Release Date: 13 September 2024
Label: Tao Forms
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 642623801628
Genres: Jazz Experimental
Release Date: 13 September 2024
Label: Tao Forms
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 642623801611
Genres: Jazz Experimental
Description
With Anchors, Chicago-based bass clarinetist-composerJason Steinarises from a six-year hiatus as bandleader with his most personal, nuanced, and expansive album to date. It was created together with bassist Joshua Abrams (Natural Information Society, of which Stein has been a member since 2017), drummer Gerald Cleaver (whose bona fides run deep & wide), and guest artist/co-producer Boon. Anchors is a suite of great beauty and potency, moving from meditative calms to lyrical buoyancy to gripping intensity and againto a transformative peace found in unity.
Anchors are, so often, symbolic of strength and stability. They reflect our capacity to steady ourselves in turbulent waters, allowing us to traverse the deepest seas. With anchors aboard, we can quell our fears, weather the storm, and chart forth. In all their looming weight, anchors allow us to be free. With Anchors, Jason Stein emerges with a luminous tribute to anchors of his own. Amidst the discomfort of transformation, he reaches into a reservoir of resilience and invites us to do the same.
On Anchors, Stein is joined by bassist Joshua Abrams and drummer Gerald Cleaver, two illustrious improvisers rooted as much in the jazz tradition as they are in contemporary experimental approaches. Abrams' grounding in multifarious music traditions gives way to a visionary synthesis of styles, perhaps most apparent in his acclaimed Natural Information Society. Stein has recorded and toured with the group since 2017, and the unmistakable intuitive interplay between these long-time collaborators is a through-line onAnchors. Gerald Cleaver, a definitive stylist in the international creative music community, works with Stein for the first time here, shaping the record with a skillful prowess as impressive as his distinctive sound.
CD:deluxe 6-panel digipak, printed on heavyweight board.
LP: black vinyl, jacket printed on heavier weight board.includes full-res download card, strictly limited LP edition of 500.
Jason Stein: bass clarinet, compositions
Joshua Abrams: bass
Gerald Cleaver: drums
+ Boon: guitar on "Anchor", compositions
Description
With Anchors, Chicago-based bass clarinetist-composerJason Steinarises from a six-year hiatus as bandleader with his most personal, nuanced, and expansive album to date. It was created together with bassist Joshua Abrams (Natural Information Society, of which Stein has been a member since 2017), drummer Gerald Cleaver (whose bona fides run deep & wide), and guest artist/co-producer Boon. Anchors is a suite of great beauty and potency, moving from meditative calms to lyrical buoyancy to gripping intensity and againto a transformative peace found in unity.
Anchors are, so often, symbolic of strength and stability. They reflect our capacity to steady ourselves in turbulent waters, allowing us to traverse the deepest seas. With anchors aboard, we can quell our fears, weather the storm, and chart forth. In all their looming weight, anchors allow us to be free. With Anchors, Jason Stein emerges with a luminous tribute to anchors of his own. Amidst the discomfort of transformation, he reaches into a reservoir of resilience and invites us to do the same.
On Anchors, Stein is joined by bassist Joshua Abrams and drummer Gerald Cleaver, two illustrious improvisers rooted as much in the jazz tradition as they are in contemporary experimental approaches. Abrams' grounding in multifarious music traditions gives way to a visionary synthesis of styles, perhaps most apparent in his acclaimed Natural Information Society. Stein has recorded and toured with the group since 2017, and the unmistakable intuitive interplay between these long-time collaborators is a through-line onAnchors. Gerald Cleaver, a definitive stylist in the international creative music community, works with Stein for the first time here, shaping the record with a skillful prowess as impressive as his distinctive sound.
CD:deluxe 6-panel digipak, printed on heavyweight board.
LP: black vinyl, jacket printed on heavier weight board.includes full-res download card, strictly limited LP edition of 500.
Jason Stein: bass clarinet, compositions
Joshua Abrams: bass
Gerald Cleaver: drums
+ Boon: guitar on "Anchor", compositions
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet
James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet
Whit Dickey, William Parker & Matthew Shipp
Matthew Shipp
Fay Victor & Herbie Nichols SUNG
Whit Dickey Trio
Matthew Shipp
Michael Bisio, Karl Berger, Mat Maneri & Whit Dickey
Eclectic Maybe Band
U
Tullis Rennie
Spaceheads
Various Artists
Saagara
Dal:um
Neil Feather
