Release Date: 13 May 2013
Label: Cracked Anegg Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 9120016850503
Genres: Jazz  
Release Date: 13 May 2013
Label: Cracked Anegg Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 9120016850503
Genres: Jazz  
Description
Maria Christinas songs are rooted in jazz an improvised music but reveals influences of contemporary classical music, rock and indie styles.
Ephemerality and the endlessness of time are the central motives of Maria Christina's debut album 'The Timeless In You'. She has set primarily her own thoughts on these themes to music, as well as texts from Khalil Gibran, E.E. Cummings and Frank O'Hara.
In 2009 Maria Christina left home to study in New York with her mentor, Theo Bleckmann. Three years of intensive collaboration with the Grammy-nominated singer have culminated in this CD, on which Bleckmann also serves as co-producer.
Maria Christina narrates from her life in the USA and Europe, a life between two continents, in which every parting carries the seed of a reunion. Joy and sorrow, beginnings and endings, light and shadow, togetherness and isolation - these opposites yearn for reconciliation; without one another they cannot exist. They are contrasts, not contradictions.
The music, too, moves between worlds: Rooted in jazz and improvised music, the pieces reflect the influence of contemporary classical, rock and indie styles, occasionally employing loops and vocal layers.
The recording ensemble consists of young denizens of the New York music scene who have achieved international renown in recent years:
Steve Newcomb – piano (AUS), James Shipp – vibraphone (USA), Matt Davis – guitar (USA), Sam Anning – bass (AUS) and Richie Barshay – drums (USA).
Tracklisting
Georg Graewe Franz Koglmann Quintet
Koglmann Arcari Pasztor
Harry Sokal Groove
The Little Band From
Marina Zettl
Kevin Mahogany
Maria Christina
The Little Band From Gingerland
John Lurie
Zacchae'us Paul
Christian Sands
Kurt Rosenwinkel
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Slowly Rolling Camera
Matthew Ottignon
Jiem