JURE PUKL - Melt (Marble Vinyl)

WHIRLWIND RECORDINGS

£39.58

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: SRAR0020ME
Barcode: 9003829988857
Release Date: 01 Mar 2024
Genre: Vocal Jazz

MELT BRINGS EVERYTHING TOGETHER TO CONTINUE HIS EXPLORATION OF THE CHORDLESS FORMAT WITH LONGTIME ASSOCIATES JOE SANDERS ON BASS AND NASHEET WAITS ON DRUMS, AUGMENTED BY FREE-WHEELING TRUMPET STAR PETER EVANS IN THE FRONTLINE ALONG PUKL ON TENOR SAX. THE NEW QUARTET SET OUT ACROSS A POST-PANDEMIC EUROPE, ARMED WITH A SET OF JURE’S TUNES THAT ALLOWED A MAXIMUM OF FREEDOM TO EXPLORE GROOVE, TEXTURE, AND MELODY – “WITH THIS MUSIC, I DIDN’T ARRANGE TOO MUCH – IT DEVELOPED ON THE GIGS, WITH THE TRUST WE BUILT ON THE ROAD, WITH THREE OF THE GREATEST MUSICIANS I KNOW.” EACH TUNE CAPTURES A DIFFERENT CONCEPT, FEELING OR STATEMENT. ‘SLIPPERY’ EMERGES FROM A FREE GROUP IMPROV INTO A SKIPPING, SLIDING BASS-DRIVEN MELODY ‘LIKE A PERSON FALLING ON ICE – SLIPPERY IN TERMS OF HOW LIFE CAN BE SLIPPERY’. FOR ‘BALKANOID’, JURE HAD THE GROUP IMPROVISE AT THE EDGE OF EXTENDED TECHNIQUE BEFORE BREAKING INTO AN ALMOST FOLKLORIC MELODY CONJURING UP HIS HOMELAND TO ASK “WHY LIFE IS STILL SO HARD IN THE BALKANS?” ‘CRUISE’ HAS NASHEET AND JOE COOKING UP A MUTANT FUNK BEAT OVER WHICH THE HORNS GO WILD, WHILE AT THE OTHER END OF THE EMOTIONAL SPECTRUM, ‘LET IT GO’ IS A SIMPLE BALLAD, AS DIRECT AND APPEALING AS THE TITLE SUGGESTS. ‘BIRD IN A CAGE’ IS A SHORT POWERFUL STATEMENT THAT SEEMS TO YEARN FOR A WAY TO BREAK OUT FROM ITS CONSTRICTIONS.

SIDE A:
METALURGIC
SLIPPERY
VULNERABLE
BALKANOID
SIDE B:
BIRD IN A CAGE
LOST
CRUISE
LET IT GO
THE HUNT