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Chris Gestrin: After the City Has Gone: Quiet
by AAJ Italy Staff
“Non mi piace parlare di musica perché, come ogni forma d’arte, essa si relaziona in maniera differente con ciascuna persona“. E in effetti ascoltando After the City Has Gone: Quiet, ultimo lavoro discografico del pianista, compositore ed ingegnere del suono canadese Chris Gestrin, verrebbe da seguire alla lettera l’affermazione che apre le stringate note di copertina ...
Chris Gestrin: After the City Has Gone: Quiet
by Jerry D'Souza
Back in 2004, Chris Gestrin (piano, prepared piano, percussion) went into a studio in Vancouver to record his music. He had a dream and he wanted to realize it with musicians that he had long wanted to play with and those that had made a mark on the improvised music scene. Some of it was written, ...
The Distance
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2006
Track listing: Ferns; Treacle; #47; Dark Engine; Treant; View from the Road; Extrinsic; The Distance; Voice in the Night; Second Approximation.
Chris Gestrin / Ben Monder / Dylan van der Schyff: The Distance
by Tom Greenland
An elaborative collaboration, The Distance--featuring Chris Gestrin (prepared & unprepared piano), Ben Monder (eclectic guitar), and Dylan van der Schyff (percussion)--is an expansive set, demonstrating the instant and infinite affinity possible when like musical minds meet. Recorded at the 2004 Vancouver International Jazz Festival, the CD documents a fast and freely composed concert of chamber jazz. ...
Motions
By Jon Bentley
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2004
Track listing: Storytime; Stakeout 3451; Queen of the Box Office; The Low Road; Remembering Chris; Prepared; Undertones; Leytonstone; Infinite Justice; Full Circle; Heyoke Part III; Motions
Stillpoint
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: Stillpoint; Never Summer Range; Outpost; Complex One/City; This Past Tuesday; Words Along A
Wire; Movement And Perspective; Cliffs And Clouds; My Painted Dream Bird; Interview With A Child;
2.23 Restart; Shades of Night Descending.
Chris Gestrin: Stillpoint
by AAJ Staff
There's a sense of unquiet about Chris Gestrin's Songlines debut, Stillpoint. As for the quiet part, the pianist and his quintet do spend quite a bit of time perusing the open spaces of tranquility and distance. This is not a loud record. Gestrin's solo piece “This Past Tuesday" has a strongly meditative quality, sounding like a ...
Trio
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Released: 2001
Track listing: In the Wee Small Hours of The Morning; To Give Again; The End of Thought; Autumn Leaves; Where 2?; Dance; 'Round Midnight; No Beliefs, No Desires; Bemsha Swing; Waiting for April; How Deep is the Ocean.
Chris Gestrin: Trio
by AAJ Staff
For those who may be inclined towards the subtle dynamics and interplay of the Bill Evans Trio sound, a record cut by a Canadian piano trio led by the pianist Chris Gestrin, may indeed be a welcome presence in your collection. That so-cogent sound which has since been extended on through Keith Jarrett and now onto ...
