Alexi Tuomarila Trio: Seven Hills

Modern Jazz / Pianistyka Jazzowa
premiera polska: 2014-02-24,
Wydawnicto Audiofilskie
kontynent: Europa
kraj: Finlandia
opakowanie: plastikowe etui
opis:
multikulti.com:
Pianista Alexi Tuomarila w Polsce znany jest głównie dzięki płycie Tomasza Stańko "Dark Eyes". Nordycki Kwintet pod przewodnictwem polskiego trębacza w składzie - Alexi Tuomarila na fortepianie, Jakob Bro na gitarze, Anders Christensen na kontrabasie i za perkusją Olavi Louhivuori snuł opowieści pełne chłodu i wyrafinowania. Komplementowano na świecie i w Polsce grę każdego z członków tego zespołu, warto sięgnąć do autorskich projektów poszczególnych muzyków.

Tym razem Alexi Tuomarila prezentuje klasyczne jazzowe trio w składzie Alexi Tuomarila za fortepianem, Mats Eilertsen na kontrabasie i Olavi Louhivuori za perkusją. Muzycy tria znają się z wielu składów, w trio dali wiele koncertów, doskonale się rozumieją, wiedzą, jak połączyć nowoczesne brzmienie z charakterystycznym chłodnym pulsem skandynawskiego jazzu. Powstają w ten sposób swoiste opowieści nasycone soczystymi emocjami, z niespiesznych fraz, co rusz przebija się pojedynczy dźwięk poszczególnych muzyków. Całość pomimo mroku i melancholii jednak daje promyk nadziei, jakieś nieziemskie światło. Trójka muzyków prezentuje podobny rodzaj wrażliwości, zbliżoną mentalność przekładająca się na ekspresję, to jeden z atutów płyty.

Amerykański Jazz Times napisał "Alexi Tuomarila is one of the next big deals on jazz piano", trudno nie zgodzić się z tą opinią.
autor: Mateusz Matyjak

Editor's info:
Alexi Tuomarila left Finland as a teenager to train at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. He graduated in 1999 and began a career in Belgium, winning a series of price group or soloist in 2001 Hoeilaart, Springboard Avignon and that of Monaco. He soon signed on Warner-Finland for three albums and recorded at Studio La Buissonne with Belgian bassist and drummer. We then find the head of a quartet including saxophonist Nicolas Kummert for his album “02”. Knighted by Brad Mehldau, who signed his liner notes, he has little to do with the aesthetics of the famous trio EST Rather, it is the side of the universe hanging in the Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko that we should find a strong influence. Moreover it is in this quartet (see “Dark Eyes” by ECM) that has long collaborated with his current drummer Olavi fellow Louvihuori. Norwegian bassist Mats Eilertsen joined them in 2006 for the album “Constellation” trio.

With Seven Hills (recorded in Lisbon – the city of Seven Hills) the music, the compositions, the playing and communication are even better. It’s more controlled, bound together with a greater and more developed precision and vision. This music is highly creative and bustling with life and is sure to ignite a lot of interest over the coming months. Seven Hills is an album that will turn heads and help return Alexi to where he left off at the height of his career with Warner Music. It marks a new chapter in Tuomarila’s illustrious career and with a greater maturity to his playing, composition and approach to music making (as well as a firm home at Edition Records) he is set to take a giant step forward in his career.


All About Jazz:
While not entirely rare, it is relatively uncommon to find relationships forged so strongly that the musicians find themselves working together in multiple contexts, where the names remain the same, only the leader changes. Finnish pianist Alexi Tuomarila and drummer Olavi Louhivuori have been working together in a variety of contexts for the past several years, most notably with Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko's quintet responsible for Dark Eyes (ECM, 2010), but together with Mats Eilertsen, they've not only worked together as the trio responsible for the pianist's Constellations (Jazzaway, 2006), they've also been at the core of the Norwegian bassist's SkyDive quintet, heard on its self-titled 2012 Hubro debut.
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These days, when the words "European" and "piano trio" are put together in a sentence, comparisons are made, all too often, to that now defunct superstar of European piano trios, Esbjorn Svensson Trio (e.s.t.), whose career was cut short by the untimely death of its pianist in 2008. More often than not it's a lazy, superficial association so let's get one thing out of the way right now: Alexi Tuomarila Trio is not the next e.s.t., nor does it need to be. Tuomarila's early quartet records, from just after the turn of the millennium, were good enough to capture the ear of American pianist Brad Mehldau, and for good reason: unlike young pianists for whom Mehldau is an obvious touchstone, the distinctive Tuomarila's references are far more subsumed.
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Tuomarila, Eilertsen and Louhivuori represent a different kind of piano trio to e.s.t.-aspirants—one that, based on the commanding, challenging and accessible Seven Hills, values real improvisational acumen reliant on motif-based, in-the-moment development rather than catchphrase predictability and access-driven familiarity.

muzycy:
Alexi Tuomarila: piano
Mats Eilertsen: double bass
Olavi Louhivuori: drums

utwory:
1. Seven Hills 5.11
2. Cyan 6.21
3. Prologue 7.55
4. Jibeinia 4.34
5. Skuld 5.40
6. Pearl 6.34
7. Visitor Q 4.01
8. Miss 3.51
9. Ceremony 8.06

total time - 52:30
more info: www.editionrecords.com
more info2: alexituomarila.com