View Larger
Rate it!
Avg: 3.5 (12 ratings)
- Date Released: November 13, 2007
- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Avant-garde
- Label: Songlines Recordings / IODA
Lounge Lizard and Get Shorty soundtracker gets Vancouver's best for his seventh outing as a leader.
-
We Say...
Here’s a disc with a distinctive personality. A former Lounge Lizard who composed the soundtrack to Get Shorty and frequently works with bassist Ben Allison, the saxophonist and Montreal native Michael Blake has enlisted a Vancouver-based ensemble for his seventh outing as a leader. Some of these eight originals are ominous, others sly and simple as layered nursery rhymes; a few are winding and episodic.
Thus, you’ve got the appropriately named “Ghostline” (spooky until a staccato, piano-sax joust) and a title track that opens like a sonic tableau of a foggy waterfront, the music shrouded and damp, clangy and spectral. But you’ve also got the tinkly piano, modest sax, and gentle cymbal that makes the opening of “Temporary Constellation” endearingly juvenile and fragile, and the neatly monikered “Paddy Pie Face,” with a vamp that goes a tad OCD. In the middle is the remarkably pleasant “The Wash Away,” a lark with a catchy melody and minor-key undertow, set right between the languid, dolefully serpentine “So Long Seymour” and “Infirmary,” which seems more elegy than rumination until the trumpet briskly shakes the comatose.
This is keen writing in more ways than one, a collection of many moods and musical breadth, yet obviously coming from the same character.
“ The indie iTunes — Hardcore music fans are migrating to eMusic, the iTunes Music Store's cheaper, cooler cousin.”
Rolling Stone
eMusic Tip
Paid downloads are counted towards an album discount but free downloads are not.
COMPLETE FOR FREE!
You can download the rest of the tracks from this album for free! Just click the Complete Album button.
We’re sorry this album can only be downloaded using paid subscription download credits.
We recommend you Save it for Later by clicking the Save for Later button shown just above this message. For a list of related albums you can download right now, check out these recommendations.
We'll give you 8 additional free credits to download this album and start your paid subscription.
Get 8 bonus credits on us if you download this album. Sweet!
| 01. |  |
Ghostline
|
4:42 |
|
| 02. | |
Temporary Constellation
|
7:16 |
|
| 03. | |
Amor de Cosmos
|
9:52 |
|
| 04. | |
So Long Seymour
|
10:56 |
|
| 05. | |
The Wash Away
|
7:22 |
|
| 06. | |
Infirmary
|
5:00 |
|
| 07. | |
The Hunt
|
5:44 |
|
| 08. | |
Paddy Pie Face
|
6:22 |
|
08 Total Tracks, 57:14 Total Length
Loading...
Playlists If you like Michael Blake Sextet, check out these member playlists
Choose from over 7 million
music downloadseMusic features legendary and emerging artists in every genre: classic rock to classical,indie to international, soundtracks to spiritual, jazz to country and many more.
MP3 downloads work on any digital media player
With eMusic, you OWN your music without any restrictions. Burn music to a CD, play it on your computer, mobile phone or any digital media player - including iPod®, Zune® and Walkman®.
Songs available for 50¢ or less
eMusic subscriptions start at just $11.99 a month for 24 downloads - that's just 50¢ per song! And it gets better from there - our plans go as low as 42¢ per song!
Music Discovery
eMusic is about discovery. We make finding new music fun again with music recommendations from our award-winning team of music experts, member playlists and new music features.
Cancel anytime
With all the great music and site features we're pretty sure you will love eMusic. If not, no problem. You can cancel at any time and keep the music you have downloaded.
© 1992 - 2009 All Media Guide, LLC