Жанр: Spoken Word , Americana, Jazz
Страна-производитель диска: Hong Kong
Год издания: 2004
Издатель (лейбл): Songlines Recordings
Номер по каталогу: SGL SA1553-2
Страна: USA
Тип рипа: PS3, image (ISO)
Кодек: DST 2.0, 5.0
Битрейт аудио: 1 bit/2,8224 MHz
Продолжительность: 48:14
Источник (релизер): ManWhoCan
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: есть немного
Треклист:
01 Like a Ghost in the Grass
02 Our Particular Tragedy
03 20 Questions for an Outlaw
04 Nolan
05 River of Glass
06 Your Voice
07 Just Angels
08 Last Night
09 Little White Suit
10 Never to See You
11 Smart Women
12 Spun Like a Spur
Состав:
Rinde Eckert–voice;
Francois Houle–clarinet;
Jeff Reilly–bass Clarinet;
Dave Mott–baritone saxophone;
Christoph Both–cello;
Christian Kogel–guitars;
J. Anthony Granelli–bass, lap steel guitar;
Jerry Granelli–drums, samples
Об альбоме (сборнике)
Review By DAN MCCLENAGHAN,
Published: February 5, 2005 allaboutjazz.com
Jerry Granelli: Sandhills Reunion:
Like rocker Bruce Springsten with his Nebraska or author Annie Proulx with her 2 volumes of Wyoming stories, Jerry Granelli’s Sandhill Reunion —where his band accompanies Rinde Eckert’s words—evokes the American experience in the prairie heartland, placing poetic viginettes of small experience under a powerful microscope on a set of of jazz-backed prose poems that explore Billy the Kid, a bygone strip joint, a kiss blown at a wedding from the violinist to a small boy in a “Little White Suit,” & roughneck workers constructing a bridge over a “River of Glass,” dangling “like a grey spider” on the end of a taut rope to inspect the rivets & bolts.
The music, composed variously by members of the band, swells with swirling reeds—clarinet, bass clarinet, baritone sax, cello/bass/guitar, & Granelli’s drums. It blows moody & cool around Eckert’s words like a prairie fog; or chugs into a reedy bump & grind on “Just Angels,” a tale that takes us into a bygone “Godforsaken den of inequity.”
Sandhill Reunion is unlike anything I’ve heard, but the mood it draws—going back more than 30 years—is the same as that of Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding or the Band’s The Band : odd, folksy, sometimes surreal tales, very American in nature, told with a simple eloquence entwined with superb yet understated musicianship. An odd, poignant masterpiece.