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Artist - Robin Holcomb
Album - John Brown's Body
Label - Tzadik
Street Date - 06/27/2006
Release Date - 09/17/2006
Genre - Folk
# NAME TIME
01. Chimera 02:13
02. From Below 03:41
03. One 13:22
04. Photography 03:50
05. Saam #1 04:46
06. John Brown's Body 04:51
07. Sorrow 02:43
08. Saam #2 06:46
09. Maybe You One Day 01:25
10. Pretty Ozu 02:43
46:20 min
62,1 Mb
Pianist, composer and singer Robin Holcomb records all too
infrequently. She's issued just six albums since 1989, and
John Brown's Body -- her label debut for Tzadik -- is her
first in four years. (She did issue a split record with her
husband Wayne Horvitz on Songlines a couple of years ago.)
And like her other records, this one is as different from
them as they are from one another. This one is a smorgasbord
of Holcomb, showcasing many of her varied talents. "Chimera"
is a halting piano piece with a melody that is both songlike
and fragmented. "From Below" is a duet with violinist Eyvind
Kang that holds both tension and drama close to the feast,
unfurling them both in a beautiful melodic statement. The big
surprise here is "One," a string quartet performed by the
women of the Koehne Quartet, where lyric statements, winding
modes and counterpoint all balance harmoniously and
luxuriantly. As has been her wont recently, some of her songs
appear here as well. The first of these, "Photography,"
presents an update on a Stephen Foster theme that is
extrapolated upon and stripped of its lush body in favor of a
more skeletal approach as her voice becomes the axis on which
the tune turns. There are also two others: one is the title
track, adapted from Julia Ward Howe's classic poem, where
Holcomb is accompanied by trumpeter Dave Carter and
trombonist Steve Moore. Holcomb's reverence for the original
text is indisputable, but in the grain of her low warbling
delivery her voice makes the piece thoroughly contemporary as
it looks out over history. The final song here, "Maybe One
Day," is a wisp, not even two minutes in length; it is a
serious lover's plaint. The most beautiful tune, however, is
the final one, "Pretty Ozu," composed as part of a score to
accompany Yasujiro Ozu's film, That Night's Wife. Accompanied
by Kang and Moore -- this time on glockenspiel -- its nursery
rhyme-like theme is repeated and extrapolated upon to create
something both Far Eastern and near Western. This sampling of
Holcomb will delight that eclectic lot who are her fans, but
would also serve as a lovely introduction to her many gifts
for new listeners. Highly recommended.
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