Gordon Grdina - Live at the Armoury (Live at the Armoury Studios, Vancouver, BC) '2023

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The GLM trio brings together three world class improvisers from North America
and Europe. The album was recorded live at the Armoury Studios and It captures
the unedited intensity and excitement of the band playing live with the flawless
audio expected from the studio experience.
Gordon Grdina is a JUNO Award (Canadian Grammy) winning oud/guitarist whose
career has spanned continents, decades and constant genre exploration throughout
avant-garde jazz, free form improvisation, contemporary indie rock and Arabic
music. He leads many ensembles including Nomad Trio with Matt Mitchell and Jim
Black, 10-piece Arabic/Avant-garde ensemble Haram and the Persian Inspired The
Marrow with Mark Helias, Hank Roberts, and Hamin Honari.
Berlin based Christian Lillinger is the Artist of the Year Award at the
inaugural 2021 Deutscher Jazzpreis and of prizes from broadcaster SWR and the
German Record Critics, there is nobody else who plays the drums like Lillinger.
He is "a drummer of remarkable skill and vision." (Downbeat); "the man taking
drumming to a higher level" (Die Zeit); "a completely new type of jazz drummer"
(Der Spiegel) . With astonishing technical prowess, he builds polyrhythmic,
multi-dimensional structures and incorporates his own concepts of time and metre
into a unique coalescence.
Mat Maneri, a leading improvisational voice of his generation, was born in
Brooklyn in 1969. He began studying the violin at the age of five, but since
borrowing a viola for a jam session at the 1998 ECM festival in Badenweiler, he
has made the viola his instrument of choice. He's the son of the late seminal
reeds player Joe Maneri.
Jazz writer Jon Garelick has written of Maneri’s distinctive style:
“Maneri’s virtuosity is everywhere apparent – in his
beautiful control of tone, in the moment-to-moment details that unfold in his
playing, in the compositional integrity of each of his pieces, in what visual
artists might call the variety of his ‘mark-making’: spidery
multi-note runs, rhythmically charged double-stops and plucking, subtle and
dramatic dynamic shifts.” He has a massive discography that touches every
corner of the jazz and improvisational landscape.
This is the first meeting of the trio recorded in 2018. The music is filled with
intense exploration to the wide ranges of the improvisers. They are able to
invoke within the confines of the smallest gesture large sound worlds of
historical significance. Statements are rooted in the American jazz tradition,
European improvisation and Arabic Taqasim while not remaining confined to either
genre or stylistic concerns. It is a group constantly searching and reaching a
unified statement different from each of their substantial recorded output. 

Gordon Grdina guitar, oud
Mat Maneri viola
Christian Lillinger drums



Tracklist:
1.01 - Gordon Grdina, Christian Lillinger, Mat Maneri - Conjure (Live at the
Armoury Studios, Vancouver, BC) (29:45) 
1.02 - Gordon Grdina, Christian Lillinger, Mat Maneri - Ballistic (Live at the
Armoury Studios, Vancouver, BC) (5:19) 
1.03 - Gordon Grdina, Christian Lillinger, Mat Maneri - Communion (Live at the
Armoury Studios, Vancouver, BC) (10:52)

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