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Ambient Jazz アンビエントジャズ

a m b i e n c e

Space 1.8

Space 1

Florence

At the side of the house (feat. Bram Gielen)

Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga, Tapiwa Svosve - The Sport of Love 
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 134
Release Date: 26 May 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/TheSportofLove

In the late 18th century, reason and rational thought was idealized and viewed as the most progressive way to comprehend a rapidly industrializing society. The snap reaction was Romanticism, an artistic movement that prioritized emotion, imagination and intuition - things that can't be quantified but have sustained culture for millennia. Now in a digitally accelerated age where our lives are not only measured but distributed in binary, a similarly hot-blooded creative response is long overdue. On The Sport of Love, seasoned collaborators Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga and Tapiwa Svosve consider the language, competition and contradiction of modern romance: its yearning, incomprehensible vastness and the inevitable darkness and fleeting fragility. For the trio, love is the emotion that propels all of us whether we acknowledge it or not, and its expression can be realized in many forms.

“I know my musical collaborators on an arguably more intimate level than many of the friendships that are exclusively born of word-based language,” says Belaga. The cellist and composer has been developing a relationship with Los Angeles-based DJ-producer Maroof (also known as Asmara) and Svosve, a Swiss saxophonist and electro-acoustic musician, for many years; the three are all part of Moved by the Motion, a "roving band" that also includes artist and filmmaker Wu Tsang, performer and dancer Tosh Basco and dancer Josh Johnson. As a three-piece ensemble, their interaction is fluid and physical, and with Svosve and Belaga on sax, flute, piano and cello, Maroof sculpts the sounds into textured, effervescent fantasies. “A lot of the songs were improvised and then I made sense of the madness," she explains.

The music emerged like smoke from the embers of soundtrack work they collaborated on in 2021. After finishing scores for Virgil Abloh's Louis Vuitton A/W 2021 collection film, Peculiar Contrast, Perfect Light and Bafic’s documentary short Sub Eleven Seconds, the trio were left with unanswered questions and excess energy. They considered the idea of creating an imaginary score to a romantic movie, using love to dictate its movement and narrative. So opening track 'G Major Kind of Love' is the intoxicating first blush, characterized by a drowned sax solo that sounds like a siren call from beneath the ocean. 'Delicate Distance Between Boulders' is quivering and hesitant, using gentle piano motifs against reverberating flute sounds and subtle, goosebump inducing electronic treatments.

Everything comes into sharp focus on the album's lengthy central piece 'The Stranger', that brings in additional instrumentation from harpist Ayha Simone and percussionist Mathieu Edward. The three friends saw this particular composition as a journey within itself, charting the anxiety, harmony and uncertainty of love. Shifting from gooey freeform jazz into gurgling noise and bleak ambient drone, it connects the dots between Dorothy Ashby, Arve Henriksen, Jon Hassell and Hildur Guðnadóttir while voyaging into parts unknown. It's a finale of sorts that wrestles with the complexity of the album's themes, returning to earlier refrains and prolonging their tension.

Fittingly, the record is tied together by artwork from the trio's friend Tosh Basco, and several tracks have already been used by Wu Tsang in a piece for SFMoMa. The Sport of Love is powered by physical connection in a digital world, and breathes a mysterious allure that's never been more urgent.

The Sport of Love 

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#2230: Jan. 22, 2019: When she got there
Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this  makes you feel peaceful.. : )　

======== my creation note today ========

Song creation is right brain processing. In other words, logic and words are zero. But the sentence is left brain processing. The image is zero. You don't need the left brain to just create a song and show it to the world. But, well, bookstore nationwide has a reputation that the novel "Sheep and Steel Forest" is so wonderful that the sound description is so good, so I bought a new book and read it. Story. And that's why the beauty of the sound is spoken. But when I thought about it, I realized that it was only a small expression of the timbre in the music I heard. And there is music that can be heard by a listener only when someone plays a song created by someone who creates a tuned piano. As for the expression of the music created, it is usually a composer's work that died long ago, so it is not usually heard. There are many ways to listen to the song that was performed, but there is no telling how it was created, why it was created, or who wanted to convey it to anyone. If you listen to a piano song on a CD, for example, and make it all 100, if all the elements are above a reasonable level, the tuning of the piano is about 2, and the type of piano Is about 5 and the quality of the piano recording is about 10 and the piano performance is about 10 and the piano song itself is about 70? If you think about it, in my case, the tuning, piano type and recording are already digitized perfect scores, so the 80% part of the performance + song is the center. And if there is silence, everything is right brain processing. But if you think about it, there isn't much that I talked about in this song. If there is a diary of Debussy, Faure or Satie, I would like to read it. In my case, if I am lucky, I will continue to write songs for another 2306 days. Is it the influence that you learned about Zeami's Kaze-Kaden? Is it the influence of Okakura Tenshin's tea book or the influence of Toru Takemitsu's Vision in Time? I wanted to make a little effort in the left brain. I want to hear why the composer created this song. Mahler's Adajiet is something I really want to know. I think it was because I fell in love with a certain person. .

Regards,
Hitoshi Yasui, chair house, roppongi, tokyo, japan

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Spotify Playlist 11 hours streaming( would change your mind and life..)

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