The beautiful, painterly transcendentalism of 'For D. F.' is streaming and is one part of Two Centuries, a significant avant highlight in 2022 landing post abstract expressionist in a serene oasis of sound, a recording that represents the first small group release of any group instrumentation mix from the new Red Hook label launched last year after the acclaimed initial 5-star solo piano release Hanamichi by the master Masabumi Kikuchi in his final studio work.
''This is a special album, a lot of sweat and work has gone into it,'' says producer Sun Chung about Two Centuries. Shaped around modular synth, trumpet, and drums he continued in an email to us back in June to point out that ''when I put this group together, my guiding principle was to experiment with more atypical musical interactions, but equally important, to put together musicians who would be able to transcend any preexisting concepts and comfort zones.''
Two Centuries is the first meeting in a recording between the avant great poet of the trumpet Wadada Leo Smith and free-jazz legend drummer Andrew Cyrille and in the intergenerational and trans stylistic mix features electronica composer and drummer Qasim Naqvi. Sun Chung who formerly was a Munich based producer at ECM produced the Andrew Cyrille Quartet's The Declaration Of Musical Independence and the Cyrille, Wadada, Bill Frisell classic - Lebroba.
- Interview with Sun Chung
Two Centuries is out in October
Wadada Leo Smith, top left, Qasim Naqvi, Andrew Cyrille. Photo: Red Hook
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