Kris Davis – Diatom Ribbons (Live At The Village Vanguard) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:44:51 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Recorded at the Village Vanguard on May 27 and 28th, 2022.
All compositions by Kris Davis except “Alice in the Congo” by Ronald Shannon Jackson, “The Dancer” by Geri Allen, and “Dolores” by Wayne Shorter. All arrangements by Kris Davis.
“Nine Hats” references “Hat and Beard” by Eric Dolphy and “Study No.9 for Player Piano” by Conlon Nancarrow.
“VW” features a 1991 interview with Sun Ra by Jay Green on KPFA’s “Straight No Chaser.”
“Bird Call Blues” includes the voices of Olivier Messiaen and Paul Bley and is influenced by Messiaen’s “Petites Esquisses D’Oiseaux.”
“Parasitic Hunter” includes the voice of Karlheinz Stockhausen speaking about ‘Intuitive Music’ in a 1972 lecture.
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Kris Davis – Diatom Ribbons (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:00 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Jazz
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When I compose, I’m alternating between the micro and macro, shaping the details and then standing back to see how they make up the structure of the composition. While writing for this album I learned about diatoms, which are unicellular microalgae that live in the oceans and freshwater and soils. They contribute massively to the planet’s oxygen supply, and there are something like one hundred thousand species. From satellite images above oceans and lakes, huge blooms sometimes appear as beautiful zigzags and ribbons. Up close under a scanning electron microscope, you can see these incredible, ornate structures. So seeing these plants extremely close-up and then so far away, I made a connection between the process of composition and my experience of nature, and that changing your proximity to the same object or idea can dramatically alter your experience of it, often yielding unexpected and inspiring results.
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Ingrid Laubrock & Kris Davis – Blood Moon (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:43 minutes | 879 MB | Genre: Jazz
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More than a decade ago, saxophonist-composer Ingrid Laubrock met pianist-composer Kris Davis at the recently shuttered historic hang Cornelia Street Cafe in downtown Manhattan, before Laubrock had moved to New York.
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