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  Leland Whitty,  Svalbard I Anyhow, 2022

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Anyhow, Leland Whitty

As one third of the genre-bending Canadian jazz band Badbadnotgood, multi-instrumentalist Leland Whitty showcases his compositional skill in a solo album exuding spaciousness and alluring introspection. If you’re already a fan of Badbadnotgood, you will find much to like on Anyhow. That Whitty is single-handedly calling the shots as a composer, arranger and performer here is presumably as close…

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Leland Whitty - Anyhow

Non è di certo passato in sordina l'esordio da solista del sassofonista dei BadBadNotGood, ma magari qualche scapestrato rocker se lo perso per strada, per cui eccoci qua...

Etichetta: Innovative LeisurePaese: CanadaAnno. 2022

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LELAND WHITTY / Anyhow

Leland Whitty（リーランド・ウィッティ）はトロントのインストゥルメンタルバンド／プロダクションチーム「BADBADNOTGOOD」のメンバーで、作曲家／サックス奏者／ギタリスト。本作は彼のソロ・アルバムです。本作のインスピレーションの源泉は、ライブラリー・レコードとDavid Axelrod、Gary McFarland、Arthur Verocai、Brian Bennettなどのアレンジャー達とのこと。確かに内省的でありながらも重層的で、しかも色彩感を感じさせる素晴らしいアレンジを聴かせてくれます。彼はギターの他に、シンセサイザー、木管楽器、弦楽器を自身で演奏していて、そのサウンドは滔々として、しかし緩やかに流れつつも無限に拡散していくようであり、また朧げな意識の中にある物語の様でもあり、シネマティックなイメージが横溢しています。非常にオリジナルな音像を構築しているように感じます。

#LELAND WHITTY

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#leland whitty #bandcamp #ambient #music #2022

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a l l i e - Violet Nights (Feat. Leland Whitty & Birthday Boy)

#a l l I e #music #Leland whitty #birthday boy #r&b

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MUSIC ASKS:

3 5 7 11 15 19 20 22 27 30 I’m nosy :)

YESSSSSSS thank you so much for this ask im gonna pop off

3: A song that reminds you of summertime

Sparkle Tape Break Up by Hiatus Kaiyote

i have no words or explanation to do this pick justice. it just oozes a sort of hazy summery feel to me. warm nights in someones backyard downtown type of thing.

5: A song that needs to be played LOUD

Only Shallow by My Bloody Valentine

this feels like an overtly basic pick but listen i haven't really listened to much my bloody valentine other than this album. i just think this riff is fuckin hype. it owns! it's maybe my favourite bit on the album!

7: A song to drive to

I Can't Drive by The Wesley Willis Fiasco

idk how to answer this question. here's this lol

11: A song that you never get tired of

Confessions ft. Leland Whitty by BADBADNOTGOOD

idk what to say really! listen to that sax. there's just somethin about it man

15: A song that is a cover by another artist

How High the Moon by Ella Fitzgerald

so like, idk how much we're willing to split hairs on what the definition of "cover" is and whether a rendition of a jazz standard falls under that description, but seriously, listen to her go. she pops off so hard on this. i've always liked this recording a lot

19: A song that makes you think about life

Venezuela Trains by Ravyn Lenae

okay, so like. MOST songs make me think about life to some degree. i mean. idk who doesn't listen to lyrics and feel things. but i understand that this question is asking for a specific Type of Thinking About Life. this has a vibe that gets me into that sort of feeling once in a while.

20: A song that has many meanings to you

Work This Time by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

i can't explain this one either. i might just be running out of steam? this resonates with me in a lot of different ways! i like it.

22: A song that moves you forward

Blast Damage Days by Jeff Rosenstock

i think about this song a lot.

27: A song that breaks your heart

Homebody by Nai Palm

yeah yeah i'm double dipping with nai palm. i love her stuff whatcha gonna do. i don't think i could put words to this pick. it does things to me. heartbreak might not be the right word. but it feels appropriate nonetheless

30: A song that reminds you of yourself

Psychopomp by Thank You Scientist

this is probably the song i shout about most often. it feels a little bit quintessentially me in that way. dunno! check out that fretless guitar solo. mad shit

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[luuurien]

Jonah Yano - Portrait of a Dog

(Jazz Pop, Neo-Soul, Singer/Songwriter)

Padded by BADBADNOTGOOD’s rich and warm jazz stylings, Portrait of a Dog captures multiple kinds of grief in one marvelous hour, Jonah Yano’s rush to immortalize family history and heal from heartbreak allowing for gentle folk meditations and heavier jazz pop jams to hold equal weight.

☆☆☆☆

Named after a painting his ex-partner made, Portrait of a Dog is in a constant rush to catalog as much of Jonah Yano’s memory as possible. It’s an album woven around two different kinds of grief that don’t always make their presence clear, heartbreak from both the lingering hurt of a past relationship and watching his grandparents’ memory fade the foundation of everything Yano creates, Portrait of a Dog’s rich neo-soul arrangements padding for the toughest topic matter he’s breached yet. Across its 12 songs and 50 minute runtime, Yano is able to expel all his emotions without letting the music drag behind him, Toronto jazz heavyweights BADBADNOTGOOD at the production helm to give Yano’s stories compositional strength and a slight dreaminess for his abstracted, cloudy songwriting to bounce off, Portrait of a Dog grounded by intense emotions Yano allows to drift about the air. For how harrowing his inspirations are, Yano and BBNG keep the compositions fluffy and warm, restrained when the focus is on Yano’s voice and blooming into the BBNG’s ecstatic soul jazz when all his thoughts have been laid out, bringing balance to the album Yano uses to keep himself stable while recounting the waves of emotion that came over him in the aftermath of visiting his grandparents and working through a breakup at once. Loss permeates all of Portrait of a Dog, but Yano is set on capturing those bruises at their most tender, unafraid to look his grandparents' health in the eye and hold onto his memories of them along the way, his reserved performances situating him near heartbreak without forcing him to sing of it outright. Portrait of a Dog shrouds its stinging core in heavenly neo-soul and inky songwriting, but every emotion is deeply felt through the beautiful arrangements and gentle pace. BADBADNOTGOOD’s production is Portrait of a Dog’s beating heart, but rather than the mystical chamber jazz of their 2021 release Talk Memory, they return closer to the sound of IV tracks like In Your Eyes and Cashmere and their dusty soul jazz, straightforward composition roadmaps where the verse-chorus-verse structure is accentuated with instrumentation that wanders around those boundaries. In the places where Yano’s voice drops away, the band are able to express spiraling grief in ways his words cannot: Leland Whitty’s rich tenor sax tone makes for a wonderfully melancholic lead voice in the ending section of Haven’t Haven’t, and closing track The Ordinary Is Ordinary Because It Ordinarily Repeats sounds like it could have been an outtake from Talk Memory as its stumbling percussion and glowing improvisational work from Whitty ends Portrait of a Dog without Yano’s voice at all, him and BBNG instead choosing to let the album drift away into tender soul jazz that doesn’t seek to act as a definitive end point for Yano’s story - he’s continuing to process the massive holes in his familial history and how much he’s able to preserve of it, and Portrait of a Dog is just one departure point into the next chapter of Yano’s life and artistry. It’s those imperfections and the album’s refusal to do everything in one go that the album uses as an emotional engine: early highlight Always presses on its 3/4 waltz feel with Yano’s sharp vocal delivery and regal string arrangements from Eliza Niemi for a song that’s both heavenly on the ears and tense on the heart; The Speed of Sound! cuts out much of the thick instrumentation to close out the A side of the album with trickling, abstracted neo-soul perfectly matched to the story Yano is telling. The music matches Yano's tangled emotions while simultaneously helping to bring clarity to him, and the resulting songs work perfectly to bring you close to his heart. Yano’s diaristic, often indirect songwriting fortifies the two separate losses he worked through while writing them, but his performances and specific lyrical moments still pierce right through the center of his soul. The title track is one of the few songs here solely focused on his breakup, the glowing painting that adorns the album cover one of the few memories he allows himself to keep of his last relationship  (“Well, there's your portrait of a dog / And the apartment is a mess / So why can't I remember you?”), Yano’s smoothly fingerpicked guitar and BBNG’s smooth backing instrumentation blooming a perfect slice of moody, introspective jazz pop. By knowing all the different dynamics he’s looking to parse through with Portrait of a Dog, Yano’s songwriting is able to sprawl without becoming emotionally distant: his cover of Vashti Bunyan’s Glow Worms is dark and brooding, Bunyan’s sentimental lyrics turned so slightly sour by the sorrow of the album’s core themes, the song clever situated between the heartbreak of watching his grandparents’ health decline he sings of in So Sweet (“We'll all sit down to eat / Remember where you sit this time / You're opposite of me”) and the Sea Oleena-assisted ethereality of Quietly, Entirely is absolutely brilliant, Oleena’s glistening ambient stylings melting beautifully into the jazzy inflections of BBNG’s arrangements and Yano’s gentle singing. Though Portrait of a Dog's lush soul compositions and Yano’s dreamy songwriting may paint the album as a plush, cloudy listen, it’s impossible to hear a song like Song About the Family House or Haven’t Haven’t and not feel Yano’s immediate desire to hold onto as much of his history as he can even as his family disappears right in front of him, his cryptic songwriting keeping his pain from flowing over and creating a measured but passionate listen. Portrait of a Dog's shaggy, extensive examination of all the pain Yano has recently crossed paths with is highly dynamic and valiant in its approach to heartbreak, delicate as it tries to both collect as many memories as it can without pushing Yano past his emotional limits. Through its rich soul jazz arrangements and fantastic group of performers, the album creates space for Yano to traverse the depths of his different relationships and what it’s like to both leave them and watch them start to disappear, Portrait of a Dog unafraid to mix multiple griefs into a singular thesis for Yano. As he archives his family history and attempts to recount romantic loss at the same time, Portrait of a Dog becomes an elegant and poignant exploration of how different kinds of pain subsume into each other; how part of healing from heartbreak is learning where each individual part of that sorrow lies and making an effort to understand and grow from all of them. Yano’s sentimental neo-soul couldn’t have been a more perfect place for him to do exactly that.

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Leland Whitty and Matthew Tavares - Visions of You is such an incredible offering that I can’t stop playing. 

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The AM: June 19, 2023

It’s The AM’s Sled Island Spotlight. Every year, you can count on choruses of “I don’t recognize any of the bands,” and every year you can count on finding brilliance when you get around to digging into the lineup. Tune in for an hour of music from Sled artists, along with two hours of your typical AM electronics, ambient jazz, psychedelic soul, and other sounds suited to rainy days and early mornings.

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(image: Sunset on the Baltic Sea – William Blair Bruce)

Hour One

Bloom Blue Lake • Sun Arcs

Everything Helps Julian Lage • The Layers

The surface and the light Colin Stetson • When we were that what wept for the sea

Learning to Say No Valiska • Wolf Moon EP

Homecoming Idlefon, featuring Kamyar Behbahani • Submarine

Home World 303 Khotin • Release Spirit

R.E.V.E.R.B. Gelbart • My favorite vacation

Solid States Cylindricon • Zettasecond

Persistence of Love Lo Five • Persistence of Love

Witchy Feel - Over the Counter Mix Maps • Counter Mixes

Hour Two

Changing Light The Ironsides • Changing Light

Dere Geliyor Altin Gün • Ask

Treasure Hypnotic Brass Ensemble • Single

Overhead Harrison • Birds, Bees, The Clouds & The Trees

Windows Leland Whitty • Anyhow

Honey Monster Rally • Beyond the Sea

Lava Flows Monster Rally • Beyond the Sea

Joyful Science Pearl & The Oysters • Coast 2 Coast

Ritual of Gods Whatitdo Archive Group • Palace Of A Thousand Sounds

Sour Times Portishead • Dummy

Agnus Dei Lalo Schifrin • Rock Requiem

Kotal Tynes • Tynes

Hour Three

Ghul wihtikow • ᒌᐸᕀ

Pronoia Michael Peter Olsen • Single

Space Jam Eve Parker Finley • Chrysalia

“Quotations” Water From Your Eyes • Structure

Tartamundo Helado Negro • Private Energy

God is a Reptile JayWood • Slingshot

Jreaming Ghost Woman • Ghost Woman

Gossamer Cola • Deep in View

Helena Sessa • Estrela Acesa

Lamento de un Galax Empanadas Ilegales • Creepy Mambo

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Testing animation in different enviros

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My WVUD playlist and stream, 7/1/2023

Zyggurat - Broken Circle Ash Walker - Running Away (feat. Yazz Ahmed & Laville) Outlanders - Land of Sea and Sun (feat. Marty Friedman) Motorpsycho - Hotel Daedalus Led Zeppelin - Kashmir The End - Wasted Blame Codex Serafini - Manzareck's Secret Mob - KPAW Hannah Macklin - The Essence Leland Whitty - Awake Gadadu - Ocean's Children Scrimshire - Flames (feat. Tamar Osborn & Faye Houston) Nicola Conte - Freedom & Progress (feat. Hermon Mehari, Paola Gladys & Zara McFarlane) Bokanté - Ta Voix Medline - Run for Cover Mari Natsuki - Tokyo Boogie Woogie: Junk Boogie The Oscillators - Packet O'Cheese Cookin' On 3 Burners - Wind Up İlhan Erşahin - Haliç (feat. Alp Ersönmez, İzzet Kızıl & Turgut Alp Bekoğlu) The Howling Eye - Space Dwellers, Episode 3

Listen to Permutations 6/3/2023 byPermutations on hearthis.at

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Bien, Bien, Nada Mal. Bad Bad Not Good se presentó en Niceto y no estuvo nada mal.

Los BadBad se presentaron en dos oportunidades en el marco del gran ciclo que empezó este año, Niceto Black promete ser por lo menos hasta ahora, lejos, de lo mejor que está pasando este año en Buenos Aires.

Con la desfachatez digna del calendario de cada uno de sus integrantes los BBNG se presentaron en dos Nicetos colmados, que hasta aquí no tiene nada de extraño, pero si se toma en cuenta que es una banda de millenials que hacen jazz fuzion-intrumental, ahí radica la clave (key) de esto.

Estos cuatro canadienses que apenas superan los veinte años se despacharon con dos shows a base de su mezcla de jazz, con momentos de hard, grandes pasos de post bop y hasta me animaría a decir que hubo solos dignos de free jazz, dejaron boquiabiertos a todos los asistentes.

Buscaron climas y los lograron, la gente pedía silencio por momentos.

Pasearon por sus tres producciones (exceptuando su trabajo con Ghostface Killah de Wu Tang Clan) con la limitación de la falta de vocalista, pero con todo el empuje y convicción de lo que hacen.

Los BBNG son el recambio, la nueva generación, la nueva ola y la vanguardia en la que están también metidos, Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, Karriem Riggins, Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper con una carrera más extensa, por nombrar a los más conocidos, pero todos estos nombres están dándole a la música popular su impronta de jazz, solo con repasar sus trabajos podemos dar cuanta de la importancia y el grado de influencia que está teniendo el jazz en la música contemporánea actual.

Si contamos sus colaboraciones con Kaytranada, Rihanna, Ghost, Kendrik Lamar, Danny Brown, los Odd Future, Tyler The Creator y Earl Sweetshirt, podemos hablar un poco de la apertura musical y del cambio que representan además de lo buscados que son.

La complejidad, el entendimiento, y sus eximias intervenciones en solos que sin sobresaltos fueron la clave y que por momentos las atmosferas de los solos de teclados ejecutados por Matthew Tavares fueron superlativos. Leland Whitty en saxo es la más reciente incorporación (2016) para dejar de ser un trio, sus intervenciones fueron tema de elogios y no se quedarian atrás como así tampoco los desbordes de Alexander Sowinski en la batería, lo más correcto, sin pasar casi al frente ni ser estridente en sus momentos de lucidez, fue el bajista Chester Hansen, que fue pura solvencia, cimentando la base de la banda donde los demás desplegaban alas.

Sonaron de manera ajustadísima y lograron cautivar a los más de mil asistentes que se acercaron por curiosidad o por conocimiento a ver otra fecha de este gran ciclo que ya nos regaló a Tony Allen y pronto no ofrecerá el reggae de Horace Andy una leyenda de la música jamaiquina además de Lee Fields un soulero de la más vieja escuela que se pueda encontrar hoy en día y todo el techno y house de Detroit con Theo Parrish.

No quiero dejar pasar la oportunidad de hacer dos referencias o análisis sobre la propuesta de los muchachines.

Su manera libre y sin atarse a la convenciones y rigidez del jazz nos hace recordar el revuelo que causo la irrupción de Weather Report con su jazz rock o jazz fusion en aquellos años 70, luego de haber vislumbrado el camino trazado por Miles Davies apenas unos años antes, justamente con dos de sus integrantes (Wayne Shorter - Joe Zawinul) que habían pasado por sus formaciones.

El otro avance del jazz fusionado con el tan de moda funk de aquellos años, fue por parte de otro ex colaborador de Davies de su eximio segundo quinteto, Herbie Hancok y su proyecto Headhunters llevaron mas allá esa búsqueda emprendida por el mandamás.

Esto fue lo que llevaron a cabo los Report, fueron bocanadas de aire fresco a comienzos y durante sus años de máximo esplendor que fue toda esa década, los dorados años 70.

WR con Joe Zawinul en teclados, Jaco Pastorius en bajo y la inestimable colaboración de el grandioso Wayne Shorter eran los que marcaban la diferencia en aquellos años un verdadero seleccionado, internacional, word music aplicado en la procedencia de  sus integrantes, Zawinul, austriaco, Pastorius con su ascendencia finlandesa, alemana, sueca e irlandesa, un afroamericano (Wayne Shorter) hasta llegó a haber un peruano, Alex Acuña, un brasilero, Airto Moreira , un norteamericano descendiente de árabes (Omar Hakim), un francés de origen antillano (Mino Cenelu) entre los más de 20 integrantes que tuvo en toda su existencia el grupo, esa, seguro fue una premisa.

El otro punto relevante para rastrear las raíces es de los BBNG fue la aparición de Medeski, Martin and Wood, el trio conmociona por el abordaje inesperado y con muchos mas recursos técnicos, habida cuenta de los desarrollos tecnológicos que se dieron en ese campo durante esa ventana de casi 20 años entre la presentación en sociedad del jazz rock o jazz fusion y la propuesta de MM&W.

Entre ellos y los BadbadNotGood hubo otras experiencias como el primer gran rescate del jazz hacia el rap y hip hop, el otro según la prensa norteamericana otra mutación, el ñu jazz, y las inestimables colaboraciones de JDilla, Guru, Madlib que metieron sus dedos y aportaron su cuota.

Escenas más cercanas en el tiempo y en cuanto a sonido también.

Dicho todo esto y hecha las salvedades, a dormir tranquilo con el corazón contento de haber visto a la nueva gran cosa que está pasando en la música y estremeció a Niceto con la nueva avanzada del jazz.