Music is Connection

マリア・シュナイダー・オーケストラ他、現代のラージ・アンサンブルのシーンで必要不可欠の実力とセンスを持ったライアン・ケバリー。フラッグシップ・アンサンブル、カタルシス、約5年ぶり6作目となる待望の新作が登場!
カミラ・メサ、ホルヘ・ローダー、エリック・ドゥーブ、現代の才能が各々アップデートして再び結集
ジャズ、ブラジル、南米音楽、至高のポップ・センス・・etc.
メンバーの個性と、結成から10年をこえる時の共有が化学反応を起こした11編
今の時代に向けたメッセージも込められた、2020年代、コンテンポラリー・ジャズの金字塔

Trombonist and keyboardist Ryan Keberle and his Catharsis ensemble offer a dreamlike blend of modal jazz and Brazilian sounds on 2024s Music Is Connection. The group, which has been together since at least 2016s Azul Infinito, features guitarist/vocalist Camila Meza, bassist Jorge Roeder, and drummer Eric Doob. They are led by Keberle, a globally minded performer who regularly splits his time between New York, Brazil, and France, heading projects that touch upon post-bop jazz, classical, Brazilian, and Latin traditions. With Catharsis, he manages to pull almost all of these genres together, crafting deeply lyrical and harmonically atmospheric songs that evoke a blend of influences from the exploratory 70s fusion of artists like John McLaughlin and Wayne Shorter, to the poignantly rendered Brazilian folk and pop of singers like Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso. Many of Catharsis sonic textures are centered on Meza, whose sparkling guitar work and delicate vocals lend them an enveloping, golden-hour warmth. Often, as on "Throwback Moves" and "Sound Energy," she sings in a wordless lilt, harmonizing with Keberles vocals and synth accents before they take turns soloing in their own spiraling, kaleidoscopic lines. While much of the album has a circular, hypnotic quality, there are tonal shifts, as with the driving rock kineticism of "Hammersparks" and their languid, swooningly romantic reading of Milton Nascimentos ballad "Vera Cruz." Theres also the ebullient Keberle original "Arbor Vitae," featuring sometime-member saxophonist Scott Robinson, whose reedy, linear tenor work nicely brings to mind the relaxed 60s bossa nova of the Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto collaborations. With Music Is Connection, Catharsis make their own brand of contemporary mood music, one thats as relaxing as it is stylistically boundary-pushing. ~ Matt Collar