Release Date: 22 September 2017
Label: Enja
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 767522975420
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 22 September 2017
Label: Enja
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 767522975420
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
Featuring Ingrid Jensen (Maria Schneider Orchestra) and Charles Altura (Chick Corea, Terence Blanchard) Two years after releasing his highly acclaimed 2015 album, Natural Perception (ENJA Records), Tobias Meinhart returns with his ponderous and compelling sophomore release, Silent Dreamer.
This album is decidedly darker than his debut, both in tone and in subject matter, as Tobias makes use of a tonal palette more familiar to brooding alternative and popular music: lumbering straight 8th grooves, synthesizers, effects pedals, Rhodes and electric bass all coalesce underneath Tobias's melodic modern jazz sensibility to form a single sound that is all at once engaging, grating and cathartic.
As implied by the album's title, Silent Dreamer is intended to recapture the essence of the unconscious imagination: both ethereal daydreams and bitter nightmares, as well as all the invisible worlds that live between the two. Tobias about his new album: "When improvising and composing, I like to think of myself as a 'SOUND-PAINTER' adding strokes to a canvas and bringing it to life."
Tracklisting
Anke Helfrich
Lisa Wahlandt
Roy Nathanson
MoonMot
Makiko Hirabayashi Trio
Banz Oster & The Rainmakers
Luis Borda
Chico Freeman
Conrad Herwig
Norma Winstone & Kit Downes
Oded Tzur
Su Rossy Girod, Nat Su, Jorge Rossy
Jonathan Salvi Arugula Sextet
Bob Baldwin
Steven Nichols
Orlando le Fleming