专辑名称: 《Lands End》 艺 术 家: Cirrus 音乐类型: Jazz 唱片公司: Opus 3 发行时间: 1998年 资源品质: CD
Artist: Cirrus Album: Lands End Released: 1998 Source: Opus 3 | CD 19803 Genre: Jazz / Meditative / New Age / Contemporary Review: by Simon Groome (hi-fi+)
This album was briefly mentioned in my Opus 3 overview in issue 8, but I feel it requires a fuller examination. As I noted, the sounds are suggestive of the best of ECM's jazz recordings, with Ari Haraldsson's sax sounding like a less disconsolate version of Jan Gabarek's. The music is a pleasant mix of, evocative, new age with a hint of the avant-garde. The occasional appearance of the Didgeridoo brings an ethnic feel to the proceedings - Nordic trolls and dragons go down-under! All the compositions are original, and the album is full of expression, invention, and proficiency. The sound is excellent, in the usual Opus 3 way, but with one of the largest, and deepest, soundstages I remember from this source. The guitars can appear way outside the speakers and you can sit back and wallow in the natural acoustics. Very natural tones, and a tangible sound to the percussion, help to give the sound real life. Each time I have heard this album it has grown on me more. If you are not sure of this CD on your first listen, give it time. You could be pleasantly surprised.
Cirrus was started in 1992 reaching its present form in 1997 which comprises two acoustic guitars, tenor and soprano saxophones, didgeridoo, melodica double bass and percussion, here playing their owncompositions.
This somewhat unconventional line-up of instrumentation was brought about by the individual musicians needs to break away from the accepted norms associated with jazz, pop and rock - fields in which all of the group have already had considerable experiences - and give range to their musical creativity in composition, musical expression, improvisation and indisputable talent.
In order to do justice to this the debut album of Cirrus, it was necessary to take advantage of the outstanding acoustics of B?linge church thus capturing every possible nuance of this very special record. The only problem would appear to be that since Cirrus was formed to break away from the conventional categories of jazz, pop and rock etc. it will need to be filed in a very special category of its own - or Opus 3 - which amounts to the same thing.
One reviewer wrote a year ago, "playful new jazz with Nordic roots" - maybe this is one way of describing Cirrus' music!
This album was recorded using two acoustic guitars, tenor and soprano saxophones, didgeridoo, melodica, double bass and percussion. All the songs are their own compositions and are light and airy in timbre (perhaps like a cirrus cloud), recorded in the nice acoustics of a church.
You might also describe it as quite modern jazz music but still very melodic and very appealing to a broad spectrum of listeners.
Personnel: Ari Haraldsson: Soprano Sax, Tenor Sax and Didgeridoo Hans Nyman: Acoustic Guitar and Melodica Peter Nilsson: Acoustic Guitar Anders Grop: Double Bass Patrick Robertson: Percussion
01 Leaves (Hans Nyman) 02 November (Hans Nyman) 03 Suspect Sustain (Anders Grop) 04 Rain (Hans Nyman) 05 A Ango Tango (Hans Nyman) 06 Lands End (Peter Nilsson) 07 But Still-Song For V (Anders Grop) 08 9 Circles (Peter Nilsson) 09 Dragon Song (Peter Nilsson) 10 Untitled (Anders Grop) 11 To Monika (Peter Nilsson)
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