Michel Benita - Looking At Sounds
Формат записи/Источник записи: [TR24][OF]
Наличие водяных знаков: Нет
Год издания: 2020
Жанр: Jazz, Contemporary Jazz
Издатель (лейбл): ECM Records
Продолжительность: 01:03:02
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Контейнер: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks
Разрядность: 24/88.2
Формат: PCM
Количество каналов: 2.0
Источник (релизер): highresaudio.comТреклист
1. Dervish Diva (7:57)
2. Berceuse/Gwell Talenn (4:02)
3. Looking At Sounds (8:39)
4. Barroco (4:03)
5. Slick Team (7:50)
6. Cloud To Cloud (2:28)
7. Body Language (6:45)
8. Elisian/Inutil Paisagem (4:56)
9. Islander (6:45)
10. Low Tide (4:20)
11. Never Never Land (5:17)Michel Benita, double bass, laptop
Matthieu Michel, fluegelhorn
Jozef Dumoulin, Fender Rhodes, electronics
Philippe Garcia, drums, electronics
Лог проверки качества
foobar2000 1.4.8 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2020-09-18 17:57:46
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Analyzed: Michel Benita / Looking At Sounds
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -0.98 dB -16.94 dB 7:56 01-Dervish Diva
DR12 -4.92 dB -21.69 dB 4:03 02-Berceuse/Gwell Talenn
DR11 -1.01 dB -16.07 dB 8:40 03-Looking At Sounds
DR13 -1.79 dB -18.67 dB 4:03 04-Barroco
DR12 -1.22 dB -17.66 dB 7:50 05-Slick Team
DR12 -4.17 dB -22.15 dB 2:28 06-Cloud To Cloud
DR13 -0.69 dB -18.21 dB 6:44 07-Body Language
DR12 -0.66 dB -16.53 dB 4:56 08-Elisian/Inutil Paisagem
DR12 -0.59 dB -16.91 dB 6:45 09-Islander
DR12 -3.38 dB -19.07 dB 4:20 10-Low Tide
DR14 -3.71 dB -22.12 dB 5:17 11-Never Never Land
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Number of tracks: 11
Official DR value: DR12
Samplerate: 88200 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1981 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Об альбоме (сборнике)
Algeria-born bassist Michel Benita, long a mainstay of the French jazz scene, introduces his revised quartet. Swiss flugelhornist Matthieu Michel and French drummer Philippe Garcia are retained from Benita’s Ethics band, and the quartet is completed by Belgian keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin. Dumoulin’s swirling, floating sounds and colours - he sounds like no other Fender Rhodes player - have inspired Benita to write evocative new music for the group. The repertoire also includes a bewitching cover version of Antônio Carlos Jobim’s “Inutil Paisagem”, the freely improvised "Cloud To Cloud", and a touching solo bass interpretation of Jule Styne’s “Never Never Land”. Looking At Sounds was recorded at Studios La Buissonne in the South of France in March 2019.
A musician at the heart of the French jazz scene since the early 1980s, Michel Benita (born in Algiers in 1954) honed his craft in the clubs and concert halls of Paris, working with an ever-changing cast of visiting stars, local players and expatriates. The original bassist in France’s Orchestre National de Jazz, he is by temperament an internationalist, welcoming the different accents and independent viewpoints that players from diverse regions can bring to group music. Benita made his ECM debut as a member of Andy Sheppard’s Trio Libero, in 2011, also appearing on Sheppard’s Surrounded by Sea (2014) and Romaria (2017). His first disc as a leader for the label was River Silver, recorded in 2015, with his group Ethics.
The quartet on Looking At Sounds retains Swiss flugelhornist Matthieu Michel and French drummer Philippe Garcia from the Ethics line-up and adds Belgian keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin. Largely responsible for the textural qualities of the revised group’s music Dumoulin uses his Fender Rhodes in a subtle, painterly way. His enveloping colours swirl around the harmonic framework of the pieces and imaginatively support the flights of the flugelhorn. If Matthieu Michel’s is often the lead voice, Benita’s group concept favours collective creativity over chains of solos. He encourages his musicians to build upon the melodic ramifications of the tunes and to “melt into a total, global sound,” a policy well-illustrated on the tune “Body Language” here.
With the exception of Matthieu Michel, who plays only flugelhorn on this recording, with a free, lyrical flair sometimes reminiscent of the late Kenny Wheeler, all members of the group make discreet use of electronics. Benita will periodically add a bass drone from his laptop. Garcia integrates real-time sampling into his percussive work. And Dumoulin processes his Rhodes through many effects boxes, pedals and reverbs to create a luminous patina of sound – see for instance the beginning of the title track, “Looking At Sounds”, whose name is its programme. “I like using a little electronics, as an additional instrument, almost, or to give the music a new direction,” says Michel Benita “even if our group spirit and our sense of dynamics are more those of an acoustic band.”
Benita writes most of the ensemble’s material, his compositions often built around a strong melodic line, a tendency that may reflect the bassist’s deep affection for folk music, which has long paralleled his commitment to jazz. The inclusion of “Berceuse” by the Breton harpist and singer Kristen Noguès mirrors this interest; the piece flows naturally into Benita’s “Gwell Talenn.” Love of melody also accounts for the presence of Antônio Carlos Jobim’s “Inútil Paisagem” which, in another transition, emerges from the Benita-composed “Elisian.” The lyrical impulse, in fact, underpins all pieces, including “Cloud to Cloud”, a group improvisation created in the studio.
The album begins with bass harmonics from Benita, and Garcia playing his kit with his hands on “Dervish Diva”. Bassist and drummer, musical partners for more than 20 years now (including a long period with trumpet player Erik Truffaz) play together with a shared feeling for rhythmic elasticity.
“Islander” is an autobiographical reference, alluding to Benita’s home base on L’îsle d’Yeu, off the west coast of France but also, with its syncopated rhythms, and hints of dubstep, to islands far away. “Low Tide” lilts very gently, with a nocturnal feel that is extended in the album’s final track, an unaccompanied bass performance of Jule Styne’s “Never Never land”, once again making evident Michel Benita’s feeling for melody and its implications.
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