Elixir
Mazur, Marilyn & Garbarek, Jan
Beskrivning:Den dansk-amerikanska slagverksdrottningen Marilyn Mazur blev ett världsnamn under sitt samarbete med Miles Davis på 1980-talet. Att uppleva henne live är en ynnest. Det här albumet är till stora delar ett rent soloprojekt, men på ungefär hälften av spåren medverkar Jan Garbarek ts/ss/fl. Marilyn har f ö i många år ingått i Garbareks turnégrupp.
"...the solo pieces are the first remarkable aspect of this set. When Mazur works alone, her pieces defy everything we think we know about solo percussion recordings: there is a warmth and directness in these proceedings that is songlike rather than merely hypnotic or virtuosic. There is much to tell here, not merely to show. These short works are, in effect, aural stories. They arise from her intuitive understanding of an instrument and sound as well as her improvisational abilities as a percussionist, but they emerge as almost sung narratives told on her array of bells, marimba, bowed vibraphones, log drums, udu, cymbals, gongs, waterphone, hang, and metal utensils....When she works with Garbarek, the sheer intuitive nature of their communication is simply startling. They do know one another well, but this is truly out of the ordinary. To be honest, as fine as Garbarek's own records have been, listeners haven't really heard him play like this for many years. The structured melodies and dynamic reaches in "Orientales," for instance, come from a very simple idea that he modulates on and returns to over and over again, but his intonation and sense of attack are very different than on his own records. Likewise, the tribal-sounding "Dunun Song" allows for the saxophonist to take his tenor and dance along a thematic idea that is as rooted in blues and New Orleans music as it is in African cultures....In fact, the manner in which this album is structured draws the listener from front to back without once being overwhelming. Indeed, if anything, one is drawn increasingly and with great fascination into these gorgeous rhythmic poems, as if to a new land that is simultaneously welcoming and strange. Fantastic." (Thom Jurek, allmusic.com)
21 spår; speltid 55 min.
Språk:
Skivbolag: ECM 1962 (2005)
Format: CD
Skick: Begagnad
Spår:
- Clear
- Pathway
- Dunun song
- Joy chant
- Bell-painting
- Elixir
- Orientales
- Metal dew
- Mother drum
- Mountain breath
- Creature walk
- Spirit of air
- Spirit of sun
- Sheep dream
- Talking wind
- Totem dance
- The siren in the well
- River
- On the move
- Winter wish
- Clear recycle