Dawn

（不足10人评分）

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共11首歌曲

艺人: Build an Ark
语种: 英语
厂牌: Shaman Work
发行时间: 2007年09月25日
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by Thom Jurek

When Build an Ark, the fine multi-generational, transcultural, multi-disciplinary Los Angeles jazz and soul musician's collective, released Peace with Every Step back in 2004, it got notices overseas and in the home territories on the West Coast, but by and large it entered a void. Those who did hear it were struck by its originality, warmth, emotion, and sophistication; those who didn't missed out. Luckily that set, released on the tiny Kindred Spirit imprint, wasn't a one-off. Dawn is the group's sophomore full-length on the excellent Shaman's Work label. Co-founded and directed by Carlos Niño and Adam Rudolph, the collective hasn't lost any of its core members, and if anything is larger, it's the talent in the lineup, which contains some ace veterans in Rudolph, spiritual jazz vocalist Dwight Trible, and trombonist Phil Ranelin, violist, composer, and arranger Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Niño, drummers Alan Lightner, Dexter Story, and Harris Eisenstadt, percussionists Derf Reklaw-Raheem and Andres Renteria (in addition to Rudolph), bassists Trevor Ware (bowed), Nick Rosen and Nedra Wheeler, percussionist, saxophonist and flutist Joshua Spiegelman, guitarist Damon Aaron, percussionist Munyungo Jackson, harpist Rebekah Raff, bassoonist Sara Schoenbeck, pianist and Wurlitzer organist Nate Morgan, cellist Peter Jacobson, and vocalists Gaby Hernandez, Sheila Govindarajan, and Tracey Hart. What do they sound like? Like the title of the album, the first kiss of the sun as it emerges from the night sky. They owe the great spiritual jazz traditions built by labels like Tribe, Strata East, and Impulse, but they sound like no one but themselves. Though many of these players come from outside the jazz tradition, and indeed those from it come from the outer edges like Trible, who was with Archie Shepp and Horace Tapscott, and Ranelin, a co-founder of Tribe and session man extraordinaire. That said, this music is decidedly inside. It's inside the human heart whether they are performing Pharoah Sanders' "Healing Song" or Atwood-Ferguson's "Morning Glory." Vocalists, pianos, bass, percussion, guitars, harps, and the like function as a whole. This is not a blowing session with the individual members investigating the outer realms and their own virtuosity at exploring it. ...