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Originally Posted by alltunes
“Why you typically don’t lead a six-piece band with an acoustic guitar is because you can’t be heard! I am shocked that we are able to pull that one off”: Julian Lage on the electric shuffles and engineering miracles behind his most daring album yet | MusicRadar
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03-04-2024 06:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Ryan Painter
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Originally Posted by wolflen
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That was a great interview/article. I haven't downloaded the album yet, but if alot of it is like "As It Were" (the audio is in the article), I'll love it. I don't think of it as a "jazz guitar record", but as a "jazz record", period. It's interesting how the framing of it can affect your first impressions. Whereas I listen to Squint (for example) to hear Julian play his version of jazz guitar, I'll listen to Speak To Me for the overall musical vibe.... in that way it reminds me alot of Bill Frisell.
Lage sees Speak To Me as “a record of spirituals, a form of gospel,” and at times a melancholy work.“I like to think of it as a more three-dimensional emotional landscape than I have ever tackled on a record,” he says. When there are all these emotions floating around, then mood can shape the narrative and take it where it needs to go.”
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Gave it a listen. I kind of love it. Starts off like something from a David Lynch movie, then takes a bunch of twists...
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I like the bit at 4:46 that sounds like a few Vince Guaraldi lines. He must've liked it too because he played it earlier in the song.
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Interesting album. To date my favorite is *Squint*. *Modern Lore* is the most consistent, the steady trio sound on all tunes.
Lage never seems to have improv over freely improvising drums and bass. More often a steady backbeat is the accompaniment.
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Just listened to the album. I really like it. I like the bigger band with a horn/woodwind. Actually makes me want to go back and listen to the acoustic Julian I haven't explore yet, like Worlds Fair.
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Originally Posted by Stefan Eff
Sometimes I am surprised by reactions of listeners when an artist plays something seemingly out of the box. For instance, I can fully appreciate such disparate offerings from Miles Davis like kind of blue vs. On the Corner. Or say George Benson albums like the cookbook vs. Absolute Benson. I would never expect an artist....especially a jazz artist, to keep painting the same picture.
I thought Julian's northern shuffle was just him expressing some of his Americana side. It sounded a bit reminiscent of Ry Cooder.
I liked it.
I just saw his trio with Joey Baron on drums about a week ago and I'm still so inspired by what they did that night that I've been writting tunes and playing better than I have in a while. It was truly amazing.
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New interview!
Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold
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