- LP
- Digital
Andrew Wasylyk
Paralell Light
Athens Of The North
- Cat No: AOTNLP062
- Release: 2023-01-27
スコットランド作曲家プロデューサー/マルチインストゥルメンタル奏者Andrew WasylykによるAthens Of The Northからの3作目となるニューアルバム「Parallel Light」LPが届けられた。スピリチュアルジャズ室内楽とでも呼ぶべき、味わい深いシネマティック・メランコリックな美しさ、スコットランド・トラディショナル・フォーキーなモダンクラシカル・アンビエントジャズ名作。今作も素晴らしい。
Track List
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1. Andrew Wasylyk - A Further Look at Loss (Alternate Mix)
03:17 -
2. Andrew Wasylyk - Last Sunbeans of Childhood (Alternate Mix)
02:53 -
3. Andrew Wasylyk - Fugitive Light Restless Water
03:13 -
4. Andrew Wasylyk - The Violet Hour (Alternate Mix)
02:38 -
5. Andrew Wasylyk - Everywhere Something Sublime (Alternate Mix)
01:14 -
6. Andrew Wasylyk - In Balgay Silhouettes (Alternate Mix)
03:43 -
7. Andrew Wasylyk - Awoke in the Early Days of a Better World (Alternate Mix)
03:02 -
8. Andrew Wasylyk - (Half Light Of) the Cadmium Moon
03:05 -
9. Andrew Wasylyk - Black Bay Dream Minor (Alternate Mix)
04:09 -
10. Andrew Wasylyk - Lost, Aglow
01:21
16bit/44.1khz [wav/flac/aiff/alac/mp3]
With ’Parallel Light’, AndrewWasylyk offers an alternative mix album to 2020’s spiritual-jazz and neo-classical masterclass in melody, ‘Fugitive Light And Themes Of Consolation’. This new LP, his third with Athens Of North Records, is as much a different perspective as a companion piece.
The ten songs still circle landscapes for meaning, channelling half-heard melodies and misremembered memories; caught somewhere between settling down and setting out towards the shining levels of the estuary and beyond. Each magnifying the bold, expansive arrangements of FL&TOC with layers are lifted and peeled away.
The soft-focus glow of gently pressed piano keys, the well and wash of strings and brass remain, but the deduction of instrumentation serves to highlight the ornate and offers comfort with this new found space. In the warmth reshaped, a romanticism illuminated.
At the essence of these reframed compositions Wasylyk’s blue and gold, mellifluous refrains prevail. It’s a seamless, sublime flow from a restless artists and an album quietly reawakened.
The ten songs still circle landscapes for meaning, channelling half-heard melodies and misremembered memories; caught somewhere between settling down and setting out towards the shining levels of the estuary and beyond. Each magnifying the bold, expansive arrangements of FL&TOC with layers are lifted and peeled away.
The soft-focus glow of gently pressed piano keys, the well and wash of strings and brass remain, but the deduction of instrumentation serves to highlight the ornate and offers comfort with this new found space. In the warmth reshaped, a romanticism illuminated.
At the essence of these reframed compositions Wasylyk’s blue and gold, mellifluous refrains prevail. It’s a seamless, sublime flow from a restless artists and an album quietly reawakened.
今作は、スコットランド最長の河川テイ川の河口に沿って流れる水や光、精神やロマンまでを音風景として捉えた2020年リリースの前作「Fugitive Light and Themes of Consolation」をセルフ・ミックスして再構築したアルバムとなっており、ピアノ、キーボード、ギター、ハーモニカ、ヴィブラフォン、パーカッション、フィールドレコーディングをシームス静謐にアンサンブル、トランペット、トロンボーン、サックス、クラリネット、イングリッシュホルンのブラス隊、ヴァイオリン、ヴィオラ、チェロ、アイリッシュハープ、ミュージックソーのストリングス弦楽器を絶妙に配置アレンジした、スピリチュアル・メロウ、メディテーショナル・エレガント・ロマンチックな崇高なる世界観のポストクラシカル・ジャズ見事な音楽世界をゆっくりじっくり味わい深く再構築して作り上げている。 (コンピューマ) (LPのコメントから参照)