Bill Evans - The East End - VINYL LP

XO Skeleton is the supple, steady, uncanny new album by La Force a mixture of haunted pop and hot-blooded R&B that glistens at the meeting-point between life, death and love. InchIn dreams, the dead and living are the same,Inch Ariel Engle sings on InchOctober,Inch her voice shimmering. InchMaybe that's why I'm better in the dark.Inch The finality of death? The protection that another person's love can or cannot bestow? These are body questions, matters of breath and flesh and pulse, which is the stuff at the centre of all of La Force's music-beginning on her 2018 debut and also outward, into Engle's electrifying work with Broken Social Scene, Big Red Machine, Efrim Menuck, Safia Nolin, and AroarA, her duo with her husband, Andrew Whiteman. La Force's voice is stunning-somehow luscious and also wise-but so is her point of view-steady, sensitive, physical. Engle made the album at home, in the house where she grew up, where she got married, where her father died-a place that's Inchboth completely dead and completely alive,Inch she says a structure at the threshold of her inner and outer worlds. Off and on for two whole years, Engle's old friend, co-producer Warren Spicer (Plants and Animals), would work in her basement until lunch, allowing songs to unfold at heartbeat pace. She's been Inchunhealthily obsessedInch with death, she says, since she was a child, and XO Skeleton is a kind of reckoning a coming-to-terms with the oblivion that bookends a life, but also the Inchgooey centreInch of love, loss, touch, and memory. Throughout, XO Skeleton is electric + vivid, and also tactile + grimy. It bends and turns with it's every shift of pulse-35 mournful minutes; but also searching, turned on. Like a body, you might say. Or the memory of one.1. condition of us2. how do you love a man3. october4. empty sympathy5. rock song6. xo skeleton7. ouroboros8. zipolite9. outrun the

The LP is remarkable in that only Evans's own compositions were recorded - three previously recorded pieces and four brand-new works. Of particular note is the melancholy InchTwo Lonely PeopleInch, Evans's musical interpretation of a poem by Carol Hall. InchSugar PlumInch and InchT.T.T.Inch were to remain in his repertoire right up until his very last recordings. Unusual but very commendable because it begins with an ad hoc introductory improvisation is the electric piano version of Evans's most well-known composition - InchWaltz For DebbyInch.The excellent technical facilities at the Columbia Studio were used to the full by Bill Evans, even though they were only recording a small ensemble. And that is why the seven numbers sound far better than most of the trio's live recordings. And as Bill Evans once said, it was with this trio that he could fulfill his musical ambitions.

To celebrate the 45th anniversary of iconic Dutch jazz tag Timeless Records, Music On Vinyl is releasing a series that features albums that are part of the Timeless Records legacy and will be released mainly throughout 2022. To this day, jazz pianists are influenced by Bill Evans by his use of impressionist harmony, interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and his trademark rhythmically independent, 'singing' melodic lines. Evans gained his first spotlight when joining Miles Davis' sextet during the time Kind of Blue was recorded. After leaving the sextet, Evans began his career as bandleader. As trio with Marc Johnson on bass and Joe LaBarbera on drums, they recorded The Brilliant in 1980, just before Evans' passing. Official website www. Timelessjazz. comLISTEN //youtu. #be/gDjv3V_J85w* 180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE VINYL * SLEEVE PRINTED ON HEAVY CARDBOARD CARTON WITH LINEN LAMINATE FINISH* CLASSIC JAZZ ALBUM RECORDED LIVE AT JAZZ CLUB KEYSTONE CORNER, SAN FRANCISCO, USA* INCLUDES INSERT WITH UPCOMING TIMELESS JAZZ TITLES* BLACK VINYLTracklisting SIDE A1. Laurie2. Letter To Evan3. Mornin' Glory4. Theme From M. A. S. H. SIDE B1. Up With The Lark2. Gary's Theme3. Bill's Hit Tune4. Knit For Mary F