Golden Hearts Remembrance, by Wadada Leo Smith, N'Da Kulture

Golden Hearts Remembrance

by Wadada Leo Smith, N'Da Kulture

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1.	Emmeya (For Alex Wallace) 12:08	buy track
2.	Lotus Garden (For Amiya Dasgupta) 12:15	buy track
3.	Tawhid (For Lamar) 09:50	buy track
4.	Golden Hearts Rememberence, A Nur Bakhshad (For Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh) 12:48	buy track
5.	Condor (Memorial For Dizzy Gillespie) 14:42	buy track
6.	Mother: Sarah Brown-Smith-Wallace (1920-1992) 07:28	buy track

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Recorded in 1997, Wadada Leo Smith's N'da Kulture has created a music that transcends all forms by integrating many of them into an amorphous yet deeply moving whole. This sextet, which uses Eastern and Western instruments, authors into being a kind of folk music for the emerging century, one that relies deeply on poetry, improvisation, subtleties in tone, timbre, and rhythm. The six pieces here reflect Smith's ongoing concern with marrying the vanguard jazz tradition he comes from to the history of the ages in Eastern music, particularly the music of Asia. Glenn Horiuchi plays piano and shamisen, Hakumi Makino Smith reads poetry, William Roper plays tuba, David Philipson plays bansuri and tambura, and Sonship Theus plays drums. All of the works here segue into others, shimmering along with spatial reflections and subtle tonal interaction that relies on the execution of sound as sound rather than as a series of notes to be correctly played in a composition. As a result, sound clashes become sonant washes of envelopment, traces of ghost music playing in trance and tapestry. There is no one body to this music because it comes from an emptiness, an interconnectedness of approach, technique, conical shape and sound; they sing a resounding yes to the future. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music

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released August 12, 1997

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Wadada Leo Smith New Haven, Connecticut

Wadada Leo Smith, trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser is one of the most acclaimed creative artists of his times, both for his music and his writings. For the last five decades, Mr. Smith has been a member of the historical and legendary AACM collective. He distinctly defines his music as “Creative Music.” ... more

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