The Deep Forbidden Lake

The Deep Forbidden Lake

ASIN: B0008191ZG

Track Listings

1. Winterlong - Neil Young

2. Ol' 55 - Tom Waits

3. Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen

4. Tears - Django Reinhardt

5. Peace - Horace Silver

6. Everything in its Right Place - Radiohead

7. My Little Brown Book - Billy Strayhorn

8. Tom Traubert's Blues - Tom Waits

9. Black and White - Django Reinhardt

10. I Will - Radiohead

11. The Deep Forbidden Lake - Neil Young

12. When Will the Blues Leave - Ornette Coleman

Tracks:

Winterlong - Neil Young
Ol' 55 - Tom Waits
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
Tears - Django Reinhardt
Peace - Horace Silver
Everything in its Right Place - Radiohead
My Little Brown Book - Billy Strayhorn
Tom Traubert's Blues - Tom Waits
Black and White - Django Reinhardt
I Will - Radiohead
The Deep Forbidden Lake - Neil Young
When Will the Blues Leave - Ornette Coleman

Customer Reviews:

Candlelight music from diverse torches.............2007-05-30

Ok, now what instrumental aggregation would choose to deliver to us two cover recordings each by Neil Young, Tom Waits, Django Reinhart and Radiohead? Then round off with a little Ornette Coleman, Leonard Cohen, Billy Strayhorn and Horace Silver?
The music is cleanly and beautifully recorded. The timbre of the instruments is conveyed so clearly you will swear you can hear the placing of fingers on the fretboards. Crystalline. A calm lake surface is indeed the perfect metaphor.
Unlike their eponymous CD, there is no percussion here and, perhaps correspondingly, the pace is more relaxed. The likelihood that any given listener will be familiar enough with ALL the authors to "pick up" on many of these melodies is rather remote. For example, this is not "Southern Man" or "Heart of Gold" era Neil Young. So you will perhaps be enticed to seek out the originals, to see where the inspiration in these tunes came from.

easy on the ears, easy to love........2007-02-22

radiohead's song "i will," and leonard cohen's "hallelujah," are standouts here played by this trio that consists of mandolin, upright bass, and piano (with a little accordian playing thrown in). a recording of all instrumentals that makes for wonderful evening listening (mostly being slow to mid-tempo performances). a refreshing sound unlike any other jazz outfit, i love listening to this disc while i read. excellent stuff.

Jamie Masefield is a genius.......2005-05-22

Merely to manage hermeneutic access to such a staggering variety of musics as purveyed on this remarkable disc defies imagining; to move among them as if they're second skin is a trick beyond conjuring. One can simply bow in humble admiration not only to such chutzpah but to it pulled off so glibly and seamlessly.

Look. This is one sick disc. Who else in the history of recorded music has included Horace Silver, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Radiohead, Ornette Coleman, Leonard Cohen, Billy Strayhorn, and Djanjo Reinhardt on the same session? What kind of perverseness is this? How on earth do you make such wild eclecticism mesh, meld, mitigate? Talk about come together.

The weird thing about it is that it sounds nearly inevitable. The key here, I believe, is to eschew irony. Rather, go for the rich inherent musical vibe and nail it, albeit in a radically alien setting, here mandolin, piano, and bass. And then let the chip fall where they may. Where they fall is along a pretty straight line of gorgeous melodicism. As I say, things are played pretty straight here; no postmodern deconstruction; no wrenching forms beyond recognition; just beautiful, penetratingly insightful mining of the inherent music glories of each selection.

WAY out of left field, but certainly worth investigating.

Jamie Masefield changes it up.......2005-05-05

Its a surprising shift of gears for the Jazz Mandolin Project to tackle an album like this. Different from their last album, Jungle Tango (2003), (laden with jungle grooves and improvisation), Jamie Masefield heads in a fresh, acoustic direction in this new release.
The track listing -
1. Winterlong (Neil Young)
2. Ol' 55 (Tom Waits)
3. Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
4. Tears (Django Reinhardt)
5. Peace (Horace Silver)
6. Everything in its Right Place (Radiohead)
7. My Little Brown Book (Billy Strayhorn)
8. Tom Traubert's Blues (Tom Waits)
9. Black and White (Django Reinhardt)
10. I Will (Radiohead)
11. The Deep Forbidden Lake (Neil Young)
12. When Will the Blues Leave (Ornette Coleman)

means theres something on it for everyone. Speaking more of thoughtful melodies and arrangements than grooves and exploration, this CD shows a whole new side to Masefield's mandolin playing. Performed in a setting unlike any previous Jazz Mandolin Project album, The Deep Forbidden Lake is an acoustic, lyrical cd with an unusual pairing of renowned musicians.

Here, the mandolin is accompanied by the piano and accordion of Gil Goldstein, who also joined Masefield on Jungle Tango. Gil has performed and/or arranged music with Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius and in 2004 won a Grammy for his arranging and producing on Michael Brecker's album Wide Angles. Greg Cohen, who has also performed with a varied host of musical luminaries including Ornette Coleman, Tom Waits, John Zorn and Bill Frisell, completes the trio on upright bass.

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