Julian Lage – Speak To Me

Description

Guitar virtuoso Julian Lage has announced the March 1 release of Speak To Me, his vivid and wondrously textured new Blue Note album produced by Joe Henry which offers a series of dispatches from his ongoing search for narrative beyond words. Intimate in tone and capacious in intention, the music travels a wide range of American music, and delights in the deliberate crossing of wires between gospel hymn and rural blues, California singer-songwriter sunshine and skronky jazz. The 13-track set of new Lage originals is introduced today with a 2-track single pairing the hard-driving, bluesy 76 with the atmospheric acoustic ballad As It Were. The album also includes the previously released single Omission, a reverent tune imbued with a pastoral swing.

Speak To Me showcases the guitarist in a variety of settings, including solo acoustic, duo, his accustomed trio with bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Dave King, and a larger ensemble with keyboards (from Kris Davis and Patrick Warren) and woodwinds (Levon Henry). Its Lages fourth effort for Blue Note, and its part of a torrent of creative activity that includes his participation in Charles Lloyds Trio of Trios project and records with Terri Lynn Carrington, John Zorn, and Cautious Clay.

Tracklist

1. Hymnal (Lage)
2. Northern Shuffle (Lage)
3. Omission (Lage)
4. Serenade (Lage)
5. Myself Around You (Lage)
6. South Mountain (Lage)
7. Speak To Me (Lage)
8. Two And One (Lage)
9. Vanishing Points (Lage)
10. Tiburon (Lage)
11. As It Were (Lage)
12. 76 (Lage)
13. Nothing Happens Here (Lage)