[TR24][OF] Yelena Eckemoff Trio - Lions - 2015 (Modern Creative)

For Yelena Eckemoff, finding the nexus where training and an early successful career in the classical sphere meet with the Moscow-born, North Carolina-resident pianist/composer's more recent predilection for jazz and improvised music has been a wholly natural pursuit. A meeting place where the whole is invariably greater than the sum of its parts, with "Lions" - her eighth jazz album in nine years - Eckemoff once again raises the bar on a very personal approach to bringing detailed composition and freewheeling extemporization together with the idea of music as real narrative.
It's hard not to be swept away by Eckemoff's vision of African vistas and wildlife from a lioness' viewpoint. Eckemoff's music finds compelling middle ground between through composition and the loose interpretative interaction that any trio bolstered by Andersen and Hart is bound to possess. The three musicians traverse considerable territory, from ethereal atmospherics both sun-charred and moonlit indigo and more grounded explorations of groove, to cinematic expanses that evoke imagery reflective of Eckemoff's experience - the soundtrack to the most personal of imaginary films. And whether it's Eckemoff's impeccable virtuosity and penchant for the impressionistic, Andersen's lithe muscularity and irresistibly singing tone, or Hart's ability to suggest time with the broadest use of color and texture, Lions is an album that continues to surprise long after it's been spun for the first time.

foobar2000 1.3.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2018-05-26 23:13:03
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Analyzed: Yelena Eckemoff Trio / Lions
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR9       -1.00 dB   -12.38 dB      9:27 01-Lions
DR10      -1.01 dB   -14.97 dB      9:01 02-Migrating Birds
DR8       -0.98 dB   -11.46 dB      4:37 03-Pursuit
DR12      -0.99 dB   -15.95 dB      8:35 04-Night In Savanna
DR12      -1.01 dB   -16.38 dB      7:32 05-Stars Bathing In Shallow Waters
DR9       -1.00 dB   -12.26 dB      4:20 06-Young At Play
DR9       -0.99 dB   -13.98 dB      6:49 07-Sphinx
DR10      -1.00 dB   -14.32 dB      7:31 08-Simple Pleasures
DR8       -0.99 dB   -11.87 dB      6:06 09-Lions Blues
DR11      -1.00 dB   -15.73 dB      8:21 10-Instinct
DR10      -0.97 dB   -15.01 dB      7:31 11-Surviving The Famine
DR8       -0.99 dB   -11.17 dB      6:27 12-Joining The Pride
DR16      -2.06 dB   -25.53 dB      2:45 13-Ode To Innocence
DR8       -1.00 dB   -11.45 dB      4:57 14-Ode To Strength
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Number of tracks:  14
Official DR value: DR10
Samplerate:        88200 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   24
Bitrate:           2758 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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