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Anthony Davis / Kyle Motl / Kjell Nordeson // Vertical Motion LP

Anthony Davis / Kyle Motl / Kjell Nordeson // Vertical Motion LP

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This is a co-written record by Anthony Davis, Kyle Motl, and Kjell Nordesonilva, a jazz writer from San Diego, USA, released on the Texas jazz label Astral Spirits in September 2023.

Contains 5 tight session songs with piano, bass, and drums.

*If you would like a digital sound source, please feel free to contact us.

Labels and other worksplease use this form. ///Click here to see more Astral Spirits releases available at Tobira.

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Includes DL code. 12" black vinyl. Edition of 500. 

tracklist:

  1. Vertical Motion 08:04
  2. Fictions I 13:20
  3. Lady of the Mirrors 06:58
  4. Labyrinths 13:10
  5. Fictions II 09:01

Artist statement by  Kyle Motl :

"In 2018, I had the good fortune to organize a session with two absolute fortune heroes of music: Anthony Davis, and Kjell Nordeson. I'd been playing with Kjell in various groups for a few years, and had been studying with Anthony at UC San Diego; the three of us had played as a trio a handful of times.

For the session, we played some of Anthony's older works, including some which referenced The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. With that idea of ​​literature and music in mind, I brought some minimal pieces taking literary inspiration, Vertical Motion - referencing the story by Can Xue, and Labyrinths - in obvious reference to Jorge Luis Borges. We also improvised freely, some of those improvisations became the Fictions tracks.

Lady of the Mirrors is a classic Anthony Davis piece, most prominently appearing on the solo piano record of the same name. Here, it allows different forms of interaction between voices and space. Vertical Motion and Labyrinths were both written with Anthony and Kjell's improvisational prowess and ability to develop material in mind: pretty bare sequences and themes that allow everyone to take an idea and really stretch.

The recording sat on the shelf half-forgotten for some years before I went through and picked the tracks that showed the improvisational interplay of the group in its best light.

It was truly an honor to make the music on this record."

Artist: Anthony Davis / Kyle Motl / Kjell Nordeson

Label: Astral Spirits

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This is a co-written record by Anthony Davis, Kyle Motl, and Kjell Nordesonilva, a jazz writer from San Diego, USA, released on the Texas jazz label Astral Spirits in September 2023.

Contains 5 tight session songs with piano, bass, and drums.

*If you would like a digital sound source, please feel free to contact us.

Labels and other worksplease use this form. ///Click here to see more Astral Spirits releases available at Tobira.

---------------------------------

Includes DL code. 12" black vinyl. Edition of 500. 

tracklist:

  1. Vertical Motion 08:04
  2. Fictions I 13:20
  3. Lady of the Mirrors 06:58
  4. Labyrinths 13:10
  5. Fictions II 09:01

Artist statement by  Kyle Motl :

"In 2018, I had the good fortune to organize a session with two absolute fortune heroes of music: Anthony Davis, and Kjell Nordeson. I'd been playing with Kjell in various groups for a few years, and had been studying with Anthony at UC San Diego; the three of us had played as a trio a handful of times.

For the session, we played some of Anthony's older works, including some which referenced The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. With that idea of ​​literature and music in mind, I brought some minimal pieces taking literary inspiration, Vertical Motion - referencing the story by Can Xue, and Labyrinths - in obvious reference to Jorge Luis Borges. We also improvised freely, some of those improvisations became the Fictions tracks.

Lady of the Mirrors is a classic Anthony Davis piece, most prominently appearing on the solo piano record of the same name. Here, it allows different forms of interaction between voices and space. Vertical Motion and Labyrinths were both written with Anthony and Kjell's improvisational prowess and ability to develop material in mind: pretty bare sequences and themes that allow everyone to take an idea and really stretch.

The recording sat on the shelf half-forgotten for some years before I went through and picked the tracks that showed the improvisational interplay of the group in its best light.

It was truly an honor to make the music on this record."

Artist: Anthony Davis / Kyle Motl / Kjell Nordeson

Label: Astral Spirits