Artist: Gordon Grdina Quartet
Album: Gordon Grdina: Inroads
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2018
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 57:40
Total Tracks: 9
Total Size: 1015 MB

Tracklist:

01. Gordon Grdina Quartet – Giggles (04:03)
02. Gordon Grdina Quartet – Not Sure (11:38)
03. Gordon Grdina Quartet – P.B.S. (08:10)
04. Gordon Grdina Quartet – Semantics (02:30)
05. Gordon Grdina Quartet – Fragments (09:35)
06. Gordon Grdina Quartet – Casper (05:45)
07. Gordon Grdina Quartet – Kite Flight (01:57)
08. Gordon Grdina Quartet – Apocalympics (09:38)
09. Gordon Grdina Quartet – Giggles II (04:23)

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The Gordon Grdina Quartet creates their unique jazz musiciansship by combining both classical and avant garde jazz techniques throughout this album. Influenced by a vast range of classical music composers and even rock and roll artists, this ensemble showacses their adventurous spirirt and willingness to experiment with new musical styles in this jazz album.Vancouver guitar/oud player Gordon Grdina continues to passionately explore the depths of jazz improvisation, cross-cultural fusions and the fun that comes with cutting loose (Stuart Derdeyn). His new and wildly eclectic NY avant jazz project combines intricate counterpoint with the ebb and flow of dynamic yet focused improvisation. The band consists of Oscar Noriega (alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet), Russ Lossing (piano/Rhodes), and Satoshi Takeishi (drums). Grdina takes inspiration from the complexity of Bartok, the freedom of Ornette Coleman, the energy and logical construction of ideas in Soundgarden, and the delicacy of Webern. He also cites Tim Berne as a major influence (Noriega is a member of Berne’s ECM band Snakeoil). Grdina’s debut recording, Think Like the Waves (Songlines, 2006) was a trio with his mentor Gary Peacock and Paul Motian, and there is something of that group’s deep improvised jazz roots at work here, along with the compositional, classical music bent of his East Van Strings project (The Breathing of Statues, Songlines, 2009). It’s also a reaction to his rock playing in recent years in Dan Mangan’s band and his own instrumental duo Peregrine Falls. Says Grdina, I felt a strong inner urge to write music that was more unexpected, that didn’t repeat itself so much and was more challenging than what I had been playing. Forms can sometimes feel like you’re being strangled and talked down to. I wanted the music to continually move, feeling free but clearly directed.