Cassandra Wilson: Days Aweigh on CD
Days Aweigh
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
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- Label:
- Winter & Winter
- Year of recording ca.:
- 1987
- UPC/EAN:
- 0025091901227
- Release date:
- 15.1.2002
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*** 24 Bit digitally remastered
When Cassandra Wilson entered the scene with her first album Point Of View in the beginning of 1986, the singer with the characteristic timbre already did an important step into her international career. Now she introduces her second album.
"Point Of View for me was dark, for most parts the mood is almost eerie", says the 31-year old Cassandra Wilson (who moved from Mississippi to the Hudson six years ago) about her highly regarded debut.
Days Aweigh - a fine contrast to Cassandra Wilson's first recording : It' s a start to a brand new day as the sun rises up. It spreads its light throughout the land and fills you up with joy.
A colorful panorama, a vista of the stylistic and vocalistic flexibility of the singer, who writes a big part of lyrics, music and arrangements by herself. "A lot of my ideas come from dreams. Sometimes I wake up and connect things that happen in dreams. And then a line might come out. I start off and think about it rhythmically, to make it flow and how to structure it, that it makes sense within itself. And then the music comes as a result of that. Sometimes the rhythm tells you to send secret messages."
On Days Aweigh it was her concept to combine electric and acoustic instrumentation, says Cassandra Wilson. She is presenting swinging standards and originals. Whatever Cassandra Wilson sings, she always puts her remarkable phrasing on a senseful level - even her talent to use her voice instrumentally is never exaggerated. "Instead of being a voice, many singers are trying to imitate a horn, which is kind of backwards from the way it started out. I mean, initially the hornplayers were interested to get close to the human voice and now it's turning around. The human voice is trying to get close to the instrument."
Cassandra Wilson is a voice.
Days Aweigh is also a briliant result because of the garde of New York's up-and coming musicians: Steve Coleman (sax), Graham Haynes (tp), Kevin Bruce Harris (e-bass) and Mark Johnson (dr) are well known from Five Elements, Jean-Paul Bourelly is Cassandra Wilson's favourite guitar-player.
Kenneth Davis (bass) is known for his work with OTB and Third Kind Of Blue. Rod Williams (keyboard) was a featured soloist with Dewey Redman, David Murray, Oliver Lake and Craig Harris. Cornetist / singer Oludara leads two of the hottest New York groups: the Okra Orchestra and the Natchezsippi Band.
Reviews
J. Foerster in Audio 11/87:"...In allen neun Titeln wechseln schräge mit glatten Harmo- nien; dasselbe gilt auch für die Rythmen: ein für die stilistisch offenen jungen New Yorker typisches Produkt."Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Electromagnolia
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2 Let's face the music
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3 Days aweigh
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4 Subatomic blues
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5 Apricots on their wings
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6 If you only know how
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7 You belong to you
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8 Some other time
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9 Black and yellow
