Nicole McCabe // A Song To Sing LP

アメリカ・LAのサックス奏者Nicole McCabeが、2025年6月にLAのコンテンポラリー・ジャズレーベルColorfield Recordsからリリースしたレコードです。

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12" black vinyl.

Tracklist:

1. Running Backwards 02:24
2. A Change In Scenery 03:47
3. San Benito 01:24
4. Prism Prison 04:35
5. Mystic Mountain 03:13
6. Inner Critic 02:37
7. Balloon Race 03:46
8. A Song To Sing 03:42
9. Driving Home Alone At Night 04:49
10. Passages 03:24
11. Foraging For Truth 03:25

Colorfield Recordings:

"The new solo album A Song to Sing from saxophonist Nicole McCabe is only so much a saxophone album. In search of fresh melodic pathways, McCabe built most of this warped electronic jazz around on-the-spot explorations on synthesizer, piano, percussion, and clarinet.
Her improvisations in producer Pete Min’s Los Angeles studio, Lucy’s Meat Market, became raw material for processing, looping, and layering grooves, often before McCabe ever touched her alto. For the talented young composer, it was an experiment in process, an “extension of myself
into a different world.
”A rising force in the Los Angeles scene, McCabe’s world is ever-growing. This, her full-length debut on Colorfield Records, follows What is My Porpoise?, the latest frenzy from Dolphin Hyperspace, her beat-based duo with bassist Logan Kane, and the Jeff Parker-produced Mosaic, her fourth album as a bandleader. She entered Colorfield’s orbit with a spot on Amy
Aileen Wood’s The Heartening and recently featured on Spencer Zahn’s Statues Live. Recent collaborators include Dave Harrington, David Binney, Salami Rose Joe Louis, Louis Cole, Justin Brown, and Paul Cornish, the latter two guesting here alongside Kane.
A Song to Sing’s recording process, prizing discomfort and spontaneity, produced a vulnerable simplicity in form. McCabe’s clever false starts and endings surface, but she deconstructs her melodic instincts. Ballads like “Driving Alone At Night” and “Foraging For Truth” approach the hypnotic austerity of ‘90s Jan Garbarek, while the rhythmic textures driving “Change in Scenery” and lead single “Balloon Race” scratch Jon Hassell’s minimalism. “San Benito” flips a woodwind quartet arrangement into something like McCabe’s solo pedal performances; doubled phrases start and end on different instruments in surreal swirls.
The title track, an elegant crescendo, pays nominal homage to Chick Corea’s Now He Sings, Now He Sobs, but also to the process. In moments of studio indecision, Min prompted McCabe to simply start singing, to find melodies from a place where, she says, “I didn’t have any of those muscle memories to fall back on. ”In testing her voice, she learned to find comfort in space, and rediscovered herself. The results are personal, tender, and assured, with a funky balance. The word “new” is implied in the title; this music is a new song, for McCabe and the city."

Artist : Nicole McCabe

Label : Colorfield Records