Mccaslin, Donny / Casting For Gravity
Album: Casting For Gravity   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Mccaslin, Donny   Added:Oct 2012
Label:Greenleaf Music  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2012-10-21 Pull Date: 2012-12-23 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Dec 23 Dec 16 Dec 9 Dec 2 Nov 25 Nov 18 Nov 11 Nov 4
Airplays: 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 2

Recent Airplay
1. Apr 10, 2024: Music Casserole: Donny McCaslin interview
Stadium Jazz
4. Apr 30, 2022: Music Casserole
Tension
2. Apr 06, 2024: Music Casserole
Stadium Jazz
5. Mar 26, 2022: Music Casserole
Love Song For An Echo
3. Sep 10, 2022: Music Casserole
Love Song For An Echo
6. Mar 12, 2022: Music Casserole
Henry

Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2012-10-21
DONNY McCASLIN: Casting for Gravity
Greenleaf, 2012

MODERN FUSION – In-demand saxophonist McCaslin (who grew up in Santa Cruz) has been stretching out his post-bop conception in recent discs. This one has a synthesizer-heavy, retro-futuristic fusion feel that sometimes sounds like modern electronica (4), alternately hard-edged or soft and rounded, with a supple quartet pushed by driving sax solos.

Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 10

1. 7:21 – calm, rising melody and fast, geometric grooves give an ecstatic feel
2. 6:20 – hopscotch sax and evil synths, open in the middle, gathers power
3. 7:40 – soft & cool-toned: a soulful drift through sparkling electronic haze, second half firms up as sax powers through video game landscape
4. 4:14 – cold synths; echo/loop sax pattern emerges, a few electronic bursts
5. 5:51 – spiky groove: sax lets loose in synth/bass grind, bleeps, tough drums
6. 5:52 – angular approach to optimistic, heroically rising tune, keeps building
7. 8:32 – blossoming ballad, starts softly but cries out with sinister undertone
8. 3:58 – low, moody tune with a bit of indie-rock in it, skulks and growls
9. 7:26 – odd-meter percolation; sax solo gets it rolling, synths keep it weird
10. 6:35 – relaxed glide, the most straightforward tune, gentle electric piano

[ Fo ] - 21 October 2012

Track Listing
1. Stadium Jazz   6. Praia Grande
2. Says Who   7. Love Song For An Echo
3. Losing Track Of Daytime   8. Casting For Gravity
4. Alpha And Omega   9. Bend
5. Tension   10. Henry