Cat No:
JW209
Release Date: 03 February 2023
Label: Jazzwerkstatt
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4250317420589
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
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Description
The haunting yet hopeful new album from the Berlin-based quartet Azolia, 'Not About Heroes' takes its title from the self-penned introduction to Wilfred Owen's 1920 collection Poems.
Once the scope of its horrors began to take their toll, the First World War became known as 'the war to end all wars.' More than a century later, that
idealistic sobriquet has proved with distressing frequency to have been wishful thinking. On NOT ABOUT HEROES, the haunting yet hopeful new album from the Berlin-based quartet AZOLIA, the words of WWI-era British poet Wilfred Owen are woven into rich tapestries of stark anti-war sentiment and urgent optimism.
Owen wrote his poetry from first-hand experience. He was wounded in combat in 1917 and wrote many of his poems while recuperating, diagnosed
with 'shell shock' – what would today be termed PTSD. He returned to his regiment in the summer of 1918 and was killed in France a few months later.
The majority of his poems were published posthumously, lending his already haunted lines the ghostly air of wisdom shared from beyond the grave.
NOT ABOUT HEROES takes its title from the self-penned introduction to Owen's 1920 collection Poems, which sets out a kind of mission statement
for his work. "This book is not about heroes," he writes. "English Poetry is not yet fit to speak of them… Yet these elegies are not to this generation.
This is in no sense consolatory. They may be to the next. All the poet can do today is to warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful."
Despite the tragedy of Owen's experiences and the darkness of much of his work, it is hope for peace rather than dread of war that emerges from
AZOLIA'S transcendently gorgeous and mesmerizing music. By placing these sentiments in such a profoundly moving and inventive context, they
celebrate the transformative power of the human imagination such that a world of possibilities open to the listener.
Artists:
Andreas Waelti - Double bass / Lothar Ohlmeier - Saxophone / Sophie Tassignon - Vocals / Susanne Folk - Saxophone -
Tracklisting
- 1. Shadwell Stair
- 2. On My Songs
- 3. Futility
- 4. Happiness
- 5. Not About Heroes
- 6. Greater Love
- 7. Storm
- 8. Song of Songs
- 9. The Roads Also
- 10. Asleep
Disc 1
Side 1
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Last Concert in Europe at the Space Lucerne
Urs Leimgruber, Jacques Demierre & Barre Phillips
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Only The Devil Has No Dreams
SONORE (Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Peter Brotzmann)
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Low Life / Last Exit
Peter Brotzmann & Bill Laswell
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Ruf Der Heimat - Secrets
Thomas Borgmann, Christof Thewes, Jan Roder, Willi Kellers
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Seven Whites
Peter Ehwald, Stefan Schultze & Tom Rainey
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Ten Bulls
Max Koch feat. Bill Elghart
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From A to B
Jeb Bishop, Matthias Muller, Matthias Muche
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70's Revisited - Sound Of Music
FINK
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Harken!
Threeway & John Etheridge
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Gary Smulyan & Frank Basile
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Chris Byars
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First Flight
Trialogue
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The Next Step Band (Live at Smalls 1996)
Kurt Rosenwinkel
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September Night
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
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Laying Down a Path in Walking
Jiem
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Ensconced
Ant Law & Brigitte Beraha
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