Results for "Jordan Smart"

Jordan Smart

Shadow Work

By Mammal Hands

Label: Gondwana Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Black Sails; Wringer; Boreal Forest; Solitary Bee; Three Good Things; Living Frost; Near/Far; Straight Up Raining; Transfixed; Being Here.

Mammal Hands: Shadow Work

by Phil Barnes
November 22, 2017

Our best musicians can soak up influences from many diverse sources, assimilate them into their own style, and allow them to emerge during improvisation. This is why, as readers of this site will surely be aware, a piece can sound different in the hands of two skilled jazz musicians even when the raw material of the ...

Floa

By Mammal Hands

Label: Gondwana Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Quiet Fire; Hillum; Hourglass; Think Anything; In the Treetops; Eyes that Saw the Mountain; Kudu; The Falling Dream; Shift

Mammal Hands: Floa

by Phil Barnes
July 23, 2016

Mammal Hands debut album Animalia from autumn 2014 impressed with its emphasis on the overall collective effect over solo pyrotechnics, a choice that perfectly complemented the build and release of tension in the music. Of course in a trio set up the contributions of each member are always discernible and the twist of substituting Jordan Smart's ...

Animalia

By Mammal Hands

Label: Gondwana Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Mansions Of Millions Of Years; Snow Bough; Kandaiki; Spinning The Wheel; Bustle; Inuit Party; Street Sweeper; Tiny Crumb.

Mammal Hands: Animalia

by Phil Barnes
October 18, 2014

Tough economic times have seen a lot of musicians aggregate into trios of one sort or another of late. Sonically the more minimalist sound has the upside that it is more easily reproduced live and avoids the logistical and financial difficulties of maintaining a large ensemble. The trouble is that it becomes more and more difficult ...