Lage, Julian / Sounding Point
| Album: | Sounding Point | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Lage, Julian | Added: | May 2009 | |
| Label: | Emarcy Records | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2009-07-19 | Pull Date: | 2009-09-20 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Sep 13 | Sep 6 | Aug 30 | Aug 23 | Aug 9 | Aug 2 | Jul 26 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 17, 2021: | Draupadi's Half-Hidden Garden
Long Day, Short Night |
4. | Sep 11, 2009: | No Cover, No Minimum
Motor Minder |
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| 2. | Aug 09, 2013: | No Cover, No Minimum
Constructive Rest |
5. | Sep 04, 2009: | No Cover, No Minimum
Long Day, Short Night |
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| 3. | Oct 09, 2009: | No Cover, No Minimum
Lil' Darlin' |
6. | Aug 28, 2009: | No Cover, No Minimum
Motor Minder |
Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2009-07-18
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
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 | |||||