Dave Douglas - Secular Psalms

GREENLEAF MUSIC

£12.94

Cat. no: CDGRE1090
Format: CD
Barcode: 186980000909
Release Date: 01 Apr 2022
Genre: Jazz

Secular Psalms is a new Dave Douglas studio album featuring a newly commissioned suite of ten pieces, with an entirely new group of young international musicians

Invited by the City of Gent and Handelsbeurs Theater to commemorate 600 years since the creation of the Gent Altarpiece by Jan Van Eyck, Douglas branches out into new instruments like the serpent, lute, organ and sampler, providing a painterly panorama of new sounds. Drawing on Latin Mass, on early medieval folk songs, on composers of the period, like Guillaume DuFay, and on jazz and
improvised music, Douglas and team deliver a lyrical, mystical, spiritual score full of upbeat optimism for our times. Douglas says the title refers to ""songs of praise for all of us.' For this project he has invited musicians Tomeka Reid, Marta Warelis, Berlinde Deman, Frederick Leroux and Lander Gyselinck. A surprising and uplifting release created during these pandemic times.

Tracks: Arrival / Mercy / We Believe / Agnus Dei / Instrumental Angels / If I’m In Church More Often Now / Hermits and Pilgrims / Righteous Judges / Ah Moon / Edge of Night