Noise of Our Time
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| Studio album by Ken Vandermark Nate Wooley , Sylvie Courvoisier and Tom Rainey | ||||
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| Label (s) | Intakt Records | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
9 |
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44:11 |
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Patrik Landolt |
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Studio (s) |
Octave Audio, Mount Vernon, New York |
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Noise of Our Time is a jazz album by Ken Vandermark , Nate Wooley , Sylvie Courvoisier and Tom Rainey . The recordings, which were made on August 17, 2017 at Oktaven Audio in Mount Vernon, New York, were released on September 21, 2018 on Intakt Records .
background
During Ken Vandermark's multi-day stay at The Stone in January 2016 (documented on Momentum 1: Stone , Audiographic Records, 2016), he met Nate Wooley, Sylvie Courvoisier and Tom Rainey. The three musicians performed there alongside Vandermark; the trumpeter Nate Wooley had already formed half of a duo with Vandermark. They then agreed to make joint recordings and a year later went into the studio with nine compositions - three each by Courvoisier, Vandermark and Wooley.
Track list
- Ken Vandermark / Nate Wooley / Sylvie Courvoisier / Tom Rainey: Noise of Our Time (Intakt CD 310)
- Checkpoint (Sylvie Courvoisier) 5:03
- Track and Field (Ken Vandermark) 6:39
- Sparks (Sylvie Courvoisier) 3:44
- The Space Between the Teeth (Nate Wooley) 6:12
- Day (Ken Vandermark) 4:32
- Songs of Innocence (Nate Wooley) 4:17
- VWCR (Sylvie Courvoisier) 4:00
- Truth Through Mass Individuation (Nate Wooley) 4:03
- Simple Cut (Ken Vandermark) 5:41
reception
In the opinion of John Sharpe, who gave the album the highest rating of five stars in All About Jazz , the talent summit actually does what the title promises. “The quartet creates a comprehensive portrait of the state of the art, in which what is believed to be noise is skillfully recontextualized in a musical situation. In a way, the members have done this during their illustrious careers. Given their daunting skills as improvisers, perhaps the surprise here is that they do so through the medium of composition. "
Thomas Conrad wrote in JazzTimes that it is remarkable how a small jazz ensemble transforms when the bassist is omitted, especially when the drummer never plays for time. Instead, Tom Rainey sprinkles accents and splashes with timbres. "The result is that the other three players are playing in the open." The quartet here had never played as a band until they recorded this record in a four-hour session. Courvoisier's melodies are the funniest, says Conrad; Vandermarks are denser and more complex. Those of the trumpeter Nate Wooley are again wonderfully strange: “The Space Between the Teeth” alternates between drones, hectic eruptions and long, exciting silence, while “Songs of Innocence” begins formally and stately and becomes hair-raising clarinet / trumpet harmony. The ability of this album to surprise is immense. Nothing in the first eight tracks prepares for the measured grace and melodic serenity of Vandermark's “Simple Cut”. But in the end, that's how it should be.
According to Gustav Lindqvist (Free Jazz Blog) this is an album with great individual performances from some of the best artists in the genre. Individual strengths and personal voice mingled with the extreme ability to listen to what others were playing. You experience nine pieces with a length of three to six minutes, which is unusual for a Vandermark collaboration, in which longer performances with long improvised sections are often combined with composed ideas.
Web links
- Information about the album at Bandcamp
- Listing of the album on Allmusic (English). Accessed January 1, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ken Vandermark / Nate Wooley / Sylvie Courvoisier / Tom Rainey: Noise of Our Time at Discogs
- ↑ Ken Vandermark / Nate Wooley / Sylvie Courvoisier / Tom Rainey: Noise Of Our Time. All About Jazz, January 7, 2019, accessed June 23, 2020 .
- ^ Thomas Conrad: Noise of Our Time. JazzTimes, December 14, 2018, accessed June 22, 2020 .
- ^ Gustav Lindqvist: Noise of Our Time. Free Jazz Blog, September 23, 2018, accessed June 23, 2020 .