Janel Leppin
Janel Leppin 「Ensemble Volcanic Ash: To March Is to Love」 LP
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| 発売日：2024年05月31日 / ジャンル：JAZZ / フォーマット：LP / 構成数：1 / 製造国：輸入 / レーベル：Cuneiform Records / SKU：045775052915 / 規格品番：RUNE529V |
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| Janel Leppin is one of the most restlessly creative forces in 21st century jazz and rock. Her recorded history includes duo outings with her husband, guitarist Anthony Pirog, a self-issued digital release in 2006, and playing on recordings by Eyvind Kang, Marissa Nadler, Rose Windows, and art-punk outfit PRIESTS. Her solo and session discography includes Sister Mirror (an improv album with Susan Alcorn and Meghan Habibzai); the Mellow Diamond recording (her indie singer/songwriter project where she plays a dozen instruments), and Songs for Voice and Mellotron. She founded and leads the vanguard jazz-rock sextet Ensemble Volcanic Ash, and records duo sets with Pirog as Janel & Anthony. To March Is to Love is EVAs second album -- their eponymous debut appeared in 2022. Leppin plays cello and piano and is assisted by guitarist Pirog, bassist Luke Stewart, drummer Larry Ferguson, and saxophonists Sarah Hughes (alto) and Brian Hughes (tenor). The album contains 11 instrumental compositions, recorded over a single day in 2023 balancing modern composition with improvisation. The set is bookended by two tribute tracks, the brief "Ode to Abdul Wadud," a jazz cellist whose work with Julius Hemphill on Dogon A.D. provided Leppin lifelong inspiration, and "Casals Rainbow" for legendary cellist Pablo Casals. Both men were musical revolutionaries, while Casals participated in politics, too. The former commences with a drum solo before Leppin and Pirog join his crashing cymbals in a sequence that straddles a line between jazz and prog. "Tennessees a Drag" is centered on a repeating cello vamp adorned by guitar, bass, rolling tom-toms, with the twinned sax lines articulating a forceful yet melodic structure that in places recalls early King Crimson. "Union Art" is a riff-centric prog tune with glorious improvisation during its final half. "Oh Johnny Dear" is a complex, knotty chamber jazz composition using cello as the root the band revolves around. "Sateatime," in waltz time, weds modern chamber music to the ensembles jazz progression. The title track is offered in two distinct parts: the first is essentially an introduction with interwoven electric guitar, arco bass, and cello; Sarah Hughes alto carries the vamp and Brian Hughes tenor adds gossamer fills. The longer second section commences with foreboding interplay by tenor, guitars, bass, and restrained cello. Stewart begins improvising and the band answers with a vamp-like chord progression. Two minutes in, the saxes take over the fore, pulsing a vamp before Leppin solos atop rumbling tom-toms and a biting electric guitar. When the saxes return, the jam breaks into avant-jazz with kinetic interplay. Leppin plays piano solo on the fugue-like "Casals Rainbow." She initiates a scalar progression in lower middle register, then, without abandoning it, weaves in another in the higher register as well as ostinato fills and trills. To March Is to Love reveals whats possible when top-shelf players communicate in carefully articulated compositions; they allow for individual freedoms that add weight and dimension to the EVAs utterly original sound. ~ Thom Jurek |
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・構成数 | 11.LP
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