{"product_id":"julien-lourau-criancas-the-music-of-wayne-shorter-cd","title":"Julien Lourau - Crianças - The Music Of Wayne Shorter [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: KOS22CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 3770014204394 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e01 Dec\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Jazz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A piece of music never truly comes to An end. Revisiting a theme illustrates this idea that life goes on.” These are the words of Wayne Shorter, uttered in 2018 upon the release of Emanon, his final opus. On this record, the octogenarian uses dusky hues to shade in the passions of his youth - drawing and science-fiction, as well as the causes he has defended all his life - the fight against ecological upheaval and structural racism. This sentiment did not fail to resonate with Julien Lourau, who has reached a stage in life where he has begun to look back over certain pages written by the man he has always considered one of the masters of his trade. Five years later, this Parisian native has also chosen to revisit his glory days, offering reworked versions of specific tracks composed by his titular elder throughout the 80s. “When I play this music, I find myself back in my teenage bedroom. These are my standards, and they remind me of autumn in Rambouillet.” At that time, after practising his scales, Julien would also play Dungeons \u0026amp; dragons, and immerse himself in SF as well as heroic fantasy - epic influences which are not without a certain connection to the dreamworlds Shorter conjured up, as another fan of landscapes beyond the grasp of reality.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This album features four themes taken from Atlantis, which came out in 1985, and two from Joy Ryder, released three years later. To these, he has added a composition penned at around the same time for Sportin’ Life, the penultimate LP by Weather Report. This is rounded off by a tune taken\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e from Native Dancer, the record which, ten years earlier, in 1975, brought together this saxophonist who learnt his trade alongside Art Blakey, before joining Miles’ second quintet, and Brazilian Milton Nascimento.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Between Native Dancer and Atlantis, Shorter did not release anything under his own name, but he took the time and care to really perfect his writing. Upon his return, he injected a very Brazilian form of subtlety into his compositions, especially rhythmically. And from a harmonic point of view, these themes are extremely sophisticated, and reveal truly singular colours. In fact, he decided to display the score as if it constituted the liner notes of Atlantis.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Julien Lourau is a fan of every Wayne Shorter era, from his Blue Note days, where Mr Gone defined the bases of a truly unique repertoire, all the way to his final quartet - a reference like no other. He decided to focus on this “highly electric” period, which is not necessarily Shorter’s best known, nor his most widely appreciated - despite being a unanimous reference, Shorter has nonetheless never had a direct descendent. In Lourau’s line of sight there lies a desire to focus on typically South American tonic accents which characterise this repertoire, twinned with the ambition to switch up their actual sound “by attempting to open up onto a production highly influenced by eighties fusion\". However, he admits that modifying the structures of these most unique of worlds constituted a fresh challenge. “There’s this labyrinthine harmonic system where you’ve no idea how it holds together, but where it’s actually impossible to touch the slightest element without the whole edifice wavering. It is in fact a very difficult thing to achieve!”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTRACKLISTING \u003cbr\u003e A1. Crianças\u003cbr\u003e A2. Ponta De Areia\u003cbr\u003e A3. The Three Marias\u003cbr\u003e B1. Who Goes There\u003cbr\u003e B2. Pearl On The Half Shell\u003cbr\u003e B3. Someplace Called ‘Where’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Komos","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42733591756956,"sku":"KOS22CD","price":15.82,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/files\/unnamed_2_ab07d3c7-a4ec-4fed-8f1c-73d1200f8ec1.jpg?v=1697197748","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/julien-lourau-criancas-the-music-of-wayne-shorter-cd","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}