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Naked Truth

Avishai Cohen

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Format: CD

Cat No: 3899594

Release Date:  25 February 2022

Label:  ECM

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  602438995943

Genres:  Jazz  Contemporary  

Release Date:  07 October 2022

Label:  ECM

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  602445053650

Genres:  Jazz  Contemporary  

  • Description

    There is a searching, yearning quality to Naked Truth, and a raw beauty and vulnerability in Avishai Cohen's trumpet sound on his most improvisational ECM recording to date.

    Very much music-of-the-moment, found and shaped in the course of a remarkable recording session in the South of France, Naked Truth takes the form of an extemporaneous suite. For most of its length, the Israeli trumpeter painstakingly leads the way, closely shadowed by his long-time comrades - pianist Yonathan Avishai, bassist Barak Mori and drummer Ziv Ravitz - who share an intuitive understanding, hyper alert to the music's subtly-changing emphases. At the album's conclusion, Cohen recites "Departure", a poem by Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky, whose themes of renunciation, acceptance and letting go seem optimally attuned to the mood of the music.

    Naked Truth was recorded at Studios La Buissonne in Pernes-les-Fontaines, in September 2021, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

    Avishai Cohen: trumpet
    Yonathan Avishai: piano
    Barak Mori: double bass
    Ziv Ravitz: drums

    Press:

    "Naked Truth is beautifully executed and steered by the idea that improvising musicians good enough to play any headlong stream of consciousness can reveal a lot more if they sometimes play only a fraction of what they know...Cohen's quietest but maybe boldest adventure." - **** The Guardian

    Description

    There is a searching, yearning quality to Naked Truth, and a raw beauty and vulnerability in Avishai Cohen's trumpet sound on his most improvisational ECM recording to date.

    Very much music-of-the-moment, found and shaped in the course of a remarkable recording session in the South of France, Naked Truth takes the form of an extemporaneous suite. For most of its length, the Israeli trumpeter painstakingly leads the way, closely shadowed by his long-time comrades - pianist Yonathan Avishai, bassist Barak Mori and drummer Ziv Ravitz - who share an intuitive understanding, hyper alert to the music's subtly-changing emphases. At the album's conclusion, Cohen recites "Departure", a poem by Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky, whose themes of renunciation, acceptance and letting go seem optimally attuned to the mood of the music.

    Naked Truth was recorded at Studios La Buissonne in Pernes-les-Fontaines, in September 2021, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

    Avishai Cohen: trumpet
    Yonathan Avishai: piano
    Barak Mori: double bass
    Ziv Ravitz: drums

    Press:

    "Naked Truth is beautifully executed and steered by the idea that improvising musicians good enough to play any headlong stream of consciousness can reveal a lot more if they sometimes play only a fraction of what they know...Cohen's quietest but maybe boldest adventure." - **** The Guardian

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Naked Truth Part 1
      • 2. Naked Truth Part 2
      • 3. Naked Truth Part 3
      • 4. Naked Truth Part 4
      • 5. Naked Truth Part 5
      • 6. Naked Truth Part 6
      • 7. Naked Truth Part 7
      • 8. Naked Truth Part 8
      • 9. Naked Truth: Departure

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Naked Truth Part 1
      • 2. Naked Truth Part 2
      • 3. Naked Truth Part 3
      • 4. Naked Truth Part 4
      • 5. Naked Truth Part 5
      • 6. Naked Truth Part 6
      • 7. Naked Truth Part 7
      • 8. Naked Truth Part 8
      • 9. Naked Truth: Departure