Name: Be Here Whenever
Brand: Be Here Whenever

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

3779359

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-07-02

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0687437793592

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Be Here Whenever

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Jazz

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Jazzland

Jazzland is a New York jazz label that was established in 1960 by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews as a companion to their Riverside Records label. Originally focused on reissuing Riverside recordings, the label soon shifted its focus to new recordings, particularly material by Cannonball Adderly.

In 1972, Jazzland was bought along with its parent Riverside label by Fantasy. Since then, the label has continued to be a prominent force in the jazz music industry, releasing exceptional recordings from talented artists.

With its rich history and dedication to showcasing the best of jazz music, Jazzland remains an influential and respected label within the genre. From classic reissues to groundbreaking new releases, Jazzland continues to captivate audiences with its diverse catalog of extraordinary jazz recordings.

Be Here Whenever is a perfect circle of nine creations by Danielle de Gruttola (cello), Henry Kaiser (guitar), Benedicte Maurseth (hardanger fiddle) and Stein Urheim (guitar). It is music filled with the intense mindfulness that comes when one is confronted by nature at its most awe-inspiring, those places where one becomes acutely aware of how small they are within this world, never mind the cosmos beyond its thin atmosphere.

Such moments give shape to spirits of nature, and it is these that inform the music of Be Here Whenever. Beginning with the scene-setting "Førespel", with its evocation of light reflecting from snow and ice, the album winds a serpentine route through its milestones, embracing musical influences and accents from Norwegian folk to Delta Blues to ambient Americana to plainsong, with hints of familiar tones that echo from Ry Cooder to David Torn to Captain Beefheart.

The sound of resinous wooden string music from the cello and hardanger fiddle by turns dominates, integrates, and dissipates within the various guitar sounds that often take the modern "ambient guitar" vocabulary and reshape it into an entirely new patois, or soar into proto-electronic sounds that chatter, chirp and sing like unfamiliar birds or howl like wolves. By turns, the music can feel like music of worship for a church of vast open expanses, a ballet of snowflakes, a gumbo stomp from a Louisiana Bayou displaced to polar regions beneath whorls of aurora, or the sound of spring thaw. It endlessly evolves and reshapes itself, sonic forms emerging and receding, with varying intensity and density. It is the music of transformational and transforming nature, organic, untameable, intimately present.

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