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Oded Tzur - Isabela (2022) [Hi-Res]

Oded Tzur - Isabela (2022) [Hi-Res]

BAND/ARTIST: Oded Tzur

  • Title: Isabela
  • Year Of Release: 2022
  • Label: ECM
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-96kHz FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 35:20
  • Total Size: 83 / 180 / 663 MB
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Tracklist:

1. Invocation (1:53)
2. Noam (6:37)
3. The Lion Turtle (8:35)
4. Isabela (10:50)
5. Love Song for the Rainy Season (7:27)

On his second release for ECM New York-based saxophonist Oded Tzur introduces a heightened sense of urgency and a conceptually augmented approach to his distinctive voice, weaving one underlying musical idea through a series of elaborate and impassioned designs.

The quartet's lineup is unchanged from 2020's Here Be Dragons and the group's interplay has grown even more expressive in the meantime. Throughout Isabela the saxophonist and his collaborators - pianist Nitai Hershkovits, Petros Klampanis on bass and rhythm conjurer Johnathan Blake - apply their subtle dialect in a more intense space, exploring the nuances and colors of Oded's self-fashioned raga in a suite-like sequence of quiet meditations and powerful exclamations.

The remarkable session was captured in Lugano's Auditorio Stelio Molo in September 2021 and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Oded Tzur: tenor saxophone
Nitai Hershkovits: piano
Petros Klampanis: double bass
Johnathan Blake: drums.




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Oded Tzur: Isabela (ECM 2739)

Tyran Grillo
Jun 30

Oded Tzur
Isabela

Oded Tzur tenor saxophone
Nitai Hershkotivs piano
Petros Klampanis double bass
Johnathan Blake drums
Recorded September 2021
Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano
Engineer: Stefano Amerio
Cover photo: Sebastião Salgado
Produced by Manfred Eicher
Release date: May 13, 2022

Saxophonist and composer Oded Tzur resurfaces in ECM waters for his follow-up to 2020’s Here Be Dragons, a maiden voyage that, like this spiritual twin, was a musical parable. Rejoined by pianist Nitai Hershkovits, bassist Petros Klampanis, and drummer Jonathan Blake, he examines the fluidity of structural principles and the materials involved in their making.

From the threads of “Invocation,” the quartet sews the binding of its thematic pages in “Noam,” which speaks through melodies that roll off the soul’s tongue. In “The Lion Turtle,” Blake taps the edges of his kit like someone testing the shell of an egg for vulnerabilities (and finding none). Klampanis’s solo feels like an extension of Hershkovits’s (and vice versa). Suggestions of alternate realities fade as quickly as they appear. Tzur’s unraveling is profundity incarnate, gracing the inner circle of every chord change as the tongue might move a morsel around the mouth for proper chewing. The result is more than a conversation; it’s an interactive prayer.

The title track awakens suddenly yet quietly. Love is the universal whisper here, as supple as skin. A near-stillness shifts midway into a locomotive dream before allowing the dawn to have its way. “Love Song For The Rainy Season” whips up the most energetic passages of the album, ending it on a cymbal crash that dissipates in breath.

At 36 minutes, Isabela is quintessentially about quality over quantity. The depth of interpretation promised by repeat listening far outweighs the expectation that a mere profession of duration may court from the skeptical heart. Tzur plays as if shielding his eyes from the sun, seeing in the distance a vessel he might have known as a child yet which is now haggard and without a sail, going only where the water and waves will permit it. He swings and whispers, meditates and shouts, holding each dichotomy as a eulogy.
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