Janel Leppin
Janel Leppin 「Pluto In Aquarius」 CD
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| 発売日：2026年03月27日 / ジャンル：JAZZ / フォーマット：CD / 構成数：1 / 製造国：輸入 / レーベル：Cuneiform Records / SKU：045775055824 / 規格品番：RUNE558 |
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| Pluto in Aquarius is the third album from cellist Janel Leppins Ensemble Volcanic Ash. It follows 2024s aclaimed To March Is to Love. Fans of the quintets sometimes chaotic weave of formal composition and improvisation are in for something different here. These compositions and arrangements are lower to the ground, more intimate, and spacious even at their most adventurous. The avant chamber group of their first two outings has given way to a rawer, looser approach by these Washington, D.C.-area luminaries that include guitarist Anthony Pirog, bassist Luke Stewart, tenor saxophonist Brian Settles, and drummer Larry Ferguson. Leppin plays cello and the Yamaha CP-70 electric grand piano. There is tension here, but its developmental not urgent. It exists in the interplay, not the composition. Opener "Mountain Pose" offers a nearly processional intro by cello, guitar, piano. As bass and drums enter the flow they pace the frontlines steps and wanderings creating a tune that walks between film music, folk music and progressive jazz. Leppins electronically treated solo introduces Settles, who plays the margins. The title track is introduced by bass and snares in a noir-ish vamp before its theme emerges with droning electric guitar and saxophone. The cello paints the quartet from the back before she offers a soulful solo full of distortion. The band adds a shuffling pace and Settles joins her solo in the foreground. "Hope Marathon" follows a deliberate structure as the cello sings lyrically and modally above and through the ensemble in its solo. "Point Thy Sword" is introduced by a rockist vamp from cello, drums, and bass; it breaks down into a chamber music-esque equation with sax, cello, and bass tracing patterns off each other. "Susan Was a Warrior" is introduced as a shimmering 4/4 jazz ballad before Settles tenor deviates from the changes to move afield aided by piano, bass, and drums. Leppins solo shifts both cadence and harmony before she winds it down. "Our Time" is a rock song complete with a vamped progression, taut interplay between guitar, cello, and saxophone, and searing solos from Pirog and Leppin, while "Old Guard" is almost a free jazz interlude."We See Dark Money" is essentially a chamber work with dissonant drones from guitar, cello, and bass coloring the foreground. Its answered by "Jazz Is Resistance" fueled by a prog rock vamp that introduces Pirogs squalling guitar break. "New Guard" is an exercise in mournful post-bop while "The Collective" and "Cruel Motherfuckers" are both canny, dissonant group improvisations. "Deerhood Is God," marries a funky rock cello vamp to dirty guitar and rumbling upright bass before Leppin solos from the spaces between them. Pirog breaks out next, using distortion boxes in an overdriven solo framed by cello, bass, and drums until it abruptly ends, and closes out this bracing album, too. Pluto in Aquarius is a heady, adventurous listen, but its colored by intimacy, haunting melodies, and soulful progressions that reveal a different, very welcome dimension in the quintets powerful musical aesthetic. ~ Thom Jurek |
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