The Spike Orchestra - Splintered Stories (2020)
The Spike Orchestra - Splintered Stories (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 353 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 145 Mb | 01:01:47
Jazz, Modern Big Band, Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Tzadik Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 353 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 145 Mb | 01:01:47
Jazz, Modern Big Band, Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Tzadik Records
Director Sam Eastmond composed and arranged these works for the 15-piece big band Spike Orchestra, as he examines the power and magic of words through stories, splintered and fragmented through resonance and dissonance, merging influences, styles and instrumental colors over four expansive works yielding inspired moments in orchestration and soloing.Tracklist:
"Splintered Stories is the brilliant new CD by Sam Eastmond of the Spike Orchestra, whose sparkling arrangements of Masada compositions were a highlight of both The Book of Angels and Zorn's Book Beri'ah. Filled with startling instrumental colors, fiery solos, driving rhythms and moody harmonies, the music is brilliantly performed by this tight 15-piece big band and lovingly mixed by Marc Urselli. Cutting edge big band music for the 21st century by one of the most powerful ensembles working today!"-Tzadik
"Anyone who has been reading our reviews over the last ten years knows that we've been lauding the re-emergence of the "avant-garde big band" - a loose category that includes works from Darcy James Argue, Brian Krock, Anna Webber, Nathan Hubbard, Lauren Elizabeth Baba, Dan Weiss, and many others. Here we have another prime example, with Sam Eastmond leading his Spike Orchestra through a set of four pieces that explore musical spaces in multiple dimensions - instrumentation, textures, dynamics, and style.
I first heard Spike Orchestra as contributors to John Zorn's recent Masada efforts, and certainly appreciated the group's take on his compositions. But in Splintered Stories, we have an opportunity to point out where Eastmond is both similar and different. Not unlike Zorn, Eastmond merges and blends styles, from free jazz to swing, rock to klezmer. This takes the form of heavy chording, marches, open-ended blowouts, as well as numerous powerful and distinct melodies that often overlap with one another. But Eastmond's writing tends to tell stories and feature logical progressions that vary from Zorn's approach.
Assisting Eastmond is an army of performers with emphasis on walls of horn and reed-based instruments, as well as electric guitar, piano, bass, and drums. Case in point, Matriarch Variations includes a baritone sax solo over horn and reed explorations that are both jagged and playful. Then the rhythm section cuts in to support a multiphonic set of soloing backed by wandering rhythms and themes. The piece finishes up with a classically-oriented and percussive piano solo before returning to one of its main motifs.
Hear & Now plays around with the Peter Gunn theme and variations thereof. Indeed, repeated listenings of Splintered Stories turns up a few other familiar-sounding breaks, though none that I could easily identify. Nonetheless, these repeated listenings will be rewarding. There is a plethora of activity on this album that takes time to unpack. Well done."-Mike, AMN Reviews
1. The Pink Shagpile Carpet Story AKA The King Of Spank (18:36)
2. Matriarch Variations (15:14)
3. Here & Now (17:03)
4. Standing On The Shoulders Of Giantslayers (10:54)
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The Spike Orchestra / Splintered Stories
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