by Brad Mehldau
Release Date: 17 June 2022
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Nonesuch
£24.99
Brad Mehldau Jacob’s Ladder Limited Vinyl 2LP Set
Overview:
Nonesuch Records releases Brad Mehldau’s Jacob’s Ladder on 2 x 140g black vinyl on June 17th . The album features new music that reflects on scripture and the search for God through music inspired by the prog rock Mehldau loved as a young adolescent, which was his gateway to the fusion that eventually led to his discovery of jazz. Featured musicians on the album include Mehldau’s label mates Chris Thile and Cécile McLorin Salvant, as well as Mark Guiliana, Becca Stevens, Joel Frahm, and others. The album’s first single, ‘maybe as his skies are wide’, builds off an interpolation of one portion of Rush’s classic ‘Tom Sawyer’.
“The prog from Rush, Gentle Giant, and Emerson, Lake and Palmer here only hints at the genre’s conceptual, compositional and emotional range. These bands and others have continued to influence newer groups that bring prog impulses into the arena of hard rock and screaming math metal, like Periphery, whose music is included here, and also inspired the screaming vocals on ‘Herr und Knecht.’ I tried to avoid a direct tribute approach to all the songs, and opted in some cases for excerpts, or reworking of themes.”
Featured Tracks:
Side: 1
1 maybe as his skies are wide
2 Herr und Knecht
3 (Entr'acte) Glam Perfume
Side: 2
1 Cogs in Cogs, Pt. I: Dance
2 Cogs in Cogs, Pt. II: Song (feat. Becca Stevens)
3 Cogs in Cogs, Pt. III: Double Fugue
4 Tom Sawyer (feat. Chris Thile)
Side: 3
1 Vou correndo te encontrar / Racecar
2 Jacob's Ladder, Pt I: Liturgy
3 Jacob's Ladder, Pt II: Song
Side: 4
1 Jacob's Ladder, Pt III: Ladder
2 Heaven: I All Once - II Life Seeker - III Wurm - IV Epilogue: It Was a Dream but I Carry It Still (feat Cecile McLorin Salvant)
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