The Layers

Sound DNA

• Jazz
• Post-Bop & Modal

• sparse
• meditative
• cerebral

About

Very good things happened when guitar maestro Julian Lage added the eminent Bill Frisell to his trio with bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Dave King for <i>View With a Room</i>. What we hear on <i>The Layers</i> is a kind of sketchbook EP from those sessions, with the acoustic guitar playing more of a role. “This World” is a Lage/Frisell acoustic duet, “Double Southpaw” an acoustic duet for Lage with Roeder, and “The Layers” an enchanting, country-tinged quartet number with Lage and Frisell going acoustic once again. “Everything Helps,” “Missing Voices,” and “Mantra” are electric guitar pieces more in the mold of <i>View</i>, with intriguingly varied compositional moods and forms.

via Apple Music

Tracklist

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