Caroline Davis

Caroline Davis – Portals, Vol. 1: Mourning (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:30 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Jazz
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One challenge of this frustrating time has been finding methods to handle grief. The loss of loved ones, enforced isolation, and abounding uncertainty have only heightened anxiety and its painful effects. Learning how to cope with grief and work through it is imperative for one’s mental health.

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Caroline Davis – Heart Tonic (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:47 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Jazz
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For the past four years, saxophonist/composer Caroline Davis has been tied up in matters of the heart. Her focus is multi-tiered, however. There are the metaphorical facets, including her feelings about her recent relocation to New York from her longtime home in Chicago and the emotional rigors of navigating the path of an itinerant musician within the City’s bustling jazz scene. There is also a more physiological aspect, as Davis has actively researched the life giving organ and its properties in dealing with her father’s own heart ailment. All of these forces come to bear on her new recording, “Heart Tonic”.

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Caroline Davis – Alula (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:15 minutes | 475 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New Amsterdam

Alula is the new album from Brooklyn-based composer and performer Caroline Davis. The record is available exclusively through New Amsterdams Bandcamp subscription as part of the Windmill Series, a new digitally-focused set of releases for subscribers in addition to our existing release schedule. The album will be released on all other platforms in February 2019. Formed in Brooklyn in 2016, Alula was born out of several duo performances between Caroline Davis and Gregory Saunier. Internal monologues resulted in the addition of pianist/keyboardist Matt Mitchell, who Davis has worked with in other contexts. Alulas debut album features original pieces by Davis, whole-heartedly motivated by the study of an anterior digit on a birds wing. The alula wing functions as a locomotive during flight and landing, and has specific rhythmic functions, which is of central concern on this self-titled album. Alula features Caroline Davis on alto saxophone and voice; Gregory Saunier (Deerhoof) on drums, percussion and voice; and Matt Mitchell on Prophet 6 Synthesizer, Modular Synthesizer, and ARP Synthesizer.

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