Chris Gestrin - After The City Has Gone : Quiet (2007) [SACD]

“For beautiful sounds beautifully recorded, this series of pensive meditations excels.” — Alexander Varty, The Georgia Straight

“Gestrin’s ability to listen (and play!) is on full display…What’s quite amazing is that a very wide range of styles and textures are presented, and yet it all hangs together in a fairly natural way. Is this jazz? A kind of world music? You’ll have to decide for yourself…It’s inspiring to see an idea lofted into the air, only to be changed up in real time and taken in completely different directions. It strikes me that After The City Has Gone: Quiet might be one of those key recordings that’ll turn someone on to the idea of improvised music.” — Mark Saleski, Blogcritics.org

Tracks:

Disc 1:
1. Metres per Second
2. To Sink in Posture
3. Living Candles
4. Viewpoint 1
5. Prelude in D
6. Turnstile
7. Many Skies
8. Beauty Walks in this World
9. Bees
10. The Seeds of my Departure
11. Viewpoint 2
12. As Pointless as the Weather
13. D.S.
14. With such Unsettled Heart
15. The Loves of the Angels

Disc 2:
1. Write by Return to your Longing
2. The Melody that is
3. Guilty Gates
4. #47
5. Moonshine Run
6. Command and Promise
7. On the Back of a Tiger
8. The Lasting Taste of Spring
9. Storied Walls
10. Silence of Faded Emblem
11. The Evening’s Influence
12. The Phonometrographs and the Turing Machine
13. Meet me at Uji Bridge

Personnel:

Chris Gestrin (piano, prepared piano, percussion)
Joseph Pepe Danza (shakuhachi, percussion, hang, ney)
Ron Samworth (guitar)
Miles Black (piano)
Peggy Lee (cello)
Jon Bentley (saxophones)
Bernie Arai (drums)
Gordon Grdina (guitar, dobro)
Bill Clark, JP Carter (trumpet)
Jeremy Berkman (trombone)
Jesse Zubot (violin)
Dylan van der Schyff (drums)