Product Description
Title: Julian Lage – Speak To Me Format: Coloured Vinyl 2 LP Label: Blue Note Barcode: 0602458830750
Release date: March 1st 2024
Guitar virtuoso Julian Lage has announced the March 1 release of Speak To Me, his vivid and wondrously textured new Blue Note album produced by Joe Henry which offers a series of dispatches from his ongoing search for narrative beyond words. Intimate in tone and capacious in intention, the music travels a wide range of American music, and delights in the deliberate crossing of wires between gospel hymn and rural blues, California singer-songwriter sunshine and skronky jazz. The 13-track set of new Lage originals is introduced today with a 2-track single pairing the hard-driving, bluesy “76” with the atmospheric acoustic ballad “As It Were.” The album also includes the previously released single “Omission,” a reverent tune imbued with a pastoral swing. Speak To Me showcases the guitarist in a variety of settings, including solo acoustic, duo, his accustomed trio with bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Dave King, and a larger ensemble with keyboards (from Kris Davis and Patrick Warren) and woodwinds (Levon Henry). It’s Lage’s fourth effort for Blue Note, and it’s part of a torrent of creative activity that includes his participation in Charles Lloyd’s Trio of Trios project and records with Terri Lynn Carrington, John Zorn, and Cautious Clay.
Track Listings
1 | Hymnal (Lage) |
2 | Omission (Lage) |
3 | Northern Shuffle (Lage) |
4 | Myself Around You (Lage) |
5 | Serenade (Lage) |
6 | Speak To Me (Lage) |
7 | South Mountain (Lage) |
8 | Vanishing Points (Lage) |
9 | Two And One (Lage) |
10 | 76 (Lage) |
11 | As It Were (Lage) |
12 | Tiburon (Lage) |
13 | Nothing Happens Here (Lage) |