186980000909

Secular Psalms

Dave Douglas

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDGRE1090

Release Date:  01 April 2022

Label:  Greenleaf Music

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  186980000909

Genres:  Jazz  Jazz  

  • Description

    Secular Psalms is a new Dave Douglas studio album featuring a newly commissioned suite of ten pieces, with an entirely new group of young international musicians. Invited by the City of Gent and Handelsbeurs Theater to commemorate 600 years since the creation of the Gent Altarpiece by Jan Van Eyck, Douglas branches out into new instruments like the serpent, lute, organ and sampler, providing a painterly panorama of new sounds. Drawing on Latin Mass, on early medieval folk songs, on composers of the period, like Guillaume DuFay, and on jazz and improvised music, Douglas and team deliver a lyrical, mystical, spiritual score full of upbeat optimism for our times. Douglas says the title refers to ""songs of praise for all of us.' For this project he has invited musicians Tomeka Reid, Marta Warelis, Berlinde Deman, Frederick Leroux and Lander Gyselinck. A surprising and uplifting release created during these pandemic times.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Arrival
      • 2. Mercy
      • 3. We Believe
      • 4. Agnus Dei
      • 5. Instrumental Angels
      • 6. If I’m In Church More Often Now
      • 7. Hermits and Pilgrims
      • 8. Righteous Judges
      • 9. Ah Moon
      • 10. Edge of Night