Yamawarau (山笑う), by Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi

Yamawarau (山笑う)

by Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi

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Charlie Moonbeam Spring has sprung with another collection from the freshest ambient jazz ensemble out there.

Admo After the autumnal elegy of Fuubutsushi and the warm hibernation of Setsubun, Yamawarau emerges like a butterfly into a new world bursting with life. With a signature style that nonetheless continues to evolve, these four players have shown that the summer sky may truly be the limit to their ambitions. Favorite track: Kodama.

Joe Borreson Each and every album by these four: Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi is truly a very special treat. What I cannot fathom more than anything is that they have done all of this separately and remotely because they clearly have serious musical chemistry that excels in every recording and this one is no exception. Atmospheric folk jazzy goodness that defies categorization and is all the better for it. And I also second a vinyl box set of all these!! Favorite track: Good Morning Patrick.

Lars Gotrich Just in time for summer, the ambient-jazz quartet’s spring album! Shades of classic ECM remain, and the music’s gentle bloom can be read as spiritual, but perhaps guided more by a spirit of newness. The group has an egalitarian approach to composition, but I must say, Chaz Prymek’s (aka Lake Mary) exquisite guitar playing gets some serious shine throughout. www.vikingschoice.org/archive/vikings-choice-guide-to-bandcamp-friday-may-2021/ Favorite track: Mistral.

Simon Wilson Another brilliant installment. When it's all over please repress as box set or a 2LP overview.

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	1.	Good Morning Patrick 04:15
	2.	Mistral 04:16
	3.	Yamawarau 05:44
	4.	Floorless Room 04:13
	5.	Cracked Lake 03:37
	6.	Kodama 06:43
	7.	Flower Clock 04:01
	8.	Wisconsin Basin 05:26

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Spring rises from the ground like a spirit full of light and latent pollen. A mountain, laughing, covered in flowers. Yamawarau (山笑う) is the third in a four-part album cycle by Chris Jusell, Chaz Prymek, Matthew Sage, and Patrick Shiroishi… feel free to simply call this group “Fuubutsushi” if you so prefer. What began with their first album, Fuubutsushi, an autumnal ECM jazz suite, led to Setsubun, a warm place to hide from those too-long winter nights. As Spring breaks, the quartet have continued to refine their signature sound, to expand their mutual vocabulary, and to take playful risks together, all while maintaining their social distance.

Prymek’s guitar and bass parts serve as the primary core of this collection; his style balances deeply emotive chords and spry flourishes with unique time signatures and spiraling phase patterns. The structure here is the rich soil, once dormant, coming back to life. In response to these structures, Sage’s percussion expands into multi-tracked and polyrhythmic territory it hasn’t explored before. His piano parts fall to the background, but flourish there, coloring Prymek’s melodies. If Prymek’s structures are the soil, Sage is the roots that tangle, swirl, and hold the album down. Jusell’s violin eddies through the early buds, painting the wind with warmth, light, saturation. Lyrical, dazzling but never showy, pastoral but never campy. Shiroishi does appear with his signature saxophone some, but his vocal presence on several songs, his playful melodica, and his first turn on the guitar, the bossa-nova closer, find him continuing to push the group into new places, like a tree that every year grows into previously unexplored air, atmosphere, currents of wind. This collection feels connected to their previous albums, but also feels different; vocal harmonies appear at the center of several songs, both wordlessly and sung beautifully in Japanese. Though still approximately “jazz” these songs feel more like a kind of campfire circled by the players. They are propulsive in places, meditative in others, often dynamic, but profoundly radiating light.

What has been said before about this quartet remains true: they collectively cultivate a tenderness when playing together. That tenderness comes from patience, from foregrounding a sense of play, from leaving space and from finding joy in the act of creation as a group. Yamawarau is just that, a joy in cultivation, a smile full of new blossoms.

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released May 7, 2021

Chris Jusell: violin, voice

Chaz Prymek: guitar, bass, clarinet, synths, samples

Matthew Sage: keyboards, percussion, voice, acoustic guitar, field recordings

Patrick Shiroishi: trombone, guitar, glockenspiel, tenor and alto sax, laptop, samples, voice

photographs by Matthew Sage

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Yamawarau (山笑う)

May 2021
Futurangelics

Apr 2021
Setsubun (節分)

Feb 2021
Spoor

Feb 2021
Fuubutsushi (風物詩)

Sep 2020
Birthmark

Jul 2020
Seymour

Apr 2020
Holding

Jun 2020

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