{"product_id":"sglsa15632-stories-to-tell","title":"Stories To Tell","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eA lively brew of world music, blues, rock, soul, and jazz ingredients, based on Celtic and West African song-forms, featuring top NY downtown players Marc Ribot (guitar) and Mat Maneri (viola).\u003c\/em\u003e\r\n- Mark Werlin, NativeDSD \u0026amp; All About Jazz\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003chr\u003e\r\n\r\nAmerican drummer-bandleader \u003cstrong\u003eSean Noonan\u003c\/strong\u003e has described his \u003cstrong\u003eBrewed by Noon\u003c\/strong\u003e project as “tribal rhythms by an Irish griot” and added “My goal is to adapt folklore in a modern jazz context, merging storytelling and folk music from bardic and griot traditions.” The basic concept isn’t particularly novel in jazz: what happens when “wandering” folk melodies and grooves from different cultures are communally re-created through improvisation. But the ingredients, the brewing methods, and the spirit of the resulting music, are indeed different.\r\n\r\nRecuperating from a near-fatal car accident in 2003, Sean began developing a new project that would blend jazz-punk with west African folk music, and got together again with Senegalese bassist Thierno Camara, an old friend in whose Waaw Band he’d performed years before, to write some new tunes. The first Brewed by Noon album was released independently in 2005, a quartet featuring guitarist friends Aram Bajakian and Jon Madof. He expanded the range of possibilities for this second record by seeking out new collaborators: brilliant downtown jazzers Marc Ribot and Mat Maneri, percussionist Jim Pugliese, Malian vocalist Abdoulaye Diabaté (a griot or hereditary praise singer and younger brother of Kasse Mady Diabaté), as well as Irish gaelic folk\/rock singer Susan McKeown and classical and soul vocalist Dawn Padmore (herself of Liberian parentage). The music was created with the assistance of a commissioning grant from the American Composers Forum.\r\n\r\nThe stories Sean and his band tell in these 10 pieces are exceptionally diverse. There are elements of blues, rock, soul, jazz and improv in various combinations, adding in Celtic and west African song-forms, lyrics, melodic content and instrumental approaches, but all transformed in the process of development. From the funky metaphoric love song to a “Pineapple,” to moral fables about a lost baby elephant in “Esspi” and the presumptuous lord “Massana Cissé,” to the grinding out-rock\/jazz interplay of “Scabies” and the spooky hospital lullaby “Dr. Sleepytime,” to the Irish\/Malian duet “Noonbrews,” Stories to Tell kaleidoscopically refracts its participants’ cultures, talents and musical experiences into an ecstatic, intoxicating vision, one constantly supported by the energy and direction of Sean’s drumming. And New York, the symbolic melting pot where it all transpired, is paid homage to in the musical rollercoaster “NY.”\r\n\r\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStories To Tell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e was creatively mixed to 5 Channel Surround Sound. Heard in that format, the often complex instrumental and vocal interplay stands out in great detail even as the listener is immersed in the music.\r\n\r\n\u003chr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eSean Noonan's Brewed by Noon\r\n\u003c\/strong\u003eSean Noonan, electro-acoustic drumset\r\nMarc Ribot, Aram Bajakian, Jon Madof, electric guitars\r\nMat Maneri, viola\r\nThierno Camara, electric bass, vocals (5), percussion\r\nAbdoulaye Diabaté, vocals (2, 3, 5)\r\nSusan McKeown, vocals (3)\r\nDawn Padmore, vocals (8)\r\nJim Pugliese, percussion\r\nThiokho Diagne, djembe\u003cstrong\u003e\r\n\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Songlines Recordings","offers":[{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56741100650820,"sku":"SGLSA15632-15","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56741100683588,"sku":"SGLSA15632-16","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56741100716356,"sku":"SGLSA15632-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56741100749124,"sku":"SGLSA15632-18","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56741100781892,"sku":"SGLSA15632-19","price":27.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 512 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56741100814660,"sku":"SGLSA15632-21","price":35.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DXD 24 Bit \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56741100847428,"sku":"SGLSA15632-22","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DXD 24 Bit \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56741100880196,"sku":"SGLSA15632-23","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57343000772932,"sku":"SGLSA15632-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57343000805700,"sku":"SGLSA15632S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57343000838468,"sku":"SGLSA15632S1517","price":30.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57343000871236,"sku":"SGLSA15632S1617","price":34.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/SGLSA15632.jpg?v=1778499683","url":"https:\/\/www.nativedsd.com\/products\/sglsa15632-stories-to-tell","provider":"NativeDSD Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}