The Sound Will Tell You, by JASON MORAN

The Sound Will Tell You

by JASON MORAN

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Philip Graham Each track makes its own inexorable, unpredictable path to your heart. Favorite track: Toni Morrison said Black is a Rainbow (Shadow).

GreyRecluse Perhaps the best album of piano music I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. Absolutely stunning. Favorite track: Follow the Light.

Stacy Nathaniel Jackson Say it loud, "I'm Sound and I'm Proud" This album is resistance, science fiction, Toni Morrison and Octavia Butler at my dinner table! Favorite track: Toni Morrison said Black is a Rainbow (Shadow).

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1.	Follow the Light 02:38	buy track
2.	Spoken in Two (Tear) 02:55	buy track
3.	For Love 03:56	buy track
4.	My Mother's Handful of Tea 03:35	buy track
5.	Only the Shadow Knows (Honey) 04:56	buy track
6.	Body & Soul with Intimate Friends (Shadow) 03:06	buy track
7.	Dawns after the Dream 02:13	buy track
8.	Bee Mantra (Honey) 03:22	buy track
9.	How much more terrible was the Night 03:12	buy track
10.	The only morning coming (Tear) 02:34	buy track
11.	Hum then Sing then Speak 05:16	buy track
12.	Toni Morrison said Black is a Rainbow (Shadow) 04:23	buy track

about

The Sound Will Tell You, Moran's 3rd Solo piano recording, was made on January 4-6, 2021. Half of the works use an effect dubbed "DRIP", a filter to allow the sound cast a shadow. The Drip gives the note another gravity. These pieces are marked by "tear", "honey" and "shadow. Moran, from Houston, also recalls DJ Screw's ability to give a song a new sluggish gait. Drawing out the drawl and sinking the beat into the mud. The music moves in slower motion.

Many of the titles refer to Toni Morrison, the author Moran read most frequently during quarantine. She evokes sound often and speaks of the pitch black night as "it may as well be a rainbow." - Song of Solomon.

The Sound Will Tell You is being concurrently released with an exhibition of new works on paper at the Luhring Augustine Gallery in Tribeca, New York. Moran's practice of recording his hand motions on the piano manual creates a variation on the "recording". The attack of the finger on the key leaves a mark and accumulates residue.

A believer in "melody", much like his idols Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols, Moran writes pieces that retrace themselves. The songs step into their own footsteps, a choreography of repetition, occasionally disrupting their own dance. Body and Soul remains a piece Moran circles around, this time with a nod to Eddie Kendricks' Intimate Friends.

For Love was recently heard in the film version of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me, which Moran scored. His dedication to the melody is what pulls this record into another territory, aiming to eliminate the differences between melody and solo. The narrative drives these works.

How much more terrible was the Night highlights America's current state of pandemonium.

credits

released January 15, 2021

Cover Photo - Ari Marcopoulos
Recorded on January 4-6, 2021 at: The Bridge Studio, in Brooklyn, NY
Head Engineer: Amon Drum
Assistant Engineer: Greg Tock
Mixing Engineer: Amon Drum
Mastering: Raven Moran
Jason Moran is a Steinway & Sons artist.

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Jason Moran New York, New York

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Mar 09

Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall

New York (NYC), NY
Apr 05

Salle Des Concerts - Cité De La Musique

Paris, France
Apr 06

Salle Des Concerts - Cité De La Musique

Paris, France
Apr 08

Martinskirche

Basel, Switzerland
Apr 13

Kölner Philharmonie

Cologne, Germany
Apr 16

Pierre Boulez Saal

Berlin, Germany

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