Dan, Lao: Live At Willimantic Records
Dan, Lao: Live At Willimantic Records
Format: CD
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Artist: Dan, Lao
Label: Family Vineyard
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 656605410920
Genre: Jazz
This is the American debut release from Lao Dan, China's emerging free player on bamboo flute, suona and alto saxophone. Dan's voice is starkly unique, even among the blurred lines of international Improv/Jazz. He's steeped in native traditions yet eagerly obliterates those boundaries with ecstatic intensity and haunting melodies. His dense reedy, drones and jagged melodic shrieks are described as a "Whitmanian yawp," by Marc Medwin in the liner notes. For his inaugural U.S. performance, Dan is welcomed by the outlaw forefathers of New England avant grade: saxophonist Paul Flaherty and percussionist Randall Colbourne. These longtime duo partners, joined by Damon Smith on double bass, show no hesitation in charging head-on with new radical brother. The album's opening moments simmer as Dan and Flaherty meditate at the bottom registers before exploding into a multiphonic sustain of runs and melodic jabs. Smith and Colbourne rattle and roar. It's a splattering overture that eventually resolves as suona and sax merge into a piercing gesture of heartbreaking unity. It turns this record store gig into a point of transcultural definition. Recorded April 2018 at Willimantic Records in Willimantic, Connecticut.
Tracks:
1.1 Noise ; Light
1.2 Winder Dawn
1.3 Long Shadows
1.4 Relentless Still
