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Nick Sanders Trio: You Are A Creature
ByThe second album from the Nick Sanders Trio is quirky yet beautiful, esoteric yet accessible, and unhinged yet totally organized. Threads unravel and then sew themselves back into place, playful discourse leads to more serious matters, and straight sight lines are quickly replaced by peripheral vision. Sanders' songs are built with angular lines, clustered chords, tilted themes, dissonance-peppered consonance and its inverse, tiptoeing gestures, and heavy-handed displays. There's mayhem ("Repeater"), mirth and merriment ("Round You Go"), and mystery in this music, but there's more than that. When you look at the sum total of this workSanders' twisted visions, caliginous constructs, lighthearted gestures, and weighty thoughtsyou see honesty, integrity, and artistry guided by personal expression. In art, be it musical or otherwise, that's more valuable than gold.
The bonds that exist between Sanders, bassist Henry Fraser, and drummer Connor Baker are strong. They each provide accents and punctuation ("Let's Start"), they wind through the music as a single unit ("Wheelchair"), and they manage to work a woozy angle while pulling in and out each other's orbit(s) ("Red Panda"). Further down the line, they marry the eerie with the thought-provoking ("Zora The Cat") and bring interest to relatively sedate matters ("Day Zombie"). Sanders and his band mates don't reinvent the wheel here, but they do give it a personal redesign.
Track Listing
Let's Start; Wheelchair; Red Panda; Round You Go; Room; You Are A Creature; Carol's Kid; Zora The Cat; Repeater; Keep On The Watch; Peculiar People; Day Zombie; The Blessing.
Personnel
Nick Sanders
pianoNick Sanders: piano; Henry Fraser: bass; Connor Baker: drums.
Album information
Title: You Are A Creature | Year Released: 2015 | Record Label: Sunnyside Records
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