Ellen Arkbro - Nightclouds - VINYL LP

Grammy-winner tim O'Brien teams up with his sister Mollie, her husband Rich Moore on guitar, daughters Brigid and Lucy Moore on vocals and piano, and Tim's sons Jack and Joel on vocals, bass, and percussion. Roger Miller's songs, part of the fabric of pop radio in the mid 1960s, were fresh then and they are fresh now. Roger Miller was country, pop, jazz, and comedy, and he was an amazing singer. This recording features a few of his hits and some of his lesser-known songs, sung and played by two generations of O'Briens. As Tim writes in the liner notes, InchRoger's music fits US like a glove.Inch

60 years have passed since the of a recording that would change Swedish jazz forever. Bill Evans, with his incredible touch and mastery of harmony has made an undeniable imprint on jazz musicians all over the world - and through his collaboration with Monica Zetterlund on InchWaltz for DebbyInch in 1964, a new era for Scandinavian music was born.Impressions of Evans is an effort to pay tribute to this - a gesture of gratitude for making pine trees and 5th Avenue come together in a remarkably seamless, beautiful way and for being the perfect example of how one plus one sometimes equals three.

Sounds While Waiting documents the latest organ works by composer and musician Ellen Arkbro - following her phenomenal debut, 2017's For Organ And Brass, and the more recent CHORDS for organ. Recorded at a centuries-old church in Unnaryd, Sweden in June 2020, these pieces reveal the enchanting qualities of sustained harmonic sound, how patterns of listening dissolve and emerge as textured space. On opening track InchChanges,Inch long radiant tones ebb and flow like divine breaths, while InchLeaving DreamingInch builds with dynamic tension to unlock a subtle, otherworldly ambience. As the composer states in the sleeve notes, InchThese recordings are traces of something I have come to love to do in large resonant spaces, which is to set up sustained chords on multiple organs and then move slowly through the sound. The instruments are usually far apart, which makes for the emergence of large fields of continuous change, spaces of harmonicity that can be passed through layer by layer and which contain within them points of both clarity and overwhelming complexity. The organ pipes are tuned and retuned, though sometimes I leave them just as they are. What I'm searching for is the moment when a particular kind of sounding texturality is revealed - it is rough, focused and yet strangely transparent.InchArkbro composes for acoustic instruments, for synthetic sound and for combinations of both, including music for orchestra and smaller chamber ensembles and large scale installation works. She currently performs in Catherine Christer Hennix's Kamigaku ensemble and has previously studied with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela in New York. Recommended for fans of Sarah Davachi, Eliane Radigue and Charlemagne Palestine.