Gordon Grdina - Pendulum '2021

Tracks list

Tracklist:

01. Gordon Grdina - Koen Dori
02. Gordon Grdina - Contra
03. Gordon Grdina - The Chase
04. Gordon Grdina - Benbow Blues
05. Gordon Grdina - Wayward
06. Gordon Grdina - Pendulum
07. Gordon Grdina - Always Been the Song II

[quote]Gordon Grdina has always been a seeker intent on transforming his
experiences into new approaches to sound. His innate curiosity has led him to
explore an ever-expanding range of styles and contexts with a growing number of
collaborators. Surprisingly, despite a discography that will include almost two
dozen recordings by year’s end, Grdina has only recently devoted his
energy to solo recordings. In 2018 he dropped his first such outing, China
Cloud, while still employing the sort of electronics and effects that have
marked so many of his dynamic band recordings, but on the 2020 album Prior
Street he unplugged completely, burrowing deeper into his solo practice.
Pendulum offers further progression, not only building on its predecessors, but
also emerging as an important new capstone atop his growing oeuvre. Once again
he complements his guitar playing with highly original excursions on the oud,
further revealing how Grdina has steadily allowed his method on each instrument
to infect the other.

Back during his school days he assiduously organized solo gigs in Vancouver
restaurants to develop his practice, particularly focusing on harmony and
internalizing standard repertoire. Yet his love for improvisation propelled him
to concentrate on collaborative situations, whether forging the ravishing
chamber-like post-bop of his 2006 debut album Think Like the Waves with Gary
Peacock and Paul Motian... [/qoute]

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