- 2LP
- Recommended =
- New Release
Ulla & Perila
Jazz Plates
Paralaxe Editions
- Cat No: PXE19
- 2024-10-02
スペインの〈Paralaxe Editions〉から、アンビエント、エレクトロニック、ジャズ・ライン注目を集めてきたULLAとPerila、〈Experimental LTD〉からのLOG名義でも、コラボレーションしてきた二人によるアルバム「Jazz Plates」がアナログリリースされました。呼吸の気配や、物音、ノイズまで美しく昇華していくような優しい音楽。
Track List
After many years drifting in and out of each-other’s orbit, ‘Jazz Plates’ finds Ulla and Perila making music in the same room for the first time, exhaling a double album’s worth of gorgeously evocative mood music, gently crackling with a dream-textured haze for the ages. It's remarkably intimate material, linking the duo's own hypnagogic portrait of jazz, in all its hushed permutations.
‘Jazz Plates’ catches the mutual spirits measuredly channelling their shared love of Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, making use of voice, clarinet, guitar, piano, vocals and various non-musical objets - logs, leaves, an aquarium - until they hit their emotional core. Previously separated by an ocean, their first recording sessions in person find an intoxicating play of slow and atmospheric sounds porous to the shifting weather outside, with one plate subtly guided by the sun, and another by heavy rain. Unhurried, etheric, and wistful, the album’s 13 parts wash over the senses with a soothingly meditative resonance that emerges from their “mutual dialogue of our instruments and souls”, as Perila puts it.
Distant voices swirl around the duo's dampened instrumentation on opener 'lasting like a grass leaf', as themes duck and dive over plangent ambience. It isn't a capital A Ambient record, by any means, but Perila and Ulla's approach is impressionistic rather than figurative. They form ghostly half-songs around hollow trace rhythms on 'a josh outside the window', coating the breathy romance of modern jazz in a layer of dust, and let the clarinet do most of the work on 'placing in shell parcels' as it slow dances around a reverberant vocal.
More than anything, ‘Jazz Plates’ seems to highlight the sensuality of collaboration; you can almost hear the duo trading glances and allowing the mood to dictate the momentum. When they switch things up on the second disc, they pull their ideas more tightly together without losing any of the intimacy. Muffled electric guitar prangs punctuate woody rhythms on 'messages from a floor', as if the two are trying to rethink the logic of free jazz, and on the heart piercing 'cheese homework', blues-y guitar phrases are sunk under a powerful, loping bassline.
A gentle, beautiful thing, highly recommended if yr into anything from Loren Connors to Laila Sakini.
‘Jazz Plates’ catches the mutual spirits measuredly channelling their shared love of Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, making use of voice, clarinet, guitar, piano, vocals and various non-musical objets - logs, leaves, an aquarium - until they hit their emotional core. Previously separated by an ocean, their first recording sessions in person find an intoxicating play of slow and atmospheric sounds porous to the shifting weather outside, with one plate subtly guided by the sun, and another by heavy rain. Unhurried, etheric, and wistful, the album’s 13 parts wash over the senses with a soothingly meditative resonance that emerges from their “mutual dialogue of our instruments and souls”, as Perila puts it.
Distant voices swirl around the duo's dampened instrumentation on opener 'lasting like a grass leaf', as themes duck and dive over plangent ambience. It isn't a capital A Ambient record, by any means, but Perila and Ulla's approach is impressionistic rather than figurative. They form ghostly half-songs around hollow trace rhythms on 'a josh outside the window', coating the breathy romance of modern jazz in a layer of dust, and let the clarinet do most of the work on 'placing in shell parcels' as it slow dances around a reverberant vocal.
More than anything, ‘Jazz Plates’ seems to highlight the sensuality of collaboration; you can almost hear the duo trading glances and allowing the mood to dictate the momentum. When they switch things up on the second disc, they pull their ideas more tightly together without losing any of the intimacy. Muffled electric guitar prangs punctuate woody rhythms on 'messages from a floor', as if the two are trying to rethink the logic of free jazz, and on the heart piercing 'cheese homework', blues-y guitar phrases are sunk under a powerful, loping bassline.
A gentle, beautiful thing, highly recommended if yr into anything from Loren Connors to Laila Sakini.
幾度も追加プレスされベストセラーとなったExperiences Ltd.からの「Tumbling Towards A Wall」以降アンビエント・ラインの人気アーチストとなったULLAと、Smalltown Supersound、Shelter Press、The Trilogy TapesからはミックステープもリリースしてきたPerilaのニューコラボレーション。
『アリス・コルトレーンとファラオ・サンダースへの共通の愛を、声、クラリネット、ギター、ピアノ、ヴォーカル、そして様々な非音楽的オブジェ（丸太、木の葉、水槽）を駆使して、感情の核心に達するまで、互いのスピリットを慎重に表現。』ヴォイスドローンとは、また違ったサブリミナルな声の使い方、唱法で深みを探る様も印象的。意識を落とすと、ディープに繰り広げられている音の世界。AMBIENT JAZZ、NEWAGE的なスピリチュアルな側面も持つ美しいサウンド。 (サイトウ)