Jay Clayton, Kirk Nurock – Unraveling Emily (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Jay Clayton, Kirk Nurock – Unraveling Emily (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:06 minutes | 373 MB | Genre: Jazz
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An air of mystery surrounds the work of Emily Dickinson. The beloved writer spent most of her time away from the public’s eye amassing a collection of poetry that has fascinated readers for decades.

Her short, gnomic verses are a perfect fit for vocalist Jay Clayton and composer Kirk Nurock. On their new recording, Unraveling Emily, Nurock weaves Clayton’s innovative vocalizing into surreal compositional soundscapes.

Nurock overdubbed multiple layers of Clayton’s singing and speaking, with varying ambience, echo and spatial relationships. A haunted theatrical quality appears, as if Dickinson’s ghost is trying to tell a story, without beginning or end.

A handful of poems were set as heart-rending ballads. The quiet “All This and More” has an uplifting feel, while “Will There Really Be a Morning?” is devastating in its blunt emotionality. Clayton’s mastery is in full voice on “A Something In a Summer’s Day” and the duo really make Dickinson’s words swing on “I May Remember Him.”

Tracklist:

1. Jay Clayton & Kirk Nurock – Still We Know (Prologue) (01:08)
2. Jay Clayton & Kirk Nurock – All This And More (03:54)
3. Jay Clayton & Kirk Nurock – My Letter To The World (02:10)
4. Jay Clayton & Kirk Nurock – Will There Really Be A Morning? (02:17)
5. Jay Clayton & Kirk Nurock – Hope (01:06)
6. Jay Clayton & Kirk Nurock – I May Remember Him (03:46)
7. Jay Clayton & Kirk Nurock – Wild Nights (02:32)
8. Jay Clayton & Kirk Nurock – A Something In A Summer’s Day (04:46)
9. Jay Clayton & Kirk Nurock – This More and All (02:13)
10. Jay Clayton & Kirk Nurock – I’m Nobody (02:07)
11. Jay Clayton & Kirk Nurock – Emily’s Piano (02:04)
12. Jay Clayton & Kirk Nurock – World | Letter | Majesty (02:09)
13. Jay Clayton & Kirk Nurock – All And More This (03:20)
14. Jay Clayton & Kirk Nurock – How Happy I Was (01:00)
15. Jay Clayton & Kirk Nurock – Morning, May Remember (04:54)
16. Jay Clayton & Kirk Nurock – I’ve Seen A Drying Eye (01:00)
17. Jay Clayton & Kirk Nurock – I Never Spoke With God (02:19)
18. Jay Clayton & Kirk Nurock – Perchance Eternity (02:14)
19. Jay Clayton & Kirk Nurock – To Possibility (01:59)

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