Kamasi Washington
Fearless Movement
70--100点相当
SPIN 含む2メディア以上が満点
出だしから、フランク ザッパ/マザーズ の
雰囲気を感じたよw
最高だけど、あえて難を言えば
小難しいなぁw
もともとjazz方面のほうが濃いから仕方ないけど
良作
Kamasi Washington says that, first and foremost, this sixth full-length album is is paean to flexibility. It’s a topic that few musicians of his generation are better placed to discuss. Since making his breakthrough with ‘The Epic’ in 2015, the saxophonist has become one of the more unlikely crossover success stories of recent years by taking staple jazz influences and reshaping them so adventurously that he seems to be speaking a musical language all his own; in an era where the genre has become a niche concern, ‘The Epic’ and 2018 follow-up ‘Heaven and Earth’ seemed to capture imaginations both in and outside of the jazz scene through the sheer force of their vibrancy.
Ordinarily, an artist enjoying this kind of validation might use it as a foundation to cast the shackles off on their next record, but Washington was already in the business of three-hour conceptual odysseys long before he was picking up Grammy nominations. So whilst ‘Fearless Movement is not necessarily any looser or wilder than its predecessors, it is, as the title suggests, unafraid to wander down any stylistic avenue its creator pleases. At the centre of it is the aforementioned fascination with flexibility, both physical – the whole record acts as Washington’s tribute to the art of dance – and metaphorical, inspired too by the profound changes to his life since becoming a father in 2020.
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