Arborescence Aaron Parks

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Album info

Album-Release:
2013

HRA-Release:
04.10.2013

Label: ECM

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Piano

Artist: Aaron Parks

Composer: Aaron Parks

Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)

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  • 1 Asleep in the Forest 04:15
  • 2 Toward Awakening 06:16
  • 3 Past Presence 04:28
  • 4 Elsewhere 07:04
  • 5 In Pursuit 05:33
  • 6 Squirrels 02:22
  • 7 Branchings 05:09
  • 8 River Ways 03:07
  • 9 A Curious Bloom 03:24
  • 10 Reverie 04:17
  • 11 Homestead 03:59
  • Total Runtime 49:54

Info for Arborescence

„Arborescence” bezeichnet eine bestimmte Art von Wachstumsstrukturen, bei denen sich etwas organisch ausbreitet und verzweigt, ähnlich wie sich die Wurzeln, Äste und Zweige eines Baums ihre Wege zum Wasser und Licht suchen. Der junge, vielfach preisgekrönte Pianist Aaron Parks hat seinem ECM-Debüt den Titel „Arborescence“ gegeben, weil es die Frucht einer Studiosession mit Soloimprovisationen ist, bei denen wenig vorbestimmt war und sich die Stücke, wie der Musiker selbst es ausdrückt, „wie Lebewesen“ aus dem Moment heraus entwickelten, „und die Musik sich auf ganz organische Weise ihre Richtung suchte“. Man kann in dieser Musik Einflüsse von Arvo Pärt, Paul Bley, Erik Satie oder Kenny Wheeler wie ein fernes Echo hören, aber „Arborescence“ ist letztlich etwas tief Individuelles und Intimes. Aufgenommen wurde bei gedämpftem Licht in der warmen, aber klaren Akustik der Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts. Das ist kontemplative Instrumentalpoesie, die sich, wie Parks anmerkt, „mitunter weniger wie etwas bewusst Beabsichtigtes, sondern mehr wie etwas halb Geträumtes, halb Erinnertes anfühlte.“

Aaron Parks, Klavier

Recorded November 2011 Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA
Engineered by Rick Kwan
Mixed at Avatar Studios, New York
Produced by Sun Chung


Aaron Parks
Born in California in 1983 and raised in Seattle from age 3, Parks is a former prodigy now in full artistic bloom. By age 15, he was already attending the University of Washington with a triple-major in math, computer science and music; three years later, he was the champion Cole Porter Fellow of the American Pianists Association. Parks appeared on three Blue Note albums by trumpeter-composer Terence Blanchard before making his own album for the label as a leader with the quartet set “Invisible Cinema” – which BBC Online declared “one of the great albums of 2008,” describing the pianist as “a master of melody, and a composer and arranger of protean skill and dexterity.” Parks has also recorded in the ongoing collective James Farm with saxophonist Joshua Redman, as well as contributed to albums by guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, trumpeter Christian Scott, vocalist Gretchen Parlato, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, drummer Kendrick Scott, trumpeter Philip Dizack and guitarist Mike Moreno, among other leading musicians. The Guardian has lauded Parks’ “independent vision,” calling him a “fast-rising star.” The New York Times has praised the pianist for being “a step ahead of everyone else.”

Booklet for Arborescence

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