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| Chocolate Moment |
| Tuck & Patti |
első megjelenés éve: 2002
50 perc |
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| (2008)
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| 3.239 Ft
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| 1. | Comfort Me
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| 2. | Love Flows Like a River
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| 3. | One for All
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| 4. | Reverie
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| 5. | Wildflower
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| 6. | Rejoice
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| 7. | Chocolate Moment
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| 8. | Interlude in the Key of P
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| 9. | Blast Past Your Illusions
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| 10. | Knowing
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Jazz / New Acoustic; Crossover Jazz; Standards; Smooth Jazz
Tuck & Patti
Tuck Andress - Engineer, Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Remastering
Patti Cathcart - Arranger, Producer, Vocals
* Bernadine Bibiano - Hair Stylist, Make-Up
* Bernie Grundman - Mastering
* Howard Johnston - Assembly, Mixing, Remastering
* Joseph Schmidt
* Justin Lieberman - Assistant, Engineer
* Lisa Fremont - Stylist
* Michele Clement - Photography
* Sonny Mediana - Design
With nothing more than voice and guitar, Tuck & Patti have quietly changed the world. Not as revolutionaries, though their music can stir passions deeper than those heated by angry agitation. And not as pushers of the proverbial envelope, unless one grants that a style based on exquisite miniature gestures will captivate listeners even more than flamboyant avant indulgences. No, the sound of Tuck & Patti is a seed that nestles and grows in the garden of the soul. It opens slowly, like a blossom that somehow spreads as much light as it draws, until the last shards of darkness disappear. Like sun and gentle rain on hard-caked earth, it can work miracles. Through whispered ballads as well as playful swing, through a style that tempers simplicity with brisk flashes of virtuosity, Tuck Andress & Patti Cathcart have cast this magic for years -- but now, on their ninth album, Chocolate Moment, they are challenged as well as liberated in ways that no one could have predicted even just a year ago.
Throughout their personal and professional marriage, Patti Cathcart and Tuck Andress have extended their love to audiences and to the broader wonders of the world. But the world changed for them, as for everyone, on September 11, 2001. The uncertainties that now define our times put the positive energy of the duo to its greatest test. "This whole CD, every part of it, is connected to that," Patti says. "We were going through all these feelings at the same time: anger, disbelief, wanting to get into bed and pull the covers up. All these emotions went into the first song, 'Comfort Me' -- and that was just the beginning." There are haunted and delicate moments on "Comfort Me." Notes from Tuck's guitar glisten behind the smoky intensity of Patti's vocal: "All my illusions have been shattered/crumbled down in smoke and glass/and I need someone to help me understand." But then, with rising strength: "I can't lay down in despair/'cause I know that there are people who need my help out there. ... If peace is an option, why don't we take it/I love all my people, I won't forsake them." And with that, a journey begins, on which we learn that the beauties we had once taken for granted seem even more beautiful now.
On 'Wildflower', Tuck's guitar purrs and stretches behind Patti's hymn to the "mystical miracle" of women who "take their time" and endure "like a wildflower, growing in the rocks and in the sand." The mood perks up on 'Rejoice', a carnival of delicate rhythms and scatted invitations to "wave all of our sorrows goodbye." There are songs that take us back to innocent childhood ("All For One"), or sink into a lazy daydream ('Reverie'), or maybe roll their eyes to some fine thing walking down the street and into our hearts, even if only for just one 'Chocolate Moment'. "For me," Patti says, "a chocolate moment is that second where you eat that great piece of chocolate, and you're just going ... mmmm! Then it started becoming about a person who reminds us of that feeling, or gives it to us. That's when I knew I had to call the whole album Chocolate Moment, because in light of all the intensity that we've been experiencing, I thought it was time to slow down and savor that moment."
The genius of Tuck & Patti assures that each of these moments is distinct, like one breath separated from another, yet it all flows in a single current. Its source, according to Tuck, is the decision he and Patti made years ago to pursue their art within limitations other musicians would consider severe. "Because it's just the two of us, we're probably halfway crazy from getting so far into each detail," he admits. "And after you decide to do only what you can do with a live voice and a live guitar, without turning tone controls or adding effects, the next step is to pretend that each song we do is the only song in the world and treat it with that kind of respect.
That has also supported Patti's compositional process: Each song becomes its own little universe." These universes, and the unity they achieve on Chocolate Moment, are the duo's greatest triumph to date -- an affirmation of the beliefs that sustain them in music and in life. "It's not like the blues isn't great, or that there isn't a place for Rage Against The Machine," Patti says. "But these songs are truly my thoughts. It is so necessary to find the best side of everything, especially in the dark of the moment." The point? Even the darkest moment is just one shade away from becoming a Chocolate Moment. Have a taste ...
For just the second time in their career, Tuck & Patti offer an album that contains only original material. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that Chocolate Moment is the first release on their own label. Equally likely is that, as with many other artists, their creativity was stirred to an unusual turbulence by the World Trade Center tragedy of the previous year. Its traces can be discerned most clearly in the lyrics to "Comfort Me," a plea for help after "all my illusions have...crumbled down in smoke and glass," and in a festive call, set to a township beat, to get past "the season of crying" in "Rejoice." The same shadow touches most of the other tracks as well, though Cathcart's positive-energy emanations make them harder to spot on, for example, "Love Flows Like a River," a gentle meditation that turns out to be about saying goodbye to loved ones. What stands intact throughout Chocolate Moment is the intimacy of their musical union, with Tuck's astonishing accompaniment glistening against Patti's honeyed, soulful tones. Her songs are not easy to play -- and, as the shortage of breath spots in "Knowing" illustrates, they can be tricky to sing as well. Yet, in the manner of every great duo, they make it all seem easy and, always, supremely musical throughout Chocolate Moment.
---Robert L. Doerschuk, All Music Guide
Tuck & Patti
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: 1981
Genre: Jazz
Styles: New Acoustic, Crossover Jazz, Standards, Smooth Jazz
Over a career of jazz, R&B, and crossover recordings, husband-and-wife duo Tuck & Patti have produced a remarkable amount of music, especially considering that they rely on the textures of only guitar and voice. Tuck Andress was born in Oklahoma and studied classical guitar at Stanford University before traveling to Las Vegas to audition for a show band in 1980; also there was Patti Cathcart, a San Francisco native who was classically trained in the Bay Area. The two hit it off immediately, and began to perform as a duo around California beginning in 1981. They were married in 1983, but resisted recording contracts so they could cement their unique sound. Finally, in 1987, Tuck & Patti signed to Windham Hill Jazz, recording albums for the label in 1988 (Tears of Joy), 1989 (Love Warriors), and 1991 (Dream). Tuck Andress also released several solo albums for Windham Hill, and the duo signed to Epic in 1995. Tuck & Patti's first album for Epic, Learning How to Fly, alternated Cathcart originals with several covers of contemporary standards. Paradise Found followed in 1998. Taking the Long Way Home appeared two years later. In 2002 Chocolate Moment, only their second album of original songs, and the first on their own label, was released, followed the next year with A Gift of Love, a collection of romantic covers originally intended solely for the Asian market, though the success it found there prompted Tuck & Patti to also issue it in Europe and the U.S. In 2006, the third Windham Hill compilation, Pure Tuck & Patti, was released.
--- John Bush, All Music Guide |
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