Gordon Grdina’s The Marrow – Safar-e-daroon (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 52:51 minutes | 971 MB | Genre: World
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Here is the second release by The Marrow, Grdina’s Vancouver/New York project adapting Arabic and Persian forms to a jazz approach and ethos. For Grdina there is nothing exotic in this endeavor – he’s been playing oud since he was a teenager and first recorded with it on his Songlines debut, Think Like the Waves (2006); his Arabic/jazz 10-piece, Haram, debuted in 2008 and released Her Eyes Illuminate in 2012. Haram is at heart an extravert Vancouver party band filled with avant-jazz improvisers playing the heck out of old-time Arabic pop and folk tunes; The Marrow explores a deeper level of expressive fusion between worlds by means of original compositions (some more or less rooted in tradition, others more fluid in the influences they stir together and the emotions they evoke) and performers whose intuitive grasp of the material and group dynamics is very finely honed.
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Gordon Grdina’s The Marrow – Ejdeha (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:27 minutes | 712 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Virtuoso Vancouver oud player Gordon Grdina’s new middle eastern/avant jazz ensemble is a quartet featuring illustrious New York collaborators Mark Helias (bass) Hank Roberts (cello) and Hamin Honari on Persian percussion.
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