Results for "Motema Music"

Motema Music

Daring Mind

By Jihye Lee

Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Relentless Mind; Unshakeable Mind; Suji; I Dare You; Revived Mind; Struggle Gives You Strength; Why Is That; Dissatisfied Mind; GB.

New Love

By Charnett Moffett

Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Swinging in the Realms; We Remember; Little Flowers; Today; Higher Dimensions; I Didn't Know; Flying in the Air; ETQ; New Love; Spirit & Bride Song; Love for the People; Rejoice.

Charnett Moffett: New Love

by Jerome Wilson
September 2, 2021

If one thing is obvious from this CD, it is that electric bassist Charnett Moffett is a happy man these days. His playing leaps out of the speakers on these tracks with joy and high spirits. That may be because he works here in the company of his “new love," his wife, guitarist Jana Herzen. The ...

Jihye Lee: Daring Mind

by Jack Bowers
March 31, 2021

Korean-born composer Jihye Lee is a musician who knows her own mind, whether it be relentless, unshakable, revived, dissatisfied or Daring, as on her second recording for Motema Records. In 2018, Lee earned the prestigious BMI Charlie Parker Composition Prize for “Unshakable Mind," one of nine diverse themes presented here. Another, “I Dare You," is loosely ...

Jihye Lee: Daring Mind

by Angelo Leonardi
March 31, 2021

Solo un talento eccezionale come Jihye Lee poteva ottenere risultati così brillanti e personali nel campo dell'orchestrazione jazz partendo quasi da zero. Nata a Seoul ed emigrata negli Stati Uniti da adolescente, quando s'iscrisse al Berklee College conosceva pochissimo il linguaggio musicale afro-americano e per niente la sua dimensione orchestrale. Dopo un decennio, studi di perfezionamento ...

La Madrina

March 13, 2021

Album: Visions
By Melissa Aldana
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2019
Duration: 06:03

Jihye Lee Orchestra: Daring Mind

by Mike Jurkovic
March 10, 2021

Listening to bandleader/composer Jihye Lee and her mic-drop orchestra is like watching your life flash before your eyes. You see it all: All the richness of spirit one can attain. All the sadness one can espouse. All the waltzing mischief to which one can aspire. Testing malleability at every turn, Lee's on to an ...

Revived Mind

March 6, 2021

Album: Daring Mind
By Jihye Lee
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2021
Duration: 6:44

Melissa Aldana: Visions

by Serena Antinucci
March 31, 2020

L'ultimo progetto della sassofonista cilena Melissa Aldana, governato da invasioni e tensioni musicali, è il ritratto schietto della vita nel suo continuo divenire, fatto di stacchi improvvisi, passi indietro e sguardi critici sulla realtà. In Visions (Motéma Music, 2019) ci sono architetture sonore difficili da verbalizzare e, a volte, le parole scompaiono timidamente sommerse dai suoni. ...