Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga, Tapiwa Svosve // The Sport of Love LP

インプロ奏者Asma MaroofとPatrick Belaga、Tapiwa Svosveが、2024年7月にドイツ・ベルリン実験レーベルPANからリリースした共作レコードです。

アンビエント・ジャズ〜インプロ5曲を収録。

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12" black vinyl.

Tracklist:

1. G Major Kinda Love 03:49
2. Delicate Distance Between Bolders 05:35
3. Wicked City 02:36
4. The Stranger 15:25
5. Sport 03:20

Text excerpt by PAN:

"...The music emerged like smoke from the embers of soundtrack work they collaborated on in 2021. After finishing scores for Virgil Abloh's Louis Vuitton A/W 2021 collection film, Peculiar Contrast, Perfect Light and Bafic’s documentary short Sub Eleven Seconds, the trio were left with unanswered questions and excess energy. They considered the idea of creating an imaginary score to a romantic movie, using love to dictate its movement and narrative. So opening track 'G Major Kind of Love' is the intoxicating first blush, characterized by a drowned sax solo that sounds like a siren call from beneath the ocean. 'Delicate Distance Between Boulders' is quivering and hesitant, using gentle piano motifs against reverberating flute sounds and subtle, goosebump inducing electronic treatments.

Everything comes into sharp focus on the album's lengthy central piece 'The Stranger', that brings in additional instrumentation from harpist Ayha Simone and percussionist Mathieu Edward. The three friends saw this particular composition as a journey within itself, charting the anxiety, harmony and uncertainty of love. Shifting from gooey freeform jazz into gurgling noise and bleak ambient drone, it connects the dots between Dorothy Ashby, Arve Henriksen, Jon Hassell and Hildur Guðnadóttir while voyaging into parts unknown. It's a finale of sorts that wrestles with the complexity of the album's themes, returning to earlier refrains and prolonging their tension.

Fittingly, the record is tied together by artwork from the trio's friend Tosh Basco, and several tracks have already been used by Wu Tsang in a piece for SFMoMa. The Sport of Love is powered by physical connection in a digital world, and breathes a mysterious allure that's never been more urgent."

Artist : Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga, Tapiwa Svosve

Label : PAN

CAT No : PAN134