Lage, Julian / Sounding Point
Album: Sounding Point   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Lage, Julian   Added:May 2009
Label:Emarcy Records  

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Add Date: 2009-07-19 Pull Date: 2009-09-20 Charts: Jazz
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Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2009-07-18
JULIAN LAGE: Sounding Point
EmArcy, 2009

MODERN ACOUSTIC – Varied and deeply folksy, this debut by 21-year old guitarist Lage (a Bay Area native) draws on classical, bluegrass/newgrass and world music ideas, sounding like a new-age tone poem at one moment and a hip indie film score in the next. Béla Fleck and Chris Thile show up on three tracks (4,6,10), but I also hear a lot of Chick Corea in here, wrapped in an ECM-style echoing calm.

* * * * | Fo’s Picks: 2, 4, 6, 8, 12

1. 5:54 – easygoing & pensive, rhythmic & flowing; cello and exotic drumming
2. 7:16 – calm chamber jazz, a touch of noir cinema and some nifty accents
3. 2:58 – solo acoustic guitar improvisation: pensive, then soaring
4. 3:23 – guitar/madolin/banjo trio w/ Thile & Fleck: freefall interplay
5. 0:46 – brief guitar/sax duet
6. 5:47 – guitar/madolin/banjo: offbeat stride, dances around a slashing theme
7. 2:18 – soft sax/guitar/bass: small lumpy theme in 1st half, vamping 2nd half
8. 5:20 – unrecognizable Basie band classic: pulsating, chilly, very folkish
9. 4:27 – contemporary piano/guitar duet with Taylor Eigsti, Brazilian flavor
10. 2:19 – relaxed and very sunny guitar/mandolin/banjo stroll
11. 2:39 – solo guitar improvisation based on melody to #6
12. 5:54 – melody spins lazily over busy percussion; good solos
13. 7:14 – Lage & Eigsti cover Miles, emphasizing the blues in “All Blues”

[ Fo ] 07/18/09

Track Listing
1. Clarity   7. Quiet, Through And Through
2. All Purpose Beginning   8. Lil' Darlin'
3. Familiar Posture   9. Tour One
4. The Informant   10. Alameda
5. Peterborough   11. Constructive Rest
6. Long Day, Short Night   12. Motor Minder
  13. Encore: All Blues