Emil De Waal: Emil De Waal +

Nu-Jazz/Acid jazz/Lounge Jazz
premiera polska: 2005-10-17
opakowanie: plastikowe etui
opis:
All About Jazz
'...Emil de Waal + is another release from the "what is jazz"/is it jazz" category that has come my way recently, along with Mandarin Movie, Patina, and Dada Ear Ink. The common characteristics connecting them are the appearance of nonmusical sounds (electronica, including processed voice) and use of standard musical instruments in nonstandard ways. This release also adds rhythms that feel more like techno dance than anything else.
De Waal wanted to inhabit that space where jazz borders on modern dance music and use electronics as an instrument to be played from a previous recording (as a "backing") or in the foreground, with the instrumentalists being the "backing." As with most jazz discs, what is heard is a snapshot of music in progress that can and will change with each iteration. As a drummer, de Waal has recorded a lot in Denmark and elsewhere, and he has composed and arranged for many different people.
The music itself has a flow and direction. The instruments that sound "normal" have jazz characteristics, and there is a clear feel of improvisation when they appear. It is harder to tell when the electronica is improvised. "Ypkendanz Part 2" is quite beautiful, with free piano arpeggios leading to electronic keyboard sounds. It runs directly into "Ypkendanz Part 1," which ends with the germ of the sounds taken up by the former track. The bulk of the piece uses a simple melody spoke-sung and manipulated..." [Budd Kopman]
Editor's Info
Has appeared on about 150 releases since 1986 and has toured nationally and internationally as one of the most heavily engaged drummers in Danish rhythmic music. Covers a wide variety of styles, playing the drums and percussion as well as band-leading, programming, composing and arranging for artists such as the Blue Note recording jazz vocalist Cacilie Norby, quadruple Grammy Award laureate vocalist Randi Laubek, Grammy Award laureate saxophonist Fredrik Lundin, Moroccan Gnawa artist Moustapha Baqbou, South African vocalist Ray Phiri, David Williams (guitarist with Michael Jackson, Madonna, Bryan Ferry) and Andrew Strong (the Commitments). Since 1995 both leader and a member of various bands appearing in Danish TV shows and a diverse range of "house bands" backing artists of international recognition such as: Robert Palmer, Kele Le Roc, Jocelyn Brown, Honeyz, Lisa Nilsson, Eric Gadd, Jessica, Jamie Walters, Roy Rogers (John Lee Hooker producer and guitarist), Freddie Washington (bassist with Herbie Hancock, Michael Jackson...) and Jon Cleary. After two releases co-leading the "Danish Jazz Grammy"- nominated "Band Mrazem" , leading a theatre show-band and a tv-show house band, Emil has gone solo with his CD: Emil de Waal Plus
The CD presents the Swedish multi-musician Gustaf Ljunggren who plays almost all instruments together with Soren Kjargaard on key instruments. Emil himself appears on drums, guitar, vocal and laptop.

Freeform development work:
The CD includes nine recordings composed and produced by Emil. The CD is the result of an artistic development work that Emil has carried out in connection with his job as associate professor at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, Denmark - and is based on a barrier-breaking cooperation across the Atlantic Ocean, see beneath.

Change of roles - more freedom to the backing.
The idea behind the project is to use the computer as an extra member of the band in a new way. The same soloistic improvisation can be played by the computer every time, while the backing relates to the solo in a more improvising manner. The electronic parts can form both the bottom and the top of the music.
In this way, the band can relate itself freely to stylistic limits. In principle, they can play "free" one day and strict dance music the next day. New compositions can be developed from the same pre-recorded solos and improvisations on the computer.

Cooperation Holmen-New York.
After having finished the preliminary recordings in the RMC studios, Emil packed his bags and went to New York in March 2004 to present his material to a number of musicians and soloists: Marina Rosenfeld, art/noise-dj, known from her cooperation with DJ Olive and as a solo-performance artist, Erik Sanko, multi-instrumentalist, who has worked with Skeleton Key, Lounge Lizards, Yoko Ono, John Cale and many others, Andy Green, the technician and guitarist, who has worked with John Cale, Velvet Underground, among others.

All the musicians mentioned above use very exciting methods to explore the sound possibilities of instruments and hard disc recording programmes. In New York, they worked with Emil's recorded material and added solos and backing to the preliminary recordings. New music was created from Emil's earlier recorded compositions.

Safely returned to Denmark in June, Emil and his trio continued to work with the material from New York and created new backing and new music. Fredrik Lundin added an extra dimension to the result with his excellent performance on tenor saxophone and bass flute.

Andy Green came to Denmark in August 2004 and finished the production of Emil's CD in the RMC recording studio.

muzycy:
Emil de Waal: drums, vocals, guitar, laptop, Gustaf Ljunggren: many instruments, Soren Kjargaard: keyboards. Plus Erik Sanko: multi-instrumentalist, Marina Rosenfeld: art/noise-DJ), and Frederik Lundin (tenor sax and bass flute).

utwory:
1. Ypkendatz part 2
2. Ypkendatz part 1
3. Struktur
4. Bang
5. Johnstein
6. Tschak
7. Sirlion
8. Katter
9. Luth o

wydano: 2005-06
nagrano: 2005
more info: www.sundance.dk
more info2: www.rmc.dk, www.emildewaal.com