专辑名称：Dancing with Embers
歌手名称：Matt Carmichael
发行时间：2025-03-28
发行公司：Bridge The Gap
A collection of emotionally driven instrumental songs where melody takes centre stage, Carmichael’s new album features four of his closest friends and long-term collaborators. The quintet, playing together since they were teenagers, have developed a special chemistry grounded in collective improvisation. His most ambitious work to date, Dancing With Embers sees the saxophonist expand his soundworld with guests Rachel Sermanni (voice), Brìghde Chaimbeul (small pipes), Chris Amer and Innes White (guitars) alongside his core quintet including pianist Fergus McCreadie.
The record’s warm, intimate sound leans more into influences from singer-songwriters such as Adrienne Lenker and Bon Iver than Carmichael’s previous works. He explains ‘I listened to more singer-songwriters than anything else in the time period I wrote Dancing with Embers and wanted to create an album where the focus is on the song and not so much on having any typical Jazz solos... on live gigs the band have free reign and improvisation is at the core, but I approached the recording of this album a little differently.’
All 12 original pieces originated from Carmichael improvising at the piano, which he plays on ‘a distant glow’ and ‘woodsmoke’, bookending the record. ‘I’d never recorded myself playing piano before this album and lack the technical skill I have on saxophone, but it felt natural to play on a few tracks. My way of processing emotions and meditating in some way is through improvising at the piano every day. I really like the intimate vulnerability of those tracks and give the listener a more direct insight into the creation of my music.’
01. a distant glow
02. flint
03. stone skimmer
04. restful sky
05. road from the sea
06. dancing with embers
07. beckoning night
08. aglow
09. blue hour
10. mangata
11. kite
12. woodsmoke
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