Jason Robinson

https://jasonrobinson.bandcamp.com

Jason RobinsonJason Robinson is an American saxophonist, flutist, and composer. He releases three new albums in summer and fall 2020, including Two Hours Early, Ten Minutes Late: Duo Music of Ken Aldcroft, with Eric Hofbauer (Accretions), The Urgency of Now, with Bruno Råberg and Bob Weiner (Creative Nation Music), and Harmonic Constituent, with Joshua White, Drew Gress, and Ches Smith (Playscape).Harmonic Constituent, released 10 November 20201. Harmonic Constituent2. Phase 13. Jug Handle4. Shear 15. Seventh Wave6. Melange Geometry7. Isobathic Sounding8. Phase 29. The Interval10. Apogean Tide11. Shear 212. Mountain In Your Mind13. Jug Handle (alt)Harmonic ConstituentJason Robinson (tenor and soprano saxophones, alto flute)Joshua White (piano)Drew Gress (bass)Ches Smith (drum set, glockenspiel)www.jasonrobinson.comwww.playscape-recordings.comPlayscape Recordings PSR# 081119"The tide teaches us to live with mystery and complexity … The tide is vibration, music, time."-Jonathan White, Tides: The Science and Spirit of the OceanIn April 2018 I spent a solitary week along the rugged coastline of Mendocino County in northern California. A self designed artist retreat of sorts, my aim was simple: to compose an album’s worth of new material, adding a new chapter to Resonant Geographies (pfMENTUM), an album I released just one month prior. While this earlier project was a meditation on the ephemeral connections between places, memories, and communities, this new project assumed a focus more specific to this stretch of the “north coast,” as some refer to it. Walking the rugged beaches and cliffs of that magnificent coastline, smelling the salty and kelp-imbued air, looking out at the magnificent, omnipresent Pacific, and turning around to see the tree-covered ridges of the Mendocino National Forest was not a new experience to me. I’ve been visiting that magical meeting place of sea and mountains since I was a young child.Each piece on this album is inspired by a technical, and sometimes impressionistic, aspect of the oceanography, tidal dynamics, and geography specific to the coastline between Mendocino, CA and Westport, CA. “Harmonic constituent” is an oceanographic term that refers to the complex influences of the cyclical motion of the Earth, Sun, and Moon on tides at specific locations. Rather than reveal the details of the various translations of data, sight, smell, geography, and other elements that I used to generate musical structure—that in turn were brought to life in collaboration with my wonderful friends and bandmates—I’d prefer to let the music and our performances stand on their own without too much guidance, to hopefully spark a memory or imaginative coastal scape of your own.-Jason Robinson

Category: Arts & Entertainment

Country: United States of America (US)

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