Artist: Blaer
Album: Yellow
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2020
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 48 kHz
Duration: 56:18
Total Tracks: 7
Total Size: 614 MB

Tracklist:

01. Blaer – Yellow (05:51)
02. Blaer – The Unknown (07:18)
03. Blaer – Years (11:16)
04. Blaer – Kosmo (10:05)
05. Blaer – Epilog (04:57)
06. Blaer – All We Need (05:15)
07. Blaer – Arktis (11:33)

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This is already the third album of the working band BLAER, founded in 2012 by the composer and pianist Maja Nydegger. YELLOW is the result of a longstanding and diligent collaboration. The band concept sets on a balanced group sound and a calm, focussed flow of music.By this genuine attitude of a differenciated common ground, this album develops an urgency and power which in all coolness radiates warmth.

Similarly to Schuberts music, where a minor tonality often contains a confident vibe, the seemingly simple, quiet and melancholical pieces of BLAER create a positive atmosphere. Surprising spins and grooves are subtly invigorating this atmosphere, yet always serving the overall dramaturgy. The leader Maja Nydegger thus offers her band a community-oriented, but crystal clear concept in which her musical partners can all serve the whole while at the same time shining through individually with their high competence on their instruments.

As a result, the lines of the reeds players (Nils Fischer and Claudio von Arx), together with the differenciated drum play of Philippe Ducommun, the often also ambient-like base of Simon Iten and the repetitive piano patterns and chord progressions of the composer herself create vast soundscapes and spherical hymns.