Rising

ジャイルス・ピーターソン大絶賛!
UKジャズ界超新星サックスプレイヤー、ジャスミン・マイラセカンドアルバム『ライジング』リリース!マシュー・ハルソールプロデュース作品!

イギリス北部の都市リーズを拠点に活躍するサックス/フルート奏者/作曲家ジャスミン・マイラ。ケニー・ウィーラー、ボノボ、オラファー・アーナルズ、モーゼス・サムニーなど様々なアーティストの影響を受け、陶酔的で高揚感のあるサウンドを生み出す彼女はGondwana Recordsの代表マシュー・ハルソールの目に留まり彼のプロデュースのもと2022年に作成されたアルバム『Horizons』はレーベル、アシッド・ジャズのオーナーのジャイルス・ピーターソンが絶賛したこともあり大きな成功を収めた。この成功を土台にし
今作『ライジング』では自信と落ち着きを加えてより豊かで、より深い大きく成長した高揚感のあるスピリチュアルなサウンドを披露していく前作と同じメンバーで構成され、
マシュー ・ハルソールが再びプロデュース!ハニャ・ラニの音楽を手掛けたグレッグ・フリーマンがミックスを担当。

Jasmine Myra is a Leeds-based composer and multi-instrumentalist. Signed to Matthew Halsalls Gondwana, she delivered the carefully considered Horizons in 2022, a musical journey reflecting struggles with mental and emotional health during the pandemic. By her own admission, Rising is a musical continuation and reflects better times. She re-teams with producer Halsall and mixing guru Greg Freeman, guitarist Ben Haskins, pianist Jasper Green, harpist Alice Roberts, drummer George Hall, bassist Sam Quintana, and, on four tracks, a string quartet. Myras music is deeply influenced by the late trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, and expresses great admiration for the influences of Shabaka Hutchings, Makaya McCraven, and multi-instrumentalist/producer Bonobo (Simon Green). Five of these six tunes are between six and eight minutes long. The title-cut opener recalls the compositional styles of saxophonists Jan Garbarek and Jim Pepper, as well as the mature work of guitarist Pat Metheny. Introduced by an arco bass drone with piano and shimmering cymbals, Myra delivers the modal lyric in the tenors low register. A minute in, an overdubbed guitar goes into call-and- response with itself, as double bass and crystalline piano punctuate her statements. When Myra solos, she opts for the horns upper register and overdubs her flute as the band gradually ratchets the tension. The flute serves as primary driver on "Still Waters," a vampish dialogue in waltz time led by piano, bushed snare, double bass, and strings. She executes the primary melody on tenor, as her bandmates carry and expand the vamp. The intro on "Knowingness" is provided by harp, double bass, and Myras soprano saxophone. Haskins joins with intricate counter melodies before he, the saxophonist, Green, and Roberts engage in modal swing tracing minor melodies from the ether. Myra overdubs the tenor, creating a dramatic processional before taking it out with the entire band behind her. "Glimmers" initially sounds like a suite; Myras stacked saxes meet piano, guitar, and drums in shifting cadences and mercurial choruses, opening onto structured improvisation. Haskins guitar solo is elegant, poignant, and eerie. At less than three minutes, "From Embers" is an outlier. A lovely, chamber-like piece, it interweaves tenor with strings, guitar, flute, and cymbals, walking the tightrope between dirge and nocturnal reverie. Set closer "How Tall the Mountains" is introduced with Myras bass clarinet. Amid reverential tom-tom and bass drums, she plays a secondary melody framed by harp and guitar. When the piano enters, it seems Green will carry the harmony off in another direction, but Myra reasserts her vamps on layered saxes first, then flute and bass clarinet before the guitarist and harpist add groove. Myra answers them by dabbling in Andean folk music. Risings compositions are of a piece, making the album holistic. Myra and ensemble offer intricately structured compositions, played subtly and skillfully with abundant inspiration and heart. Indeed, it is almost as if Myras collaborators composed these pieces with her in real time on-stage. Magnificent. ~ Thom Jurek

作曲家/フルート/サックス奏者:ジャスミン・マイラの2024年作。彼女のメディテーションなアンサンブルはサン・ラの持つ"土"の匂いとは異なる"水"の流れ。"ECM系ジャズ/エレクトロニカ/アンビエントが同一線上にある解放感ある音楽"と称されるも納得。"ロックダウン後のメンタルヘルスの葛藤を克服"をテーマに、弦楽四重奏等をも加えた最大12人編成で制作された各曲は知的でメロディアス、深淵且つ高揚感溢れる新感覚スピリチュアル・ジャズの傑作。ええやんええやん。
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