A Walk To Meryton
Redshift, 2024
8/10
The Canadian composer Arne Eigenfeldt enlists John Korsrud, Meredith Bates, Barbara Adler and Jon Bentley for these iconoclastic forms of jazz that embrace Musebots for the synthetic contributions.
“Room For A Moment” opens the listen with smooth talking amid soothing and light buzzing that radiates a cinematic quality, and “For As You Are” follows with more focus on percussive sounds via the descriptive wordplay.
Halfway through, “Estate Of Two” carries both bright tones and lower registers thanks to the synthetic versus organic gestures, while “Readiness Of Four” blends Korsrud’s soft trumpet with hushed sax Bentley.
Close to the end, “Of Threadbare Morality To Listen” lands near the end, and flows with subtle harmonics that allows the rich brass to shine, and “Pleasure To Suffer” follows with ambient sounds placed amid the elegant musicianship and dreaminess.
Bates’ well timed violin adds even more elegance to the affair, as Eigenfeldt’s use of intelligent, generative music aligns with the atypical jazz ideas.
Travels well with: James Rolfe- Wound Turned To Light; Christopher Whitley- Describe Yourself