listened to the trio's recording without knowing which poem inspired them, he wrote a new poem, in this case Ornithology . It starts like this: “See that smoke? It's a person. See that funny stick thing? That'd be me, lucky to be wherever here is - me and my spine; me and my billion neurons. "(Translation:" Do you see the smoke? It's a person. Do you see this funny stick thing? That would be me, to be happy where [also] is here - me and my spine ; me and my billions of neurons ".)
The box in which the album is published contains twelve cards, on one side of which, called “Entry”, the original poems are printed and the resulting poem is printed on the opposite side, “Exit”.
Track list
- Ben Goldberg: Good Day for Cloud Fishing (Pyroclastic Records PR05)
- Demonic Possession Is 9 / 10ths the Law 2:22
- Parthenogenesis 5:30
- Phantom Pains 5:01
- A Rhythmia 2:38
- Corpse Pose 6:19
- Because She Missed a Test, She Introduces Me to Her Boa 4:38
- Reality 2:37
- Sub Club Punch Card 6:27
- Anti-Head Sutures 8:48
- Someone Has to Be Lowered Into the Whale Skull for the Ambergris 4:42
- Surprised Again by Rain 9:25
- An Ordinary Day Somewhere 1:18
The compositions are by Ben Goldberg.
reception
According to Mark Corroto, who reviewed the album on All About Jazz , Goldberg is riding the wave of jazz & lyric projects beginning with Kenneth Patchen's collaboration with Charles Mingus in the 1950s, Jack Kerouac and Zoot Sims , Allen Ginsberg and Hal Willner , to more recent works by Matt Wilson ( Honey and Salt: Music Inspired by the Poetry of Carl Sandburg ), Jane Ira Bloom ( Emily Dickinson ) and Benjamin Boone ( Philip Levine ). But deviating from this, there are no spoken lines in Goldberg's tribute. Rather, he is pursuing “a unique, let's call it Ouroboros approach to Dean Young's poetry. A circle closes with the work of the trio plus poet; Poetry inspires music and music inspires poetry, inspired by music. There is a touch of early jazz, some marches, dance music , blues , passages inspired by Hitchcock films and ideas based on Thelonious Monk , a favorite source for Goldberg. Ron Miles and Nels Cline perform the music with a grace and simultaneous frivolity that corresponds to a neo-surrealistic poetry reading without words. "
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Kevin Whitehead wrote for National Public Radio that clarinetist Ben Goldberg and producer David Breskin had come up with a strange idea, spurred on by their love for Dean Young's poetry. To be inspired by poetry offers composers many opportunities. You can overshadow the rhythms of a poem or hint at its mood or explore the changing vocal tones like the poet does. This is what the trio excels at; Nels Cline, for example, uses different guitar voices and volumes and clarinetist Ben Goldberg has his other, very deep voice - the great contral clarinet . The playfulness on both sides of the equation makes this mixed media project work, sums up Whitehead. It is an elegant little zigzag from literature to music and back again, a dialogue between aesthetic worlds. It also works because the players, like the poet, are so attentive to textures and surfaces, to the almost tactile nature of the sound.
Jon Ross wrote that even if the background to the creation seems a little too clever, the result is still intoxicating; the grouping of guitarist Nels Cline and trumpeter Ron Miles with Goldberg's various clarinets is inspiring. Miles' timbre - a dark, shadowed tone - sink into the woody warmth of the clarinet. Cline's guitar can be subtle or powerful - both with a sublime effect. By and large, the album is full of calm, composed music, some of which is rooted in a jazz aesthetic, while others digress and break through imaginary genre boundaries. It is beautiful, both in its integrity and in its calm mixture of sounds. Aside from the underlying lyric, many of the pieces would stand on their own, but some of the more impressionistic melodies that function as an abstract soundscape called for a resonant recitation of Young's verses.
Dave Sumner wrote in Bandcamp Daily that the process between the clarinetist and his trio with the poet created a closed loop of creative spontaneity and inspiration. Considered on the basis of his music, it would be a phenomenal work, but as a treatise on the limitless potential of each of us to evoke beauty in one another, it could be understood as a symbol of our hope and salvation as a species.
Web links
- Information about the album at Bandcamp
- Listing of the album on AllMusic (English). Accessed March 1, 2021.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Jon Ross: Ben Goldberg: Good Day For Cloud Fishing. Down Beat, September 1, 2019, accessed June 20, 2021 .
- ↑ a b c Mark Corroto: Ben Goldberg: Good Day For Cloud Fishing. All About Jazz, August 5, 2019, accessed June 20, 2021 .
- ↑ Ben Goldberg: Good Day For Cloud Fishing at Discogs
- ↑ Kevin Whitehead: Clarinetist Ben Goldberg Unites Jazz And Poetry On 'Good Day For Cloud Fishing'. National Public Radio, September 6, 2019, accessed June 20, 2021 .
- ↑ The Best Jazz on Bandcamp: August 2019. Bandcamp Daily, September 19, 2019, accessed June 21, 2021 .