{"product_id":"sgl16182-kush","title":"Kush","description":"\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{\" his album of original compositions american east coast guitarist ryan blotnick mines a bittersweet melodic vein balanced by an african-influenced rhythmic elan. conceived as antidote to the more aggressive forms new york jazz kush offers freshly-minted waltzes haunting ballads and than touch frisellian americana well variety grooves combining african feels. saxophonist michael blake longtime mentor collaborator is perfect foil contributing own blend lyricism heat harmonic depth. also integral record success buoyant yet laid-back rhythm team scott colberg bass rj miller drums. repays close attention for its subtle details while rewarding listeners attuned moods solos. wanted music simmer just keep expanding opposed my natural inclination sort tell succinct story then step back. alice coltrane journey in satchidananda great example this it doesn register series solos i think has lot common with west possibly indian classical that way. playing on constant variation really hard pull off way he does it. groove always very much there even if all around see extension what paul motian ed blackwell have contributed music. inspirations cites guitarists jacob bro ali farka tour day marc ribot billy strayhorn wayne shorter bill evans bright snow fela kuti niger most popular band tal national was member akoya afrobeat performed south duke mseleku groups. amazing synthesis african-american musics. put me deep section where stuck one line whole twenty-minute song. at first felt like jail time but after seven or eight years found some freedom guess main thing every style=\"\" fingerprint goes beyond anything you could down paper. when passed from generation subtlety about how place accents feel certain rhythms gets lost writing try simplify point memorizable speaks audience directly lee konitz another tried get note starts start fingers heart brain plays lives dies each not forced heavy still light heart. data-sheets-userformat=\"{\" figure:=\"\"\u003eIn his 2016 album of original compositions, American East coast guitarist \u003cstrong\u003eRyan Blotnick\u003c\/strong\u003e mines a bittersweet melodic\/harmonic vein balanced by an African-influenced rhythmic elan. \u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{\" his album of original compositions american east coast guitarist ryan blotnick mines a bittersweet melodic vein balanced by an african-influenced rhythmic elan. conceived as antidote to the more aggressive forms new york jazz kush offers freshly-minted waltzes haunting ballads and than touch frisellian americana well variety grooves combining african feels. saxophonist michael blake longtime mentor collaborator is perfect foil contributing own blend lyricism heat harmonic depth. also integral record success buoyant yet laid-back rhythm team scott colberg bass rj miller drums. repays close attention for its subtle details while rewarding listeners attuned moods solos. wanted music simmer just keep expanding opposed my natural inclination sort tell succinct story then step back. alice coltrane journey in satchidananda great example this it doesn register series solos i think has lot common with west possibly indian classical that way. playing on constant variation really hard pull off way he does it. groove always very much there even if all around see extension what paul motian ed blackwell have contributed music. inspirations cites guitarists jacob bro ali farka tour day marc ribot billy strayhorn wayne shorter bill evans bright snow fela kuti niger most popular band tal national was member akoya afrobeat performed south duke mseleku groups. amazing synthesis african-american musics. put me deep section where stuck one line whole twenty-minute song. at first felt like jail time but after seven or eight years found some freedom guess main thing every style=\"\" fingerprint goes beyond anything you could down paper. when passed from generation subtlety about how place accents feel certain rhythms gets lost writing try simplify point memorizable speaks audience directly lee konitz another tried get note starts start fingers heart brain plays lives dies each not forced heavy still light heart. data-sheets-userformat=\"{\" figure:=\"\"\u003eConceived as an antidote to the more aggressive forms of New York jazz, \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKush\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e offers freshly-minted waltzes, haunting ballads and more than a touch of Frisellian Americana, as well as a variety of grooves combining jazz and African feels. \u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\nThe album is \u003cstrong\u003eExclusively Available in Stereo DSD 512, DSD 256, DSD 128, DSD 64 from NativeDSD\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{\" his album of original compositions american east coast guitarist ryan blotnick mines a bittersweet melodic vein balanced by an african-influenced rhythmic elan. conceived as antidote to the more aggressive forms new york jazz kush offers freshly-minted waltzes haunting ballads and than touch frisellian americana well variety grooves combining african feels. saxophonist michael blake longtime mentor collaborator is perfect foil contributing own blend lyricism heat harmonic depth. also integral record success buoyant yet laid-back rhythm team scott colberg bass rj miller drums. repays close attention for its subtle details while rewarding listeners attuned moods solos. wanted music simmer just keep expanding opposed my natural inclination sort tell succinct story then step back. alice coltrane journey in satchidananda great example this it doesn register series solos i think has lot common with west possibly indian classical that way. playing on constant variation really hard pull off way he does it. groove always very much there even if all around see extension what paul motian ed blackwell have contributed music. inspirations cites guitarists jacob bro ali farka tour day marc ribot billy strayhorn wayne shorter bill evans bright snow fela kuti niger most popular band tal national was member akoya afrobeat performed south duke mseleku groups. amazing synthesis african-american musics. put me deep section where stuck one line whole twenty-minute song. at first felt like jail time but after seven or eight years found some freedom guess main thing every style=\"\" fingerprint goes beyond anything you could down paper. when passed from generation subtlety about how place accents feel certain rhythms gets lost writing try simplify point memorizable speaks audience directly lee konitz another tried get note starts start fingers heart brain plays lives dies each not forced heavy still light heart. data-sheets-userformat=\"{\" figure:=\"\"\u003eNew York saxophonist \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Blake\u003c\/strong\u003e, a longtime Blotnick mentor and collaborator, is the perfect foil, contributing his own blend of lyricism, heat, and harmonic depth. Also integral to the record’s success is the buoyant yet laid-back rhythm team of \u003cstrong\u003eScott Colberg\u003c\/strong\u003e, bass (Calexico) and \u003cstrong\u003eRJ Miller\u003c\/strong\u003e, drums. The album repays close attention for its subtle details while also rewarding listeners more attuned to moods than solos.\u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\nAccording to Blotnick, \u003cem\u003e\"RJ wanted the music to simmer and just keep expanding as opposed to my natural inclination to sort of tell a succinct story and then step back. Alice Coltrane’s music (e.g. Journey in Satchidananda) is a great example of this – it doesn’t register as a series of solos and I think it has a lot in common with West African and possibly Indian classical music that way. I think RJ’s playing on this record has a constant variation that is really hard to pull off the way he does it. The groove is always very much there even if he is playing all around it. I see it as an extension of what Paul Motian and Ed Blackwell have contributed to the music.”\u003c\/em\u003e\r\n\r\nAmong the inspirations for \u003cem\u003eKush\u003c\/em\u003e Blotnick cites guitarists Jacob Bro (“Lunenburg”), Ali Farka Touré (“May Day”) and Marc Ribot, Alice Coltrane (“Kush”, “May Day”), Billy Strayhorn (“Spring”), Wayne Shorter and Bill Evans (“Delaware”, “And Bright Snow”), Fela Kuti, and Niger’s most popular band Tal National (“DX7”).\r\n\r\nRyan was a member of New York’s Akoya Afrobeat and has performed in South African saxophonist Duke Mseleku’s groups. “Afrobeat is an amazing synthesis of West African and African-American musics. Playing with Akoya put me deep in the rhythm section where I was stuck with one rhythm line for the whole twenty-minute song. At first it felt like jail time but after seven or eight years I found some freedom there! I guess the main thing with African music is that every style has its own rhythmic fingerprint that goes way beyond anything you could put down on paper.\r\n\r\nWhen the music is passed down from generation to generation there is a subtlety about how to place accents and how to feel certain rhythms that gets lost in music that is passed down in writing…I always try to simplify my music to the point where it is memoizable – I also think it speaks to the audience more directly this way.” Lee Konitz is another mentor figure: “He tried to get me to think about where the note starts – does it start in the fingers? Or the heart? Or the brain? When Lee plays he lives and dies with each note but it is also not forced – it is very heavy yet still light at heart.”\r\n\r\n\u003chr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{\" his album of original compositions american east coast guitarist ryan blotnick mines a bittersweet melodic vein balanced by an african-influenced rhythmic elan. conceived as antidote to the more aggressive forms new york jazz kush offers freshly-minted waltzes haunting ballads and than touch frisellian americana well variety grooves combining african feels. saxophonist michael blake longtime mentor collaborator is perfect foil contributing own blend lyricism heat harmonic depth. also integral record success buoyant yet laid-back rhythm team scott colberg bass rj miller drums. repays close attention for its subtle details while rewarding listeners attuned moods solos. wanted music simmer just keep expanding opposed my natural inclination sort tell succinct story then step back. alice coltrane journey in satchidananda great example this it doesn register series solos i think has lot common with west possibly indian classical that way. playing on constant variation really hard pull off way he does it. groove always very much there even if all around see extension what paul motian ed blackwell have contributed music. inspirations cites guitarists jacob bro ali farka tour day marc ribot billy strayhorn wayne shorter bill evans bright snow fela kuti niger most popular band tal national was member akoya afrobeat performed south duke mseleku groups. amazing synthesis african-american musics. put me deep section where stuck one line whole twenty-minute song. at first felt like jail time but after seven or eight years found some freedom guess main thing every style=\"\" fingerprint goes beyond anything you could down paper. when passed from generation subtlety about how place accents feel certain rhythms gets lost writing try simplify point memorizable speaks audience directly lee konitz another tried get note starts start fingers heart brain plays lives dies each not forced heavy still light heart. data-sheets-userformat=\"{\" figure:=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRyan Blotnick, Guitar\r\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Blake, Saxophone\r\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScott Colberg, Bass\r\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRJ Miller, Drums\r\nJonny Lam, Pedal Steel Guitar (on \"Lunenburg\")\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Songlines Recordings","offers":[{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56740439687492,"sku":"SGL16182-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56740439720260,"sku":"SGL16182-15","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56740439753028,"sku":"SGL16182-16","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 512 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56740439785796,"sku":"SGL16182-21","price":35.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DXD 24 Bit \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56740439818564,"sku":"SGL16182-22","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"WAV  88.2 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56740439851332,"sku":"SGL16182-72","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57342795120964,"sku":"SGL16182-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/SGL16182.jpg?v=1778497535","url":"https:\/\/www.nativedsd.com\/products\/sgl16182-kush","provider":"NativeDSD Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}