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{"id":9120268189946,"title":"أحمد [Ahmed] \/\/ Giant Beauty 5xCD BOX","handle":"ahmed-giant-beauty-5xcd-box","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e※3\/13発送開始します\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eイギリス・ロンドンのジャズバンドأحمد [Ahmed](Ahmed Abdul-Malik (1927-1993)の音楽をリアルタイムで再構築するためのユニット)が、2026年2月にスウェーデンの実験レーベル\u003cspan\u003efönstret\u003c\/span\u003eからリリースした再発5枚組CD BOXです。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eフリージャズ5曲を収録。96ページのブックレット付属。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4065537389\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/fstrt\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e \/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/fstrt\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more fönstret releases available at Tobira.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e--------------------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 x CD in double cardstock sleeves + sturdy outer slipcase. \u003cbr\u003eIncludes \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e96-page perfect bound book including an interview between Seymour Wright and John Chantler \u0026amp; additional texts by silvia tarozzi, magnus granberg, nate wooley, valerie mol, pär thörn, and lars grip + drawings by guillaume delcourt and aliocha delcourt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3rd edition of 1000 copies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1. Nights on Saturn 48:04\u003cbr\u003e2. Oud Blues 46:32\u003cbr\u003e3. African Bossa Nova 49:40\u003cbr\u003e4. Rooh (The Soul) 46:42\u003cbr\u003e5. El Haris (Anxious) 44:14\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText excerpt from the label:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eأحمد [Ahmed] is the quartet of Pat Thomas (piano), Joel Grip (double bass), Antonin Gerbal (drums) and Seymour Wright (alto saxophone). Together, the group re-arrange and re-imagine in real time the music of composer, bassist and oud player Ahmed Abdul-Malik (1927-1993).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eListening, learning.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the summer of 2022 they played five nights in a row at the fifth edition festival for other music. Fylkingen sweltering under a rare Stockholm heatwave. A different tune each night.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNights on Saturn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eOud Blues\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfrican Bossa Nova\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eRooh (The Soul)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eEl Haris (Anxious)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFive discs in a big box. Giant Beauty. Wrapped in excavated photographic detail from Stockholm’s legendary Golden Circle club.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Every night the quartet brings a new song, takes it apart\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e, puts it back together again, follows the music on unknown paths, sometimes back, sometimes not, but always remains in motion, flowing like a river in flood.” — Silvia Tarozzi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Ahmed] have played some of the tunes on Giant Beauty multiple times before, and revisit them here, ‘versioning’. Antonin Gerbal kicks things straight into high gear with the propulsive snap of Nights on Saturn’s opening beat (a then recent, now out of print LP on Astral Spirits) and they close out on the fifth day with El Haris (Anxious), the tune they played and recorded at their first public performance in a rural Swedish barn for Joel Grip’s Hagen-fest in 2016 (and later released as the now out of print LP New Jazz Imagination on Umlaut).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe second night they played Oud Blues. A tune they’d done just the one time before but under radically different circumstances — a heaving, 600 strong dancefloor for Glasgow’s spirited Counterflows festival. That recording is also coming out now on a double LP via Astral Spirits as Wood Blues — but here they trade the raucous, ragged energy there for something more chiselled and focussed. Traces linger (a perfume) of the spare concentration in Éliane Radigue and Magnus Granberg’s music heard earlier that night.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe also hear two new tunes that appear on record for the first time — the vibrant swing of African Bossa Nova giving way to the zoned in drone of Rooh (The Soul) the following night. Rooh opens with Joel Grip’s bass channelling cellist Abdul Wadud who died the same week and the performance is dedicated to him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo discussion.\u003cbr\u003eNo plan.\u003cbr\u003eNo solos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe end goal for [Ahmed] is an open, ongoing learning. An ongoing excavation of the past and re-imagination of a future music. It’s jazz but also not (only) jazz, forged through a deep commitment to a variety of musical methods and an appreciation of how the context of the music’s making informs, shapes and becomes what it is. It always comes back to time and space. The five-night residency as idea, history and lived reality provides further cause for investigation, food for thought and prompts for action...\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : أحمد [Ahmed]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003efönstret\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ecat no : \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003efönstret 9—13\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelease date : 8th April 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2026-03-05T14:21:39+09:00","created_at":"2026-03-05T09:59:30+09:00","vendor":"Tobira Records","type":"","tags":["cd","fönstret","jazz","new"],"price":974400,"price_min":974400,"price_max":974400,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":48418356855034,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":null,"requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"أحمد [Ahmed] \/\/ Giant Beauty 5xCD BOX","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":974400,"weight":530,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/gi1_9dd0bec7-73b6-48a9-b5ad-ca28b0095fd5.jpg?v=1772672089","\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/gi2.jpg?v=1772672089","\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/gi3.jpg?v=1772672089"],"featured_image":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/gi1_9dd0bec7-73b6-48a9-b5ad-ca28b0095fd5.jpg?v=1772672089","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":38582270165242,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"width":700,"src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/gi1_9dd0bec7-73b6-48a9-b5ad-ca28b0095fd5.jpg?v=1772672089"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/gi1_9dd0bec7-73b6-48a9-b5ad-ca28b0095fd5.jpg?v=1772672089","width":700},{"alt":null,"id":38582270198010,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.845,"height":1200,"width":1014,"src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/gi2.jpg?v=1772672089"},"aspect_ratio":0.845,"height":1200,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/gi2.jpg?v=1772672089","width":1014},{"alt":null,"id":38582270230778,"position":3,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.593,"height":1200,"width":712,"src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/gi3.jpg?v=1772672089"},"aspect_ratio":0.593,"height":1200,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/gi3.jpg?v=1772672089","width":712}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e※3\/13発送開始します\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eイギリス・ロンドンのジャズバンドأحمد [Ahmed](Ahmed Abdul-Malik (1927-1993)の音楽をリアルタイムで再構築するためのユニット)が、2026年2月にスウェーデンの実験レーベル\u003cspan\u003efönstret\u003c\/span\u003eからリリースした再発5枚組CD BOXです。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eフリージャズ5曲を収録。96ページのブックレット付属。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4065537389\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/fstrt\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e \/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/fstrt\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more fönstret releases available at Tobira.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e--------------------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 x CD in double cardstock sleeves + sturdy outer slipcase. \u003cbr\u003eIncludes \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e96-page perfect bound book including an interview between Seymour Wright and John Chantler \u0026amp; additional texts by silvia tarozzi, magnus granberg, nate wooley, valerie mol, pär thörn, and lars grip + drawings by guillaume delcourt and aliocha delcourt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3rd edition of 1000 copies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1. Nights on Saturn 48:04\u003cbr\u003e2. Oud Blues 46:32\u003cbr\u003e3. African Bossa Nova 49:40\u003cbr\u003e4. Rooh (The Soul) 46:42\u003cbr\u003e5. El Haris (Anxious) 44:14\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText excerpt from the label:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eأحمد [Ahmed] is the quartet of Pat Thomas (piano), Joel Grip (double bass), Antonin Gerbal (drums) and Seymour Wright (alto saxophone). Together, the group re-arrange and re-imagine in real time the music of composer, bassist and oud player Ahmed Abdul-Malik (1927-1993).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eListening, learning.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the summer of 2022 they played five nights in a row at the fifth edition festival for other music. Fylkingen sweltering under a rare Stockholm heatwave. A different tune each night.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNights on Saturn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eOud Blues\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfrican Bossa Nova\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eRooh (The Soul)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eEl Haris (Anxious)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFive discs in a big box. Giant Beauty. Wrapped in excavated photographic detail from Stockholm’s legendary Golden Circle club.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Every night the quartet brings a new song, takes it apart\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e, puts it back together again, follows the music on unknown paths, sometimes back, sometimes not, but always remains in motion, flowing like a river in flood.” — Silvia Tarozzi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Ahmed] have played some of the tunes on Giant Beauty multiple times before, and revisit them here, ‘versioning’. Antonin Gerbal kicks things straight into high gear with the propulsive snap of Nights on Saturn’s opening beat (a then recent, now out of print LP on Astral Spirits) and they close out on the fifth day with El Haris (Anxious), the tune they played and recorded at their first public performance in a rural Swedish barn for Joel Grip’s Hagen-fest in 2016 (and later released as the now out of print LP New Jazz Imagination on Umlaut).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe second night they played Oud Blues. A tune they’d done just the one time before but under radically different circumstances — a heaving, 600 strong dancefloor for Glasgow’s spirited Counterflows festival. That recording is also coming out now on a double LP via Astral Spirits as Wood Blues — but here they trade the raucous, ragged energy there for something more chiselled and focussed. Traces linger (a perfume) of the spare concentration in Éliane Radigue and Magnus Granberg’s music heard earlier that night.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe also hear two new tunes that appear on record for the first time — the vibrant swing of African Bossa Nova giving way to the zoned in drone of Rooh (The Soul) the following night. Rooh opens with Joel Grip’s bass channelling cellist Abdul Wadud who died the same week and the performance is dedicated to him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo discussion.\u003cbr\u003eNo plan.\u003cbr\u003eNo solos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe end goal for [Ahmed] is an open, ongoing learning. An ongoing excavation of the past and re-imagination of a future music. It’s jazz but also not (only) jazz, forged through a deep commitment to a variety of musical methods and an appreciation of how the context of the music’s making informs, shapes and becomes what it is. It always comes back to time and space. The five-night residency as idea, history and lived reality provides further cause for investigation, food for thought and prompts for action...\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : أحمد [Ahmed]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003efönstret\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ecat no : \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003efönstret 9—13\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelease date : 8th April 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}