Brad Mehldau has been documenting his jazz piano mastery in trio and solo settings since the mid-’90s. But he also uses the studio to access other aesthetic realms, as he has before on 2002’s Largo (which featured flickers of hip-hop) and on 2014’s Mehliana: Taming the Dragon, with Mark Guiliana on drums and electronics. Guiliana resurfaces in a big way on Finding Gabriel, bu...(展开全部) Brad Mehldau has been documenting his jazz piano mastery in trio and solo settings since the mid-’90s. But he also uses the studio to access other aesthetic realms, as he has before on 2002’s Largo (which featured flickers of hip-hop) and on 2014’s Mehliana: Taming the Dragon, with Mark Guiliana on drums and electronics. Guiliana resurfaces in a big way on Finding Gabriel, but as one component in a larger sonic canvas inspired by various biblical verses. Alongside the piano, Mehldau uses OB-6 synthesizer, Therevox, Moog Little Phatty (for rich bass tones), and other tools for a lush, modern sound, flecked with broken-beat elements or calmer rock-oriented grooves. A celebratory hip-hop chant of “hey hey hey” breaks out on “St. Mark Is Howling in the City of Night,” and it returns during the title track, which, like “O Ephraim” and “Born to Trouble,” features Mehldau alone playing all parts, including drums. There are also horns or strings on some tracks, beautifully orchestrated, at times with a dense, almost Bartókian dissonance (not to mention hellish soloing from trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm). But most notably there are voices—those of Becca Stevens, Gabriel Kahane, Kurt Elling, and also Mehldau himself, weaving in and out to create a kind of spooky grandeur heard in classical works like Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms or Fauré’s Requiem. Unlike those pieces, both of which used Latin text, Mehldau’s vocal parts are all wordless—though he does recite verses from the Book of Daniel on “Finding Gabriel” and speak pointedly about the political climate on “The Prophet Is a Fool.” In all, it’s one of Mehldau’s most ambitious and unexpected efforts to date, full of power, mystery, and lament.
Source: Jazzwise Author: Selwyn Harris Finding Gabriel signals a radical departure from Mehldau's very recent recording projects, namely his stellar acoustic trio's Seymour Reads the Constitution and solo piano investigations of JS Bach on After Bach. Firs...
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1 有用 momo 2020-12-29 14:35:12
太棒了!很有气节的音乐。美妙的爵士乐也能用来反应社会问题、反抗体制。
0 有用 Song³ 2019-05-29 22:32:25
Finding Gabriel / Born to Trouble / St. Mark Is Howling in the City of Night / Proverb of Ashes
0 有用 PineappleSlice 2019-12-30 16:07:57
born to trouble 好好听啊!
0 有用 Olson 2020-07-26 03:53:06
目前2020年所听专辑中的最佳。狂乱、宏大又有神性,几乎是站在上帝视角的一部作品了。
0 有用 ___ 2019-10-27 21:30:08
Mark Guiliana相当抢戏了
1 有用 Montparnasse 2024-03-25 10:32:38 内蒙古
let‘s get out of here
0 有用 认真脸儿 2024-08-24 19:24:56 浙江
美啊!耳目一新
0 有用 かぜとともいく 2023-12-25 22:08:54 山西
@2022-09-26 16:18:40 @2023-03-04 07:20:15
0 有用 Yi 2022-12-27 23:09:48 河南
3.5
0 有用 16岁女高中生 2022-11-21 11:57:07 山东
寻找加布里埃尔