: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Hafez Modirzadeh : Album.......: Facets : : Label.......: Pi Recordings .. .:.. . Genre.......: Jazz : Catnr.......: PI87 . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2021-03-05 Str.date....: 2021-03-05 Quality.....: 226kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://hafezmodirzadeh.bandcamp.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Facet Taborn 2:13 2. Dawn Facet 1:55 3. Facet 27 Light 3:05 4. Facet 28 Nora 1:54 5. Facet 29 Night 3:35 6. Facet 34 Defracted 3:45 7. Ask Me Now 3:50 8. Facet Sorey 5:12 9. Facet 31 Woke 7:13 10. Ebb Facet 3:53 11. Facet 33 Tides 3:27 12. Flow Facet 2:46 13. Pannonica 3:49 14. Facet BB 4:27 15. Facet 35 Ode B'kongofon 3:05 16. Facet 32 Black Pearl 1:44 17. Facet 39 Mato Paha 5:05 18. Ode Reprise 1:52 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 62:50 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 107.52______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: Facets is saxophonist/composer Hafez ModirzadehÆs latest radical :, : entreaty against the cultural hegemony of the Western notion of : :' equal temperament and his argument that musicians should be ': ,: free to explore a variety of tonal possibilities, even on piano. :, : His 2012 release Post-Chromodal Out! was the first documentation : :' of this concept, where the piano was tuned to a variety of ': ,: temperaments. Performed with pianist Vijay Iyer, The New York :, : Times called that album ôDauntlessà ThereÆs heady discipline at : :' work here, along with the stirrings of a hard-fought ': ,: individualism.ö With his new release, Modirzadeh has distilled :, : the idea to a single re-tuning, which is performed in duets with : :' three towering musicians in contemporary improvised music: Kris ': ,: Davis, Tyshawn Sorey and Craig Taborn, each interrogating the :, : pianoÆs new possibilities with imagination and ingenuity. : :' Modirzadeh himself utilizes alternate fingerings and embouchure ': ,: adjustments on his instrument to achieve intervals between major :, : and minor, and the pieces sway with an elasticity reminiscent of : :' Persian poetic meter. With eight keys re-tuned and the ': ,: remainder left in equal temperament, the music explores the :, : coexistence of familiar with unfamiliar, and in the process, : :' discovers new logic and mysterious beauty within. ': ,: :, : Modirzadeh, who the San Jose Mercury News has called : :' ôvisionary,ö described the imperative to re-tune the piano this ': ,: way: ôThe standardized temperament for piano, as beautiful as it :, : is, carries an unbalanced weight of influence over players and : :' listeners, leading many to believe that there is no other ': ,: resonance to work with but this one. This creates a value system :, : that is unjust and ultimately limits the discovery of other, : :' more personal tuning possibilities. By retuning the piano û the ': ,: one instrument that imposes a dominant influence on the worldÆs :, : music û the musician is freed to explore all tonal : :' possibilities.ö This urge is the culmination of a system he ': ,: originally called ôchromodality,ö which he developed to explore :, : the harmonic possibilities of integrating Persian tones with : :' Western equal temperament. The concept has since evolved to ': ,: allow all intervals to co-exist, which empowers each musician to :, : use their own distinctive voice to explore music from a full : :' palette of tonal possibilities, irrespective of cultural ': ,: background. The tuning Modirzadeh has chosen for this program :, : was one that spoke to him personally after much testing and : :' tweaking. Vijay Iyer says of Modirzadeh: ôThe scope of HafezÆs ': ,: synthesis of concepts across cultures is staggering. There is :, : great detail in his critical engagement with traditional : :' intervallic systems, tuning systems, and modes, and there is ': ,: also a grand sweep to his vision across disciplines and :, : historical eras. In spite of its technical complications, there : :' is genuine heart to this music and a real spiritual clarity. ': ,: Modirzadeh is not simply a æscholarÆ or æmusicologist,Æ but a :, : genuine artist, with a profound, lifelong stake in the : :' unification of research, creative work, and personal inner ': ,: quest that is expressed in his music.ö :, : : :' Interested in hearing the different approaches that each ': ,: musician will bring to the concept, Modirzadeh has been inviting :, : pianists from various disciplines to engage with this music. For : :' the recording of Facets, Modirzadeh chose three of the most ': ,: acclaimed musicians in improvised music: Kris Davis is :, : recognized as one of the foremost pianists in jazz. Her release : :' Diatom Ribbons (2019) topped most year-end lists as best album ': ,: of the year. For a quarter century, Craig Taborn has been :, : similarly recognized as a master of sheer invention on the : :' piano. Tyshawn Sorey, who is a stalwart with Pi Recordings, has ': ,: won recent praise for the premiere for his new works with the :, : Seattle Symphony and Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Primarily known : :' as a drummer, he brings the same sensitivity and openness to ': ,: discovery as the other pianists. They were sent the scores in :, : advance, but their first encounter with the actual re-tuned : :' piano was at their respective recording sessions. Each musician ': ,: works from the same set of pieces, spending time exploring the :, : novel resonances, before running through the entire book of : :' compositions. Modirzadeh gave minimal instructions, preferring ': ,: to allow each musician to shape the music as they imagine it. As :, : Modirzadeh said in an interview: ôIt takes more heart than head, : :' with the intention of something beautiful.ö He subsequently ': ,: chose what he felt to be the most magical of these performances :, : for this release. : :' ': ,: The program unfolds with ôFacet Taborn,ö which was improvised by :, : the pianist at the very end of his session after intense focus : :' on the compositions. The otherworldly resonances are ': ,: introduced, opening the door to further mysteries within. ôDawn :, : Facetö and ôFacet 27 Lightö are interpretations of the same : :' composition, first by Sorey, then by Davis. ModirzadehÆs ': ,: saxophone is gentle, vulnerable, as if opening himself to all :, : possibilities from his partners. Modirzadeh calls ôFacet 28 : :' Noraö ôthe cornerstone melody of all Facets.ö His playing is ': ,: delicate and loving, tender and haunting. ôFacet 34 Defractedö :, : is DavisÆs radical mash-up of Thelonious MonkÆs ôPannonicaö and : :' ôAsk Me Now,ö compositions that Modirzadeh separately ': ,: interprets in duet with Taborn. For Davis, ôIt all made sense :, : when we started playing the Monk tunes. Monk had this effect : :' where he would try to æbendÆ the note on the piano by adding a ': ,: note below the melody subtly for a moment, and I heard that :, : connection right away between HafezÆs tuning system and the Monk : :' tunes he chose. ItÆs like living in those bends that Monk was ': ,: creating, committing fully to the microtones he was trying to :, : achieve in that effect. I believe that if he heard these : :' versions of his compositions, he would consider re-tuning his ': ,: piano for good!ö :, : : :' As Iyer notes: ôThis album signals that we are entering a ': ,: crucial new phase in this journey: a collective meditation, an :, : unlocking of forms and truths. I can hardly imagine a clearer : :' monument, to our cataclysmic year than this set of stark, ': ,: intimate, heartfelt jewels by these four singular :, : truth-seekers.ö : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 2 1 \/