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Brad Shepik: Human Activity Suite
by J Hunter
Theoretically, it should be difficult to do protest music without lyrics; nevertheless, that hasn't stopped Terence Blanchard, Ben Allison, and--most recently--Jeff “Tain" Waits from launching heat-seeking discs aimed right at the heart of some of this decade's most sensitive political issues. Now it's guitarist Brad Shepik's turn at bat with Human Activity Suite, only he's done ...
Brad Shepik: Human Activity Suite
by Martin Gladu
Deep-blue oceans, airbrushed clouds, flaking dabs of greens receding into desolate plains... Remember the first time you saw a picture of the Earth? Remember that feeling?Did you know one can cover the Earth with one's thumb when standing from the Moon? Defenseless in the pitch-black, still silence of the Universe, our home--at least, that ...
Brad Shepik: Human Activity Suite
by Mark Corroto
Social issues are not new to jazz composers. Sonny Rollins and Charles Mingus wrote music in the heyday of the civil right movement and more recently Charlie Haden produced his antiwar Not In Our Name (Verve, 2005) for his Liberation Music Orchestra. Guitarist Brad Shepik, like many of us, is thinking globally. He speaks to the ...
Brad Shepik: Human Activity Suite
by Matt Marshall
Guitarist Brad Shepik has admitted that a strictly musical approach to environmental issues may not be as persuasive as a song that can speak directly to specific problems with its lyrics. Nevertheless, his Human Activity Suite, a series of world music pieces intermixed with pieces highlighting the causes and effects of global climate change, is a ...
Brad Shepik: Human Activity Suite
by Troy Collins
A powerful indictment of mankind's role in global warming, Human Activity Suite is guitarist Brad Shepik's most expansive and earnest project to date. Global warming is an issue close to Shepik's heart, as explained in a December 2008 interview with Frank A. Matzner.A well-versed world traveler, Shepik has explored many cultural traditions--both on his ...
The October Trio: Looks Like It's Going To Snow
by Matt Marshall
Josh Cole, the bassist and primary composer for The October Trio, cites Wayne Shorter as one of his major inspirations and that influence is apparent throughout the Canadian trio's Looks Like It's Going To Snow, with guest trumpeter Brad Turner. There are strong references to Miles Davis' Shorter-heavy Miles Smiles (Columbia, 1966) and the saxophone legend's ...
Music Needs You
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: Winter Melt; Thinning Air; Music Needs You; The Quiet Space Left Behind; Barceloneta; Liberty; You Can Talk During This; Wrong Turns; Tired House.
Boxing Dreams
By Sean Noonan
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: Boxing Dreams; Courage; Morpheus; Crazy Legs; The Return of the Peanut Butter Queen; Mayrose; Big Mouth; Look; Story of Jones; Over-n-Out; Lost in Gunter's Wald.
After the City Has Gone: Quiet
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: Disc 1: Metres Per second; To Sink in Posture; Living Candles; Viewpoint 1; Prelude in D; Turnstiles: Many Skies; Beauty Walks in This World; Bees; The Seeds of My Departure; Viewpoint 2; As Pointless as the Weather; D.S.; With Such Unsettled Heart; The Loves of the Angels.
Disc 2: Write by Return to Your Longing; The Melody That Is; Guilty gates; #47; Moonshine Run; Command and Promise; On the Back of a Tiger; The Lasting Taste of Spring; Storied Walls; Silence of faded Emblem; The Evening
One Dance Alone
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: July II; A Walk In The Rain; July III; A Fond Farewell (for Nica); July I; To Say Your Name; Waltz From Woman of Tokyo; One Dance Alone; Good Shepherd; We Never Met; Undecided.
