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Rituals by Kyle Aho

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Album Title: Rituals
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 00:46:00

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About the Album

Nine poems and phrases are the heart of this wide-ranging project by composer/pianist Kyle Aho for his Missouri-based jazz quintet, along with vocalist Christin Bohrisch. Selecting poetry and text that underscore the artist’s struggle for transcendence through creativity, Aho's search over the last decade revealed works from ancient voices such as Mayadeviyaka and Symeon, poems from Walt Whitman and Franz Kafka, and three works by his own mother, Margaret Aho. The longing resonating from the texts connected with Aho, much as the music of John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, and Keith Jarrett. With short solo piano and instrumental pieces creating a sense of balance, flow, and discovery, the poems set to Aho's compositions express a yearning for communion and spirituality, for an existence beyond the physical. "Aho is one of the most intelligent, perceptive, and skilled musicians I have ever come across." - Bob Brookmeyer

Tracks

1. Awaken (Overture) 01:05 2. Like a Stream 06:11 3. No Words 03:08 4. Rituals 05:36 5. Be Still (Prelude) 02:17 6. Be Still 01:48 7. Belonging 04:49 8. A Night in the Woods 02:31 9. God 05:24 10. Between Wand and Welt (Prelude) 02:10 11. Between Wand and Welt 03:39 12. The Well (Fragment Prelude) 01:21 13. Fragment 01:04 14. Theoria 04:54 15. God (Reprise) 01:55

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Date featured

July 22, 2022

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