George Colligan: Nation Divided - COMPACT DISCS
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Artist: George Colligan
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 4055388386686
Genre: Pop
Release Date: 2018-09-14
Number of Discs: 1
In his first solo piano release for Whirlwind - 'Nation Divided' - George Colligan takes a lead from Duke Ellington's quoted notion that "this is not piano. This is dreaming". The Portland-based pianist and multi-instrumentalist is known for numerous sideman appearances on the bandstand with names such as Jack DeJohnette, Larry Grenadier, Don Byron, Cassandra Wilson, and can be found on over a hundred album recordings (including 2017's 'More Powerful' - WR4708). But, as he elucidates, this is different: "After a lot of trio and ensemble records, I wanted to get back to the piano to clear the air and represent my thoughts again in solitude. The whole session was captured in a single day by respected pianist David Goldblatt in his basement studio". Finding a correlation between the written and the spontaneous, some of Colligan's pieces are fully improvised, others through-composed, or they combine elements of both. "I love Ellington's idea that it doesn't matter what it is - it's just dreaming", he explains. I like to let things happen, but on 'the road less travelled' rather than the familiar; and in musical conversations with myself, I can take as many risks as I wish. A recurrent restlessness in Colligan's thirteen originals is validated by provocatively-named title track 'Nation Divided', it's two different keys and motifs agitatedly attempting to link up but never quite making it.Wounds Of Another Time / Closure / Between Two Worlds / Street Fight / Blues For Charleston / Nights Of Passion / The Strength To Move On / Nation Divided / Prelude / If That's All There Is To Say / Cognac Logic / Sentimental Foolishness / Saddest Of All Keys
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