Jussi Reijonen - Three Seconds | Kolme Toista [CD]

CHALLENGE RECORDS

£16.65

Cat. no: CR73545
Format: CD
Barcode: 608917354522
Release Date: 28 Oct 2022
Genre: Jazz

A new album from Jussi Reijonen on Challenge Records featuring Jason Palmer, Bulut Gulen, Layth Sidiq, Naseem Alatrash, Utar Artun, Kyle Miles, Keita Ogawa, Vancil Cooper and Luis Bacque."As I write these notes sitting on my balcony in July 2022, it has been more than 9 years since the release of my debut album and more than 11years since it was recorded

The time since has been a personally tumultuous period of twists and turns – retreat, refection, realization, reassessment,therapy, triumph, trial and error – entangled in a decade- long creative block that had me questioning whether I would ever be able to compose again.Though I felt there was so much I wanted and needed to say, I felt I had lost my voice, or perhaps never had one in the frst place. A constant knot hadgrown tighter and tighter within me over time, but I did not understand what had created it or how it might be undone. In 2018, shaken awake by thecollision of two transients, I suddenly saw in a new light old patterns whose familiar presences I realized I had felt for much of my life, but had until thennever seen for what they were. Following a third, I fnally found the humility to surrender, and as I began re-examining and confronting myself, I slowlystarted to discover new answers – and new questions to ask. Then the Covid-19 pandemic happened, and the world stopped. Like so many of uscaught in the new eerie calm, I retreated into inner spaces. I began revisiting sketches of ideas I had accumulated over the years, and fnally, very,very slowly, new music started to
come. " - Jussi Reijonen

Tracks: Three Seconds - Kolme Toista - I. The Veil / Three Seconds - Kolme Toista - II. Transient / Three Seconds - Kolme Toista - III. The Weaver, Every So Often Shifting the Sands Beneath Her / Three Seconds - Kolme Toista - IV. Verso / Three Seconds - Kolme Toista - V. Median