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Kevin Sun: The Depths of Memory
ByBut wind wafting down a narrow corridor may, in certain segments, serve as a more accurate metaphor. A dry Santa Ana wind puffing down an old neighborhood alleyway, a dry leaf (Sun's saxophone; or Adam O'Farrill's trumpet) lifted and pushed by the movement of parched air (for Sun's saxophone tone is a dry one) bouncing off of old rusted cars sitting up on cinder blocks, abandoned bicycles missing front wheels, a corroded dumpster, a jutting and weathered portion of old wooden fence, a wind chime hanging in an avocado tree in one of the back yards (Dana Saul's piano) tinkling gently.
This accessible but free music is not a torrent or a howling gale; it is more a placid passing of time, a following of the flow of moving molecules on their unpredictable paths toward the inevitableOrnette Coleman minus the freneticism, with more focus.
Like Sun's earlier double CD outing, The Sustain Of Memory (Endectomorph, 2019), The Depths Of Memory is two horns and a rhythm section, but it is an ambitious work. Getting a handle on it takes some deep listening that is well-rewarded. Simple on its surface, with depths revealed to those who do the immersion, those who allow themselves to drift down the alley or ride the river's flow.
Track Listing
CD 1: From All This Stillness/Frozen in Profile; Interior Choruses; From Some Unseen Center; Elliptical Blue; Ghosts Of Repetition; From Some Unseen Center (reprise); Shadow Meridian. Eponymous Cycle I; II; III. CD 2: The Depths In Slow Motion I - IV; After Depths.
Personnel
Kevin Sun
saxophone, tenorWalter Stinson
bassAdam O'Farrill
trumpetMatt Honor
drumsDana Saul
pianoSimón Willson
bassDayeon Seok
drumsAlbum information
Title: The Depths of Memory | Year Released: 2023 | Record Label: Endectomorph Music
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About Kevin Sun
Instrument: Saxophone, tenor
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