Aruan Ortiz With Andrew Cyrille, Mauricio Herrera
Release Date: 27 March 2020
Label: Intakt
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7640120193393
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
Aruan Ortiz has long dreamt of making an album that would evoke "a cascade of rhythms going over me, almost dragging me to fall." This feeling of being overtaken by rhythm is one he knows well, having spent his first 23 years in Cuba. Born in 1973, Ortiz grew up Santiago de Cuba - the cradle of Afro-Cuban music and a veritable "vortex of rhythm". Ortiz captures the symphony of everyday life in Oriente on his arresting new album, Inside Rhythmic Falls.
"I think of myself as a storyteller," Ortiz says, "and each of the album's ten tracks tells a story about Oriente province." For this project Ortiz has chosen Cuban percussionist Mauricio Herrera and one of the best drummers of today's jazz to his side. Andrew Cyrille was born in Brooklyn, New York into a Haitian family. "Rhythm is life - the space of time danced through," and inside rhythmic falls everyone is possessed by the dance, both leading and following. The New York jazz critic Adam Schatz writes in the Liner notes: "When music is this glorious, it has the power not just to conjure spirits but to inspire belief and help us experience the marvelous. Or, as Carpentier also put it, the marvelous real."
Tracklisting
Yves Theiler Trio
Yuko Fujiyama - Graham Haynes - Ikue Mori
Weber/Frith/Studer
Vwcr: Vandermark-Wooley-Courvo
Ulrich Quartett Gumpert
Trio Heinz Herbert
Trio 3 & Jason Moran
Trio 3 & Geri Allen
Daniel Herskedal
Yuko Fujiyama - Graham Haynes - Ikue Mori
Xavi Reija
Wingfield Reuter Sirkis
Waldeck Sextet
Waldeck
Waldeck
Waldeck
