Potter, Chris / Sirens, The
Album: Sirens, The   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Potter, Chris   Added:Feb 2013
Label:Ecm Records (Jazz)  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2013-02-16 Pull Date: 2013-04-21 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Apr 21 Apr 14 Apr 7 Mar 31 Mar 24 Mar 17 Mar 10 Mar 3
Airplays: 2 1 1 1 1 4 3 2

Recent Airplay
1. Feb 03, 2022: The Red Wheelbarrow (rebroadcast from Mar 13, 2013)
The Sirens, Wine Dark Sea
4. Sep 20, 2014: The Proselytizer Radio News Hour in a House in Space
Wayfinder
2. Mar 21, 2017: Waste FM
Nausikaa
5. Jan 03, 2014: No Cover, No Minimum: Remembering 2013
Wayfinder
3. Apr 01, 2016: Rebop
The Sirens
6. Apr 19, 2013: No Cover, No Minimum: Track 6
Kalypso

Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2013-02-16
CHRIS POTTER: The Sirens
ECM, 2013

MODERN JAZZ – Top saxophonist leads a great quintet through a suite inspired by the themes and emotions of The Odyssey. Both poetic and grooving, with moments of cold, cerebral abstraction and heated, sometimes even funky drive (check out #2, it has all of that). This is unpredictable but cohesive – and really interesting – stuff. The use of piano + atmospheric acoustic keyboards gives it all a dreamlike air.

Chris Potter : saxophones, bass clarinet
Craig Taborn : piano
David Virelles : piano, celeste, harmonium
Larry Grenadier : bass
Eric Harland : drums

Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6

1. 8:49 – lyrical intro, lightly funky traveling rhythm; solos cover a lot of ground
2. 6:53 – cool rhythm, understated sound: gazes into distance, solves puzzles
3. 7:26 – optimistic intro, then quiet and chilly, introspective and questioning
4. 8:40 – soft, gentle and slowly flowing, with bass clarinet & bowed bass solo
5. 7:17 – aching ballad with soprano sax: outstanding solo from Potter
6. 8:26 – lopsided, meandering tune with strong hints of calypso and bebop
7. 5:44 – relaxed ballad, very dreamlike with gentle piano + celeste
8. 8:16 – serious, steadfast sound; marches along w/ knotty sax, flowing piano
9. 2:12 – very quiet, very spare solo piano, lots of silence

[ Fo ] - 16 February 2013

Track Listing
1. Wine Dark Sea   5. Penelope
2. Wayfinder   6. Kalypso
3. Dawn (With Her Rosy Fingers)   7. Nausikaa
4. The Sirens   8. Stranger At The Gate
  9. The Shades