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| Songs of Sunlife - Inside the Didgeridu |
| Douglas Ewart |
| első megjelenés éve: 2004 |
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| (2004)
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CD |
| 4.060 Ft
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| 1. | Alone, Not Lonely
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| 2. | Mud Bath II
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| 3. | Dancing Inside of Soul
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| 4. | Mud Bath III
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| 5. | Song for Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari
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| 6. | Ginep
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| 7. | Seeds of War
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| 8. | Walk and Drop
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| 9. | Ancestors Flying
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| 10. | Draghopping
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| 11. | Mizu
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| 12. | Mud Bath I
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| 13. | Constant Springs
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Jazz
Douglas Ewart - Artwork, Didjeridu, Flute, Rainstick
Adam Lane - Bass
* Louis Alemayehu - Poetry, Recitation
* Philip Blackburn - Layout Design, Photography
The didjeridu was here long before gunpowder, the pyramids, writing, or the wheel. Invented more than 40,000 years ago by the Aboriginals of Australia, it's one of the world's oldest musical instruments, and on the surface, one of the simplest. When quickened by the breath and spirit of a master, though, this seemingly simple cylinder is capable of springing to life in a manner that might very well give the deities of the didj themselves reason to pause.
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Douglas Ewart is such a master. It's hardly surprising that he designed and built all the didjeridus he employs on Songs of Sunlife. Ewart holds profound respect for the tradition of the instrument and the culture that produced it; he understands that, like any ritual implement, a didjeridu must be fashioned by its user if that user hopes to unleash the implement's power to the fullest---and unleash it he does!
This long-time AACM pillar also teaches this most ancient of instruments more than a few new tricks, taking it to hitherto unexplored psychic regions and generating an astonishing mass of new sonic material, guiding its spirit the way gravity guides dust and gasses to create stars. Whether you've heard zero didjeridus or a thousand, Songs of Sunlife provides the best introduction to the ancient instrument's future imaginable.
Not since Rufus Harley first appeared with his jazz bagpipes in the early '60s has a jazz album featured such an unlikely lead instrument as Douglas Ewart's Songs of Sunlife: Inside the Didgeridu. Ewart, an AACM member who first discovered the Australian aboriginal instrument in the '60s, designed and built all of the instruments he plays on this album, in keeping with the precepts of traditional didgeridoo players. Accompanied on some tracks by bassist Adam Lane and percussionist Stephen Goldstein, Ewart creates complex harmonics and overtones with the deceptively simple instrument, from the quite literally spine-tingling low-register throb of the three-part "Mud Bath" to the lighthearted, almost vocal "Draghopping." A few songs feature other instruments, like the roar flutes (a native Australian instrument that creates a sound akin to a birdsong) on "Ancestors Flying," but the majority of Songs of Sunlife: Inside the Didgeridu is an impressive overview of what can be done with one of the world's most unique instruments, as well as one of the most delightfully idiosyncratic jazz releases since Rahsaan Roland Kirk's similarly conceptual Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata.
---Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
Douglas Ewart
Active Decades: '70s, '80s and '90s
Born: 1946
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Modern Creative
Douglas Ewart's a solid multi-instrumentalist who's made his biggest contribution as a sideman. His steady, energetic solos on alto sax, flute, bass clarinet and bassoon have been heard in the bands of Fred Anderson, George Lewis, Muhal Richard Abrams, Anthony Braxton and Chico Freeman. A Kingston, Jamaica native, Ewart moved to Chicago in 1963. He joined the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in 1967, and studied theory and performance with Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman. He's been featured on several sessions in the '70s,'80s and '90s, but hasn't issued any releases as a leader. Ewart did record a duo album with George Lewis on Black Saint. It's available on CD, and he can be heard on other discs featuring Freeman, Lewis, Braxton and Abrams.
---Ron Wynn, All Music Guide |
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