Fanous, Ayman / Hwang, Jason Kao: Zilzal

Jason Kao Hwang: Zilzal - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Zilzal

Artist:

Jason Kao Hwang

Label:

Innova Records

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

726708686925

Genre:

Jazz

Release Date:

2013-11-19

Number of Discs:

1

Zilzal is the Arabic word for 'earthquake,' and there couldn't be a more fitting word to describe the collision of musical worlds on the debut album by the duo of guitarist Ayman Fanous and violinist Jason Kao Hwang. Beautifully recorded by Sal Mormando and mastered by Grammy winner Silas Brown, these improvisations were performed with no prior musical planning. But Fanous and Hwang have become so well-attuned to each other's gestures, moods, and trajectories that sometimes the music can sound through-composed. Figure and ground give way to each other seamlessly, and at times meld into one and the same. Throughout the recording, Fanous and Hwang employ the full palettes available to them, resulting in a music that is at once orchestral, cinematic, spontaneous, and at all times, visceral. In short, this is contemporary instrumental music of great beauty, depth, energy, and sensitivity. It represents a snapshot of the complexities, richness, anxieties, exuberances, and polyglot accommodations of 21st century American life.'

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