playground4 - Hit the Ground Running (2020)
Artist: playground4
Title: Hit the Ground Running
Year Of Release: 2020
Label: JazzHausMusik
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 63:27 min
Total Size: 368 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Hit the Ground Running
Year Of Release: 2020
Label: JazzHausMusik
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 63:27 min
Total Size: 368 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
01. Lily of the Nile
02. Mäander
03. Gm’s Musicbox
04. Earwalk
05. Hit the Ground Running
06. Schmetterling
07. Dedication to Nguyên Lê & Esbjörn Svensson
08. Ouverture
09. Laubbläser versus Laubsauger
10. From Shenandoah
"The art of listening to each other" - that is the motto of the prolific collaboration of four musicians from three German-speaking countries that have met at a musical blind date.
Those four musicians - composers and conductors altogether - met by chance as lecturers at the "Hessische Frauenmusikwoche". And this first gathering of playground4 was and has been an absolute stroke of luck. They combine their voices to a musical unity between modern jazz, surprisingly rich varied timbres, the courage to complex experiments also outside the jazz idiom and a wily percussive orchestration. Unexpected flute effects including beat boxing, simultaneous singing and playing, electronic effects, piano preparations, string sounds and groove percussion on double bass: all these parts remain perceptible but emotionally they move a lot more as a whole. They not only fit together, they wonderfully merge.
Those four musicians - composers and conductors altogether - met by chance as lecturers at the "Hessische Frauenmusikwoche". And this first gathering of playground4 was and has been an absolute stroke of luck. They combine their voices to a musical unity between modern jazz, surprisingly rich varied timbres, the courage to complex experiments also outside the jazz idiom and a wily percussive orchestration. Unexpected flute effects including beat boxing, simultaneous singing and playing, electronic effects, piano preparations, string sounds and groove percussion on double bass: all these parts remain perceptible but emotionally they move a lot more as a whole. They not only fit together, they wonderfully merge.