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Power Vibe

Steph Richards

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Cat No: LPNS164

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Release Date:  03 May 2024

Label:  Northern Spy

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  0309272739459

Genres:  Jazz  Contemporary Folk  

Release Date:  03 May 2024

Label:  Northern Spy

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  309272739367

Genres:  Jazz  Contemporary Folk  

  • Description

    Steph Richards has already made quite a name for herself in the worlds of avant garde music and creative jazz - She has recorded for Relative Pitch and Northern Spy, worked with Laurie Anderson, Anthony Braxton and Ravi Coltrane and studied with Wadada Leo Smith - As co-producer of the FONT Music Festival, Richards worked for years alongside fellow trumpeter Dave Douglas. Her records have been praised for displaying her evident virtuosity and inventiveness, the New York Times calling Richards "boldly inventive." NPR's Nate Chinen says Richards is "ingenious" and Downbeat insisted that she is "the latest figure of note" in jazz while All About Jazz cuts to the chase, saying simply, that Richards "kicks ass."
    It's an impressive history and litany of praise for a young trumpeter, but with her latest full-length for Northern Spy, Power Vibe, Richards pushes even further, marrying avant garde and cinematic moods with a kind of infectious and patently pleasing tunefulness that is certain to expand her dedicated audience even further. The addition of "sensory electronics" -- subtle but compelling textures and tactile rhythms which are physically triggered by drum-mounted sensors -- compels fascination here, interweaving a kind of aural hyper-lucidity throughout the record. Though boldly original, this music strides surefootedly alongside the work of contemporaries like Nicole Mitchell and Rob Mazurek and the late jaimie branch.

    Description

    Steph Richards has already made quite a name for herself in the worlds of avant garde music and creative jazz - She has recorded for Relative Pitch and Northern Spy, worked with Laurie Anderson, Anthony Braxton and Ravi Coltrane and studied with Wadada Leo Smith - As co-producer of the FONT Music Festival, Richards worked for years alongside fellow trumpeter Dave Douglas.

    Her records have been praised for displaying her evident virtuosity and inventiveness, the New York Times calling Richards "boldly inventive." NPR's Nate Chinen says Richards is "ingenious" and Downbeat insisted that she is "the latest figure of note" in jazz while All About Jazz cuts to the chase, saying simply, that Richards "kicks ass." It's an impressive history and litany of praise for a young trumpeter, but with her latest full-length for Northern Spy, Power Vibe, Richards pushes even further, marrying avant garde and cinematic moods with a kind of infectious and patently pleasing tunefulness that is certain to expand her dedicated audience even further. The addition of "sensory electronics" -- subtle but compelling textures and tactile rhythms which are physically triggered by drum-mounted sensors -- compels fascination here, interweaving a kind of aural hyper-lucidity throughout the record. Though boldly original, this music strides surefootedly alongside the work of contemporaries like Nicole Mitchell and Rob Mazurek and the late jaimie branch.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Prey
      • 2. Power Vibe (For Wayne Shorter)
      • 3. October to July (For Dorian)
      • 4. Moutons
      • 5. Reculez
      • 6. Supersense (Live in Bolzano)

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Prey
      • 2. Power Vibe (For Wayne Shorter)
      • 3. October to July (For Dorian)

      Side 2

      • 1. Moutons
      • 2. Reculez
      • 3. Supersense (Live in Bolzano)