(Progressive Jazz / ECM / Vocal) Susanne Abbuehl - April {ECM 1766, Germany} - 2001, APE (image+.cue) lossless

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REM GENRE Jazz
REM DATE 2001
REM DISCID 860DE00B
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb4"
PERFORMER "Susanne Abbuehl"
TITLE "April"
FILE "Susanne Abbuehl - April.ape" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Yes is a pleasant country"
    PERFORMER "Susanne Abbuehl"
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  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Ida Lupino"
    PERFORMER "Susanne Abbuehl"
    INDEX 00 05:24:52
    INDEX 01 05:28:35
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Closer"
    PERFORMER "Susanne Abbuehl"
    INDEX 00 12:54:60
    INDEX 01 12:59:17
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "All I need"
    PERFORMER "Susanne Abbuehl"
    INDEX 00 18:09:37
    INDEX 01 18:12:55
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "A.I.R. (All India Radio)"
    PERFORMER "Susanne Abbuehl"
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    TITLE "Seven - Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond"
    PERFORMER "Susanne Abbuehl"
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    TITLE "Skies maybe blue; yes"
    PERFORMER "Susanne Abbuehl"
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    TITLE "'Round Midnight"
    PERFORMER "Susanne Abbuehl"
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    TITLE "Maggie and Milly and Molly and May"
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    TITLE "Since feeling is first"
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    TITLE "Mane na"
    PERFORMER "Susanne Abbuehl"
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Switzerland-born singer Susanne Abbuehl studied with the influential vocalist Jeanne Lee (1939-2000) while attending the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, amidst her wholehearted interest in North Indian classical music. On her first release for ECM, Abbuehl and her fellow European musicians render an often thought-provoking program, augmented by the infamous "ECM aesthetic." However, the thrust of this outing emanates from the vocalist's incorporation of e.e. cummings' poems set to her music, while she appoints lyrics to a few Carla Bley compositions. Abbuehl possesses enticingly affectionate vocal attributes coupled with her soft incantations and atmospheric means of spinning a tale. Clarinetist Christof May serves as a near perfect foil for Abbuehl, as he frequently contrasts the singer's animated lyrical approach and tenderly stated choruses. The band utilizes punctuated rhythms and space as means for regenerating subtly executed micro-themes to coincide with these rather introspectively enacted works. A sense of fragility permeates this exquisite outing, as the artists' elegantly devised methodologies might be analogous to witnessing an oil painter applying strokes to a canvas. Simply stated, Abbuehl and associates have provided the modern jazz world with a picturesque soundscape, awash with articulately executed mosaics, that tends to impart a lasting impression. Recommended. ~ Glenn Astarita

Self-referential and remarkably consistent, the ECM label has come to represent a state of mind: a place where melancholy and romance intertwine, seductively rendered in gorgeous sound. The Swiss-born singer, Susanne Abbuehl, making her ECM debut, clearly knows the territory, paying homage to the ECM artists who helped explore it. Backed by piano, clarinet, and drums, all played with a spare angularity (suggesting the early ECM recordings of Paul Bley), Abbuehl's clear diction and wistful delivery align her with fellow ECM stalwarts Annette Peacock and Carla Bley. Indeed, she covers several of Carla's tunes, including "Ida Lupino" and "Closer" (vehicles for the aforementioned Paul) as well as "A.I.R" (from Escalator over the Hill), in which she uses her voice as an instrument, reminiscent of Jan Garbarek's version of the same tune (from ECM's Witchi-Tai-To). Treatments of poet e.e. cummings's elliptical words, and a doleful version of Monk's "Round Midnight" round out the album, with Abbuehl's lovely voice providing bittersweet balm for late-night introspection. --Wally Shoup