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Yelena Eckemoff: I Am a Stranger in This World
by Tyran Grillo
To feel estranged from one's own mind is among the quiet terrors of modern life. It is this condition, ancient yet urgently contemporary, that Yelena Eckemoff confronts on I Am a Stranger in This World, a double album that treats the Psalms of David not as scripture to be recited but as psychic terrain to be ...
Yelena Eckemoff: Colors live at KITO Bremen
by Tyran Grillo
Colors is less a suite than a life in motion, and in this solo performance at KITO Bremen, Yelena Eckemoff allows that life to unfold with an unguarded clarity that feels both intimate and elemental. What began as a duo project with drummer Manu Katché becomes, through circumstance and choice, a meditation stripped of all counterweights. ...
Yelena Eckemoff: Lonely Man and His Fish
by Tyran Grillo
After a run of emotionally expansive albums, pianist and composer Yelena Eckemoff once again pivots without losing her center. Reinvention has become part of her artistic language, and here it arrives with a new cast and a story told in patient detail. Kirk Knuffke appears on cornet, Masaru Koga on a flute modified with a shakuhachi ...
Yelena Eckemoff: Romance of the Moon
by Tyran Grillo
With Romance of the Moon, Yelena Eckemoff descends further into the symbolic night, carrying Federico García Lorca's poetry as a living grammar in her heart. This suite of 13 compositions does not illustrate the poems so much as converse with them, answering their obsessions with music that listens as intently as it speaks. Lorca's moons, bells, ...
Yelena Eckemoff: Scenes From the Dark Ages
by Tyran Grillo
Yelena Eckemoff has long composed as though mapping weather rather than terrain, tracing pressure systems of mood and atmosphere while leaving strict pulse to others. Her music often moves with purpose yet refuses the easy certainties of groove, circling rhythm instead of kneeling before it. This has never felt like abstinence or austerity. It feels more ...
Yelena Eckemoff: Nocturnal Animals
by Tyran Grillo
There is something quietly revelatory about music that chooses the night not as a backdrop but as a mode of thought. With Nocturnal Animals, pianist and composer Yelena Eckemoff enters this liminal terrain with rare attentiveness, offering an album that does not describe animals so much as think alongside them. This is music that crouches, listens, ...
Yelena Eckemoff: Colors
by Tyran Grillo
There is a particular kind of courage in naming an album Colors. Not because the idea is simple, but because it is vast. To invoke color is to invoke perception itself, the mind's habit of sorting the world into tones and meanings, the heart's insistence that even the subtlest shade has a moral weight. With Colors, ...
Yelena Eckemoff: Better Than Gold and Silver
by Tyran Grillo
Some albums attempt to explain sacred text. Others adorn, elevate, or dramatize it. Better Than Gold and Silver does something rarer. It listens. It waits. It receives. Yelena Eckemoff does not set the Psalms of David to music so much as she attends to them, as though all that remains is to hear what still trembles ...
Yelena Eckemoff: Lions
by Tyran Grillo
Pianist Yelena Eckemoff, a melodic marvel whose gift for atmosphere has been apparent from the beginning, has never felt comfortable settling into a single definition. Rooted in classicalism yet never bound by its strictures, she has carved a singular path through the world of jazz, guided by a restless imagination that treats genre as porous terrain ...
Yelena Eckemoff: Blooming Tall Phlox
by Tyran Grillo
For this quintet outing, pianist and composer Yelena Eckemoff is joined by Verneri Pohjola on trumpet and flugelhorn, Panu Savolainen on vibraphone, Antti Lotjonen on double bass, and Olavi Louhivuori on drums and percussion. Together they move through a sequence of 15 originals that feel less composed than remembered, as though the music were lifted from ...
