The Out Louds
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11 |
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The Bunker, Brooklyn |
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The Out Louds is a jazz album by Ben Goldberg , Mary Halvorson and Tomas Fujiwara . The recordings, which were made on December 18, 2014 in the studio The Bunker Brooklyn, were released in 2016 on Relative Pitch Records .
background
The trio The Out Louds formed Tomas Fujiwara on drums, Ben Goldberg on clarinet and Mary Halvorson on guitar. Previously, Halvorson and Fujiwara played together as part of a trio called Thumbscrew . The self-titled debut of the collaborative trio The Out Louds was their first album together. The trio's music is not about compositions, wrote Don Phipps, but rather about "sound research" and collective improvisation based on developing musical themes. The eleven pieces from The Out Louds are named after flowers that grow in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden .
Track list
- Tomas Fujiwara + Ben Goldberg + Mary Halvorson: The Out Louds (Relative Pitch RPR1042)
- Starry / False
- Trout Lily
- False Goat's-Beard
- Yellow Queen
- Obedience
- Pink Home Run
- Preference
- Old blush
- Black Garlic
- Nearly wild
- Pink double knock out
reception
According to Don Phipps, who reviewed the album in All About Jazz , this music has a mental rigor - give and take, send and reciprocate. It is also the musical equivalent of a conversation between three gifted, extremely talented, close friends. Although each track is named after a flower, The Out Louds described their music as “sound research,” the author noted. “It is no different than a laboratory with playful experiments that model effects and at the same time demonstrate empathy. Here formalism and beauty are combined. And it's not just music, but also the space between the notes. "
S. Victor Aaron wrote in Something Else! , like the flowers they are named after, these songs enjoy a fragile existence, only in the moment they are played. This is where the uniqueness of their music lies: “It could be more deconstructed than constructed, but neither are they random noises. There is a lot of contemplation in every movement and beyond that they move together. Although the music is very instinctual, the thought of what comes out of your thoughts before you even carry it out through your instruments becomes more important than the instruments themselves. ”In Aaron's opinion, Tomas Fujiwara, Ben Goldberg and Mary Halvorson are first class musicians who found a lot in common because they put more emphasis on artistic performance than on the skill required for their production.
JA Besche wrote on the Free Jazz Blog that this trio represented some of the brightest and most versatile talents in jazz today. Halvorson has an impressively idiosyncratic voice on the guitar that plays on recordings that range from uncomplicated jazz to rock to harder post-rock music and abstract ideas of freer improvisation. Fujiwara has led a variety of bands and kept the rhythm for an incredibly diverse and diverse group of composers and other band leaders. Ben Goldberg was one of the first jazz musicians to experiment with forms of traditional / ethnic Jewish music, and his playing usually merges lyric, rhythmic and exploration. On the present album, these players are set in a very nuanced style, says the author. Fujiwara is very expressive about his kit and attracts a whole range of sounds and textures, ranging from driving rhythms to disjointed micro-examinations of time and space. Goldberg play lyrically, melodically and abstractly at the same time. His playing evokes virtuosity, tightly wound runs, interspersed with abstract pointillism, and merge into simple melodies, which in their tone and tempo have an almost serene pastoral effect. Halvorson's timing, phrasing and choice of notes are perfect as usual.
Although Fujiwara, Goldberg and Halvorson are routinely cited as distinctive composers and virtuosos, wrote Troy Collins, in this abstract setting their intuitive interplay becomes the standard for a series of compositions improvised collectively and spontaneously in real time. Fujiwara, Goldberg and Halvorson used a unique instrumental line-up, according to Collins, “that puts greater emphasis on creating a powerful soundscape over obvious technical possibilities, and at The Out Louds they bring to life a strange and exotic realm that is different from many similarly unconventional Efforts differentiate. "
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Don Phipps: The Out Louds: The Out Louds. All About Jazz, December 5, 2017, accessed June 12, 2020 .
- ↑ a b S. Victor Aaron: Tomas Fujiwara, Ben Goldberg + Mary Halvorson - The Out Louds (2016). Something Else !, April 9, 2016, accessed June 12, 2020 .
- ↑ JA Besche: The Out Louds. Free Jazz Blog, June 12, 2016, accessed June 12, 2020 .
- ^ Troy Collins: Moment's Notice: Reviews of Recent Recordings. Point of Departure, May 6, 2016, accessed May 7, 2020 .