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  Artist Title Time    
 
 
 
  Joel Harrison Raindrops in Uncommon Times 09:51    
  Joel Harrison One is Really Many 06:59    
  Joel Harrison Ballad of Blue Mountain 05:56    
  Joel Harrison Permanent Impermanence 05:17    
  Joel Harrison Creator Destroyer 12:48    
  Joel Harrison Blue Mountain (Slight Return) 07:36    
 
 

Joel Harrison
"Still Point: Turning World"

Impacting: October 17 2019

Format(s): Jazz

 
 
 

 

To enter the immersive realm of Still Point: Turning World is to join guitarist/composer Joel Harrison and colleagues in embracing the gloriously enlightening globalization of music, unhindered by category or preconception. This original eight-movement work brings together contemporary percussion quartet Talujon (Matt Ward, Michael Lipsey, Tom Kolor, David Cossin), Indian sarode player Anupam Shobhakar, and jazz musicians Hans Glawaschnig (bass), Ben Wendel (saxophone/bassoon) and Dan Weiss (drums/tabla) to realise the guitarist’s striking, kaleidoscopic vision. Guests include V. Selvaganesh (perc.), Nittin Mitta (tabla), and Stephan Crump (bass).
 

Dive into ‘Raindrops in Uncommon Times' and you’re transported along marimba and tabla-hued tributaries as guitar, sarode, sax, and konnakol improvisations coruscate across its rippling shadows; and in ‘One is Really Many’, the excitement of Shobhakar’s complex Indian raga patterns are matched by Weiss’s intense, fiery drumming. Harrison’s gritty, wailing guitar phrases and Wendel’s extraordinary wailing saxophone color ‘Permanent Impermanence’, leading on to mystically percussive interlude ‘Wind Over Eagle Lake’ and ‘Ballad of Blue Mountain’s W. African-derived rivulets. Furtive ‘Time Present Time Past’ crackles with cross- rhythms and stratified riffs; epic ‘Creator/Destroyer’ explodes with multiple solos and an extraordinary percussion intro; and the relative calm of closing ‘Blue Mountain (A Slight Return)’ is ramped up by mesmeric tabla and kanjira, featuring the exquisite Selvaganesh, who is best known for playing with John McLaughlin in Remember Shakti. Careful listening shows linked themes that binds the work together.

 

The concept of Still Point: Turning World is to take the listener on a soulful journey”, confirms Harrison. “The aim is to go deeply into quiet, private introverted spaces, and then also into passionate explosions of percussive wildness.” This is, indeed, a genre-busting odyssey of discovery.
 

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Please take another opportunity to experience this entirely unique blend of Jazz, Indian music, and classical percussion. According to the New York City jazz record Joel Harrison has created something "stunning" and "powerful" that "breaks new ground." The CD was selected as a feature of the week in Bandcamp. The music is mesmerizing and takes the listener into new worlds of imagination. Featured performers include the percussionist from John McLauglin's group "Shakti," as well as saxophonist Ben Wendel and drummer and tabla maestro Dan Weiss.

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