John Surman - Words Unspoken (2024)

Posted By: popsakov
Date: July 3, 2024

John Surman - Words Unspoken (2024)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u + Log ~ 340 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 185 Mb
Full Scans | 01:01:45 | RAR 5% Recovery
Modern Creative / Contemporary Jazz / Post-Bop / Avant-Garde Jazz
ECM Records #ECM 2789 / 586 2035

British saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer John Surman turned 80 in 2024. During six decades of laudable achievement, he has recorded and performed in dozens of configurations from solo to big band, chamber quintet to orchestra conductor. Words Unspoken is Surman's first ECM date since 2018's trio offering, Invisible Threads. It marks a reunion with the remarkable, Oslo-based American vibraphonist Rob Waring. Award-winning British guitarist Rob Luft (whose solo albums on Edition have won international praise) and Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen balance the quartet. The bandleader brought some sketches into the studio and passed them out without specific instructions as to who would play what when. He wanted the recording to sound like the band created it spontaneously by wedding modern jazz, avant improv, and folk music in the moment.

"Pebble Stone" commences with Waring's arpeggiatic theme before Strønen and Luft join him. The guitarist adds a tempered, contrasting chordal pulse which he doubles on the high strings. Surman enters on soprano, playing an Eastern-tinged folk melody buoyed by washed guitar sounds, thrumming kick drums and tom-toms, and a circular vibraphone vamp. They ride it until the halfway mark when Surman begins soloing like a snake charmer. The sparse instrumentation and minimal theme recall work he did with oudist Anuoar Brahem and Dave Holland on 1998's Thimar. The proceeding title track is a study in layered textures, resonance, and space. Surman, on baritone, floats above and below his bandmates playing a lyric that embraces noir cinema, ambient electronics (courtesy of Luft's rainbow palette of sounds), and lithe, nearly contemplative post-bop. A mysterious root theme foreshadows the limber baritone-and-guitar interplay on "Graviola." "Flower in Aspic" is a halting ballad carried by a conversation between vibes, soprano and guitar in a ballad. The band enters "Around the Edges" with Waring, Luft, and the ever-imaginative Strønen, establishing a spectral drone from chord voicings, low-register mallet invention on vibes, and a broken, unfixed beat. Surman's baritone centers itself on that pillow of sound then investigates it in his solo. Luft introduces "Onich Ceilidh" with probing guitar lines that open a harmonic door for Surman's soprano atop a gorgeous, waltz-like swing from the ever-dazzling Waring (his solo here is a set highlight) and Strønen before Surman carries it out with a rhythmic statement on baritone. "Bitter Aloe" is a subtle yet canny post-bop improvisation. On closer "Hawksmoor," Surman's bass clarinet duets with Strønen in a lyric melody reminiscent of the Jimmy Giuffre Trio. Halfway through, Waring joins the vamp, then solos, before entering intricate dialogue with Surman. They introduce Luft, whose airy chords and sonics buoy the drummer in framing a fingerpopping frontline conversation. Words Unspoken erases boundaries between styles and genres, and this quartet's members listen so closely, they don't overshadow or step on one another – they're always conscious of their individual places inside the group. The control, drama, and intimacy Surman supplies on this album sets it alongside his best recordings on the shelf.

~ Thom Jurek, All Music
Discogs

***************

Track List:

01. Pebble Dance [6:19]
02. Words Unspoken [6:35]
03. Graviola [6:08]
04. Flower in Aspic [5:23]
05. Precipice [5:29]
06. Around the Edges [4:20]
07. Onich Ceilidh [8:07]
08. Belay That [7:23]
09. Bitter Aloe [5:12]
10. Hawksmoor [6:53]

Exact Audio Copy V1.6 from 23. October 2020

EAC extraction logfile from 17. February 2024, 12:41

John Surman / Words Unspoken [ECM 2789]

Used drive : ASUS BW-16D1HT Adapter: 1 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\FLAC.EXE
Additional command line options : -8 –verify -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" %source%


TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 6:18.56 | 0 | 28405
2 | 6:18.56 | 6:34.11 | 28406 | 57966
3 | 12:52.67 | 6:07.42 | 57967 | 85533
4 | 19:00.34 | 5:22.61 | 85534 | 109744
5 | 24:23.20 | 5:28.71 | 109745 | 134415
6 | 29:52.16 | 4:19.43 | 134416 | 153883
7 | 34:11.59 | 8:06.41 | 153884 | 190374
8 | 42:18.25 | 7:22.28 | 190375 | 223552
9 | 49:40.53 | 5:11.55 | 223553 | 246932
10 | 54:52.33 | 6:52.31 | 246933 | 277863


Track 1

Filename G:\EAC\01 - Pebble Dance.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.00

Peak level 69.6 %
Extraction speed 2.4 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC C47709E5
Copy CRC C47709E5
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK

Track 2

Filename G:\EAC\02 - Words Unspoken.wav

Peak level 72.8 %
Extraction speed 2.8 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 5FF25639
Copy CRC 5FF25639
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK

Track 3

Filename G:\EAC\03 - Graviola.wav

Peak level 71.4 %
Extraction speed 3.0 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 7C97B608
Copy CRC 7C97B608
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK

Track 4

Filename G:\EAC\04 - Flower In Aspic.wav

Peak level 72.4 %
Extraction speed 3.3 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 2BA42CBA
Copy CRC 2BA42CBA
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK

Track 5

Filename G:\EAC\05 - Precipice.wav

Peak level 87.7 %
Extraction speed 3.5 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 151B57DB
Copy CRC 151B57DB
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK

Track 6

Filename G:\EAC\06 - Around The Edges.wav

Peak level 67.8 %
Extraction speed 2.6 X
Track quality 99.9 %
Test CRC 9AB782DD
Copy CRC 9AB782DD
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK

Track 7

Filename G:\EAC\07 - Onich Ceilidh.wav

Peak level 74.2 %
Extraction speed 3.9 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 4D5E4F15
Copy CRC 4D5E4F15
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK

Track 8

Filename G:\EAC\08 - Belay That.wav

Peak level 87.7 %
Extraction speed 4.2 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 040EF992
Copy CRC 040EF992
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK

Track 9

Filename G:\EAC\09 - Bitter Aloe.wav

Peak level 70.2 %
Extraction speed 3.3 X
Track quality 99.9 %
Test CRC A97032D7
Copy CRC A97032D7
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK

Track 10

Filename G:\EAC\10 - Hawksmoor.wav

Peak level 67.7 %
Extraction speed 4.5 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 23E16A93
Copy CRC 23E16A93
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK


None of the tracks are present in the AccurateRip database

No errors occurred

End of status report

–– CUETools DB Plugin V2.1.6

[CTDB TOCID: bc8KwUyXKfVsNcJz94teXlkJZU0-] disk not present in database
Submit result: bc8KwUyXKfVsNcJz94teXlkJZU0- has been uploaded


==== Log checksum C45F7214FB2759F24B3F91841E3A525DB044B5759B95CEC9ED5F991B6DC73A54 ====

All thanks go to the original ripper(s) …

>>> My Blog <<<

DOWNLOAD: