Jess Gillam – TIME (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jess Gillam – TIME (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:58 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following her debut album Rise, which reached No. 1 in the UK Classical chart, Classic BRIT Award-winning saxophonist Jess Gillam has announced her new album Time will be released on 25 September 2020. Watch the video for the first single from the album, Luke Howard’s ‘Dappled Light’, written especially for Jess Gillam, released today.

Following her debut album Rise, which reached No. 1 in the UK Classical chart, Classic BRIT Award-winning saxophonist Jess Gillam has announced her new album Time will be released on 25 September 2020. Watch the video for the first single from the album, Luke Howard’s ‘Dappled Light’, written especially for Jess Gillam, released today.

Jess Gillam’s new album Time mirrors the arc of energy in a passing day and the constant orbit of our existence. With a huge range of styles, moods and influences, from classical to techno and minimalism to alternative pop, the music offers the listener a space to immerse themselves in an oasis of sound and reflection.

The recording includes two new commissions by contemporary classical composer Luke Howard and Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory. Howard’s ‘Dappled Light’ is a reflection on early dawn and Gregory’s ‘Orbit’ is a reflection on the hustle and bustle of day.

The album is centred around Michael Nyman’s virtuosic masterpiece for saxophone and orchestra ‘Where the Bee Dances’. Jess Gillam recorded the concerto with the Aurora Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Collon, at Abbey Road Studios. She performed the work in the final of BBC Young Musician in 2016 and the piece has inspired her from a young age.

Jess Gillam’s Time also features pieces by multi-faceted, pioneering and genre-breaking artists and composers including Anna Meredith, Brian Eno, Thom Yorke, Björk and James Blake alongside familiar classical names such as Philip Glass, Max Richter and Joby Talbot. Jess Gillam carefully curated the recording to be experienced as a whole, accompanying the listener through the unrelenting cycles of life itself.

Tracklist:

1. Jess Gillam – Monk: Early Morning Melody (Transcr. Parkin for Soprano Saxophone) (00:58)
2. Jess Gillam – Howard: Dappled Light (04:11)
3. Jess Gillam – Suspirium (Arr. Rimmer) (03:50)
4. Jess Gillam – Glass: Truman Sleeps (Arr. Parkin) (02:40)
5. Jess Gillam – Meredith: Bubble Gun (Arr. Ross) (03:35)
6. Jess Gillam – Nyman: Where the Bee Dances (16:36)
7. Jess Gillam – Gregory: Orbit (04:20)
8. Jess Gillam – Björk: Venus as a Boy (Arr. Metcalfe) (04:04)
9. Jess Gillam – On the Nature of Daylight (Arr. Mackay) (06:21)
10. Jess Gillam – Glass: Melody for Saxophone No. 10 (02:04)
11. Jess Gillam – Blake: Retrograde (Arr. Rimmer / Maydew) (03:41)
12. Jess Gillam – Talbot: Transit of Venus (04:17)
13. Jess Gillam – Eno, Hopkins, Abrahams: Emerald and Stone (Arr. Lawson) (02:16)

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