Movements In Colour

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Movements In ColourOpis:Product Description Established for over 25 years as a successful composer and performer, Andy Sheppard is one of the few British musicians to have made a significant impact on the international jazz scene, playing and writing for settings from solo to big band and chamber orchestra. He’s composed over 350 works that incorporate a strong and characteristic sense of lyricism alongside a very personal use of rhythms from Asia, Africa and South America. Recent years have also seen a growing fascination with new music technologies. He has been described as a serial collaborator, playing, recording and developing new music with artists such as Brazilian percussionist Nana Vasconcelos, Indian violinist L Shankar, contemporary classical composer/performers John Harle and Joanna MacGregor, late singer songwriter John Martyn and a myriad of leading jazz figures – including the rare hat-trick of three of the seminal composers in contemporary jazz – Carla Bley, George Russell and the late Gil Evans. On Movements In Colour the British saxophonist heads an extraordinarily gifted international quintet in a set of self-penned pieces, all buoyant and strongly melodic. The music also bears other Sheppard famed characteristics - inventive use of texture and an unerring sense of rhythm which sets the pace for world jazz at its unclassifiable best. Sheppard’s elegant saxophone and the strongly-contrasting guitars of John Parricelli and Eivind Aarset are lifted up by the rhythmic drive of Arild Andersen’s muscular bass and the crisp, dynamic tabla of Kuljit Bhamra, a regular collaborator with Sheppard and a key figure in the Asian pop and bhangra movements.

Review Andy Sheppard's debut outing on the arthouse ECM label takes him out of an exclusively jazz context and into one which includes tonal fluidity, reciprocity between instrumental voices and the accommodation of other musical influences. These include African, Latin and Indian; combined in atmospheric, free-flowing and tuneful experiments in acoustic and electronic sounds within a cumulatively entrancing array of colours and moods.

Although the seven new pieces are all credited to Sheppard, they owe much to the tight ensemble (and, just as noticeably, the improvisational vitality) of his four collaborators. Prime amongst them must be tabla player Kuljit Bhamra and guitarist John Parricelli, both of whom are longtime Sheppard associates and regular fixtures in his eponymous quartet.

Bhamra's tabla vies with Sheppard's soprano and tenor saxophones for focal (and, indeed, vocal) point throughout. Augmented by snare drum, cymbals and other percussion, Bhamra adds considerably more than mere rhythmic pacemaking. Parricelli proves himself again to be one of the most nimble and nuanced guitarists around; his sound enlarged in both breadth and depth by the additional, no less sensitive and subtle, guitar of Eivind Aarset. And underpinning all is the magnificently precise double bass of Arild Andersen, full of character and definition while also moody and mellow.

A large part of the album's signature is due to Aarset and Andersen's delicately engineered electronics that lend things a pleasingly hazy, soft-edged daydream-like quality. Sheppard's own loose, long-limbed and gravity-free melodies float and dance on air to always striking, often exquisitely beautiful effect. Manfred Eicher's characteristically understated production providing the perfect frame for an extended tonal experiment that veers between wistfulness and carefree glee with manicured ease. --Michael QuinnFind more music at the BBC This link will take you off in a new window Review (4 stars) Displays both Sheppard's lyrical imagination and the melodic knack of his regular bandleader, Carla Bley...lyrical, playful and accessible. -- The Guardian, (John Fordham), April 3, 2009(4 stars) These five musicians combine to kaleidoscopic effect...warm, upbeat, yet reflective music beautifully played and recordAutor:Andy SheppardNośnik:Audio CDPłyt:Język: Data wydania: 2009Waga: 0.22 gramWysokość: 0.4 cmSzerokość: 5 cmDługość: 5.6 cmRecord Label: EcmCountry Of Release: EUYear Of Release: 2009UWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.