Country: USA
Genre(s): Avant Prog, Experimental
Format: CD, digital
Release date: April 25, 2015
Tracklist:
1. Entry (2:38)
2. Bend (3:59)
3. Come Home (4:35)
4. The Lost Tapes (3:08)
5. Leggy Mare (1:03)
6. Green Circles (2:54)
7. Floater (4:45)
8. Filter Sweep (4:35)
9. Quickstep (9:21)
10. Standby (4:56)
11. Botanica (4:45)
12. Under Dead Elms (5:46)
13. Evening Light (7:36)
Line-up:
Farrell Lowe - guitar, piano, percussion
Dave Willey - accordion, bass, guitar, hurdy gurdy, keyboards
Elaine Di Falco - keyboards, vocals
Ron Miles - cornet
Mark Harris - sax, flute, percussion
Raoul Rossiter - drums, percussion
Description/Reviews:
Here it's last Ligeia Mare full album release. A project from Colorado, and one of my favorite in the art of combining many musical languages into a new and always morphing shape. With this work they are closer to jazz improvisation, but with an high level of abstraction due to the mix of tonality and atonality, sudden changes into music development, and usual electronics presence. It's enough to listen to Lost Tapes, a masterpiece in that sense, to have a concrete idea of what I mean. A piece where, some of you, will recognize echos of 70's american and european jazz experimentation, but in the same time will be dazed and confused by the morphing into a smoky and dreaming musical landscape. More traditional, but very enjoyable jazz rock in Floater, with a certain cinematic attitude (crime- jazz-movies), while the absolute anarchy "reigns" in Filter sweep; and concrete music in the first part of Botanica, before to fade towards a melancholic trumpet melody, that joins a Spanish acoustic guitar and sensual female voice. The release ends with Under Dead Elms where musicians pay their tribute to Miles Davis, and Evening Light, a more traditional dark jazz ballad. Actually a work I mainly recommend to jazz-improvisation followers, but so beautiful, that every listener with wide range of interest into advangarde music, can enjoy it. (Review by Ra Sonologyst)Media/Samples
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