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David Lord // Forest Standards Vol.

David Lord // Forest Standards Vol.

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This is a record released by guitarist David Lord from Montreal, Canada in April 2023 on Astral Spirits, a jazz label in Texas, USA.

Contains 10 songs from spiritual jazz to lounge jazz.

*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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1st edition of 500. Black 12" vinyl.

Ask us for digital files.

Text by  Anthony Dean-Harris (San Antonio, Texas) via Astral Spirits:

" What is a standard to a forest? What makes that different to what's a standard, in that jazz classic compositional sense, to a desert? To a city? in a forest, like any other environment, is the search for balance. Nature seeks an equilibrium and, given enough time, it finds it.

For three albums, David Lord has been exploring this idea, seeking out some sense of the ethereal, with drummer Chad Taylor and producer Chris Schlarb, his only constant companions. his prior work under the nom de plume Francis Moss), he's finding new ways to examine the interconnectivity of trees, of fungi, of ecosystems brought together in harmony and just what that would be for people to make that kind of harmony for ourselves. third volume is merely the latest iteration of that idea, the results of the latest planted seeds. The ensemble is a bit larger, and so are the ideas, but that's also how growth tends to work in the forest if things are going right.

When Taylor opens up on the kit midway through “Trees Yield Tomte” and all of Lord's and Nathan Hubbard's arpeggios start darting around corners, it's a fun break that doesn't feel at all like it's coming from the Christmas goblin of the song's namesake. Christine Tavolacci's flute on “In Woods I Know” add that sense of mystery like a concerning wind two the trees on a hike that could make an adventurous turn. How much of David Tranchina's bass acts the propulsive force of “Infant Elm” as much as Chad Taylor's drumming? Is Lord's glockenspiel this album series' paprika?

One song after the other, just like the two albums before this one, seem to come from the earth itself and made to fill one's ears while taking expeditions into nature's unknown. What makes these albums special is that David Lord knows the atmosphere he's making with this music and in each iteration of his chosen musicians to pull off these ideas, he's chosen just the right people at just the right time to go with the flow. He's made balance as nature does, as forests do. rustling branches, like birds swooping overhead, these are standards to a forest, and hopefully they are to us mere humans as well."

Artist: David Lord

Label: Astral Spirits

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This is a record released by guitarist David Lord from Montreal, Canada in April 2023 on Astral Spirits, a jazz label in Texas, USA.

Contains 10 songs from spiritual jazz to lounge jazz.

*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.

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

1st edition of 500. Black 12" vinyl.

Ask us for digital files.

Text by  Anthony Dean-Harris (San Antonio, Texas) via Astral Spirits:

" What is a standard to a forest? What makes that different to what's a standard, in that jazz classic compositional sense, to a desert? To a city? in a forest, like any other environment, is the search for balance. Nature seeks an equilibrium and, given enough time, it finds it.

For three albums, David Lord has been exploring this idea, seeking out some sense of the ethereal, with drummer Chad Taylor and producer Chris Schlarb, his only constant companions. his prior work under the nom de plume Francis Moss), he's finding new ways to examine the interconnectivity of trees, of fungi, of ecosystems brought together in harmony and just what that would be for people to make that kind of harmony for ourselves. third volume is merely the latest iteration of that idea, the results of the latest planted seeds. The ensemble is a bit larger, and so are the ideas, but that's also how growth tends to work in the forest if things are going right.

When Taylor opens up on the kit midway through “Trees Yield Tomte” and all of Lord's and Nathan Hubbard's arpeggios start darting around corners, it's a fun break that doesn't feel at all like it's coming from the Christmas goblin of the song's namesake. Christine Tavolacci's flute on “In Woods I Know” add that sense of mystery like a concerning wind two the trees on a hike that could make an adventurous turn. How much of David Tranchina's bass acts the propulsive force of “Infant Elm” as much as Chad Taylor's drumming? Is Lord's glockenspiel this album series' paprika?

One song after the other, just like the two albums before this one, seem to come from the earth itself and made to fill one's ears while taking expeditions into nature's unknown. What makes these albums special is that David Lord knows the atmosphere he's making with this music and in each iteration of his chosen musicians to pull off these ideas, he's chosen just the right people at just the right time to go with the flow. He's made balance as nature does, as forests do. rustling branches, like birds swooping overhead, these are standards to a forest, and hopefully they are to us mere humans as well."

Artist: David Lord

Label: Astral Spirits