Avenging Angel Craig Taborn
Album info
Album-Release:
2010
HRA-Release:
26.06.2017
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
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- 1 The Broad Day King 06:16
- 2 Glossolalia 02:44
- 3 Diamond Turning Dream 04:17
- 4 Avenging Angel 06:56
- 5 This Voice Says So 09:43
- 6 Neverland 04:28
- 7 True Life Near 04:29
- 8 Gift Horse / Over the Water 07:37
- 9 A Difficult Thing Said Simply 04:35
- 10 Spirit Hard Knock 04:37
- 11 Neither-Nor 03:18
- 12 Forgetful 07:58
- 13 This Is How You Disappear 05:03
Info for Avenging Angel
“Avenging Angel” is Craig Taborn’s distinguished contribution to the great solo piano tradition at ECM, a powerful, purposeful and rigorous album, which rises to the challenges of the format and transcends them. The disc explores the textural dimensions of sound, builds new structures, uncovers a rugged lyricism. Recorded in the optimal acoustics of the recital room at Lugano’s Studio RSI, with Manfred Eicher producing, it’s Taborn’s first disc under his own name for ECM, following on from inspired sessions with Roscoe Mitchell, Evan Parker, David Torn and Michael Formanek.
He’s served with distinction as a sideman for the likes of James Carter, Chris Potter and David Torn. He’s been in demand for his skills on grand piano, Fender Rhodes, even organ. In 2004 he issued an album under his own name that stands as a defining document of the jazztronica movement. Now Craig Taborn has gone and done something completely surprising: He has recorded a solo album of spontaneously composed works.
It’s easy to imagine how this album might have been made over two days in the studio—Taborn sitting at a piano, waiting for inspiration, plucking a few notes, generating a motif and then going with it. “The Broad Day King” places single-note phrases over an ostinato, with heavy use of sustain and enormous open spaces between thoughts. On “Gift Horse/Over the Water,” the same 10 notes are repeated over two bars, again and again, with Taborn’s right hand tossing chords in different places each time through. Talk about use of space: With “This Voice Says So,” a mere 20 notes are played in the first minute, and the same three-note phrase is repeated six times therein. The album is not all peace and quiet, though. “Glossolalia,” the meeting place of Chopin and Jarrett, finds Taborn wresting spiky three-octave sprints and lower-register thuds out of the keys.
Avenging Angel is an experiment in sound and silence. While brief melodic ideas underpin many of the pieces, equally central to the aesthetic is the actual sound—the reverberations of hammered strings, the oscillations, the durations of sustains. This is delicacy taken to new levels. This music requires the listener to pay close, close attention. Mistake it for background music and you will miss the point altogether. (Steve Greenlee, JazzTimes)
Craig Taborn, piano
Recorded July 2010
Auditorio Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano
Engineer: Stefano Amerio
Technical Assistant: Marco Strigl (RSI)
Produced by Manfred Eicher
Digitally remastered.
Awards: Paul Acket Award 2012 ⎜ North Sea Jazz Festival
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Booklet for Avenging Angel