(or, the internet hermitage of tyler w. weaver)
From the saxophonist of yesterday's EarBliss, a haunting collection of free jazz compositions that immediately conjured the films of Carl Th. Dreyer, F.W. Murnau, and silent Fritz Lang – but compositions that, each and all, both stand on their own and flow from one evocative soundscape to the next. Superb.
Saxophone (+ glockenspiel) in a parking garage should not be this stunning but I can’t stop obsessing over the magic Shiroishi creates here. Makes me think of what Sonny Rollins's days of woodshedding on the Williamsburg Bridge must have sounded like:
A classic as new and vital as the day it landed. Essential.
By turns rollicking and elegiac, often within the same composition. Purchased both this and the upcoming WOODEN MUSIC II on vinyl. So good.
