For “Prism”, Dave’s latest recording, he’s assembled a quartet of outstanding players together with composers who are also leaders inwards their ain right, Kevin Eubanks on guitar, Craig Taborn on pianoforte together with Fender Rhodes, together with Eric Harland on drums. The recording is representative of the broad attain of musical references that these musicians contain into their music together with it features compositions written yesteryear each of them for the group.
The album takes the listener through many musical landscapes starting alongside the infectious funky groove of the Eubanks’ composition “The Watcher” followed yesteryear 1 of Holland’s compositions, “The Empty Chair”, a soulful blues that hints at references to the music of Jimi Hendrix. Craig Taborn’s “Spirals” creates an intriguing setting for the grouping that moves through a serial of dramatically changing musical developments together with Eric Harland’s hauntingly beautiful composition “Breathe” provides a musical infinite that seems to suspend time.
The groups of Dave Kingdom of the Netherlands induce got ever reflected a collaborative spirit alongside the finish of creating a musical context that allows the musicians to limited their creative individuality. “Prism” brings together 4 musicians who are each forging their ain musical path together with together induce got created a unique together with contemporary musical disputation on this recording.
It’s a bully record. Part of what makes Prism audio specifically similar “fusion” is the preponderance of tunes that practise non “swing” inwards the common feel but are instead built on tricky riffs that interlock alongside a groove that is heavy on backbeat. The opener, Eubanks’ “The Watcher”, begins alongside a funky work from the left paw of Taborn’s Fender Rhodes electrical piano, together with and then Eubanks doubles it earlier he climbs on hap alongside a distorted but rattling unproblematic melody. The audio is thick alongside fuzz together with buzz from both Eubanks together with Taborn. All of it would brand for a satisfying track, but together with then a tricky together with precise couple department comes along for pleasing relief. Taborn’s solo is the standout here: mathematical together with intriguing every bit it moves together with reverses, surges frontward together with doubles-back on itself.
Bassist Dave Kingdom of the Netherlands kickoff became a leader-on-record alongside Conference Of The Birds (ECM, 1973), a now-classic outré quartet session. That initial leader appointment portrayed Kingdom of the Netherlands every bit a restless seeker, willing together with eager to explore the inner workings of grouping dynamics together with the outer reaches of convention, together with he's done lilliputian to modify that perception of himself inwards the intervening years. Kingdom of the Netherlands has, alongside band afterwards band together with album afterwards album, continually broadened his outlook, creating a vast together with enviable trunk of move along the way. Now, he celebrates 4 decades of leadership yesteryear introducing some other strong foursome to the world.
On Prism, Kingdom of the Netherlands reunites alongside 3 musical spark plugs from his past: guitarist Kevin Eubanks, who appeared on the bassist's Extensions (ECM, 1989), drummer Eric Harland, who worked side-by-side alongside Kingdom of the Netherlands inwards The Monterey Quartet together with and then joined him for Pass It On (Dare2 Records, 2008), together with pianist/Fender Rhodes homo Craig Taborn, who's shared the phase alongside the bassist on a let on of occasions over the yesteryear few years. As individuals, these gentlemen rank high on many a critic together with fan's listing of players; together, they cast the most exciting together with awe-inspiring quartet to debut on tape this year.
The music this band delivers on Prism is similar a vortex, sucking inwards everything inside earshot. Interlocking patterns, excoriating lines, killer grooves together with blazing solos are par for the course. Democracy prevails inwards all aspects, every bit each band fellow member contributes music, musculus together with to a greater extent than along the way. "The True Meaning Of Determination" is the perfect example of this one-for-all together with all-for-one philosophy. Kingdom of the Netherlands draws focus alongside his bass introduction, melodic delivery is a articulation enterprise betwixt 2 band mates, Eubanks' guitar singes everything inwards sight, Taborn takes the spotlight together with has a smash chopping upwards the fourth dimension alongside Harland, together with everybody comes together to crusade it home. It's nine-plus minutes of pure, heart-pounding bliss, together with it doesn't fifty-fifty stand upwards to a higher identify the other tracks; nearly every functioning hither has a similar endorphin-producing effect. The band does operate inwards other areas, from the bluesy together with soulful ("The Empty Chair (For Clare)") to the contemplative together with costless floating ("Breathe"), but they retain a grouping identity no thing where the music takes them. They audio best when they burn, but they nonetheless audio similar the same unit of measurement when they simmer or remain put.
Prism isn't precisely a bully album yesteryear a bully band; it's every bit expert every bit jazz records come. Four months may carve upwards this album's liberate together with the closed of 2013, but this 1 may induce got already sealed it upwards for "Album Of The Year" honors.
On Prism, Kingdom of the Netherlands reunites alongside 3 musical spark plugs from his past: guitarist Kevin Eubanks, who appeared on the bassist's Extensions (ECM, 1989), drummer Eric Harland, who worked side-by-side alongside Kingdom of the Netherlands inwards The Monterey Quartet together with and then joined him for Pass It On (Dare2 Records, 2008), together with pianist/Fender Rhodes homo Craig Taborn, who's shared the phase alongside the bassist on a let on of occasions over the yesteryear few years. As individuals, these gentlemen rank high on many a critic together with fan's listing of players; together, they cast the most exciting together with awe-inspiring quartet to debut on tape this year.
The music this band delivers on Prism is similar a vortex, sucking inwards everything inside earshot. Interlocking patterns, excoriating lines, killer grooves together with blazing solos are par for the course. Democracy prevails inwards all aspects, every bit each band fellow member contributes music, musculus together with to a greater extent than along the way. "The True Meaning Of Determination" is the perfect example of this one-for-all together with all-for-one philosophy. Kingdom of the Netherlands draws focus alongside his bass introduction, melodic delivery is a articulation enterprise betwixt 2 band mates, Eubanks' guitar singes everything inwards sight, Taborn takes the spotlight together with has a smash chopping upwards the fourth dimension alongside Harland, together with everybody comes together to crusade it home. It's nine-plus minutes of pure, heart-pounding bliss, together with it doesn't fifty-fifty stand upwards to a higher identify the other tracks; nearly every functioning hither has a similar endorphin-producing effect. The band does operate inwards other areas, from the bluesy together with soulful ("The Empty Chair (For Clare)") to the contemplative together with costless floating ("Breathe"), but they retain a grouping identity no thing where the music takes them. They audio best when they burn, but they nonetheless audio similar the same unit of measurement when they simmer or remain put.
Prism isn't precisely a bully album yesteryear a bully band; it's every bit expert every bit jazz records come. Four months may carve upwards this album's liberate together with the closed of 2013, but this 1 may induce got already sealed it upwards for "Album Of The Year" honors.
Track Listing:
01 The Watcher [6:56]
01 The Watcher [6:56]
02 The Empty Chair (For Clare) [8:31]
03 Spirals [8:46]
04 Choir [4:49]
05 The Color Of Iris [7:27]
06 Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 New Day [7:51]
07 The True Meaning Of Determination [9:19]
08 Evolution [10:24]
09 Breathe [5:40]
Personnel:
Dave Holland, bass;
Kevin Eubanks, guitar;
Craig Taborn, pianoforte together with Fender Rhodes;
Eric Harland, drums.
05 The Color Of Iris [7:27]
06 Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 New Day [7:51]
07 The True Meaning Of Determination [9:19]
08 Evolution [10:24]
09 Breathe [5:40]
Personnel:
Dave Holland, bass;
Kevin Eubanks, guitar;
Craig Taborn, pianoforte together with Fender Rhodes;
Eric Harland, drums.
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