If there is one day in the week when jazz tastes particularly better, for whatever reason, that would be on a Sunday morning. It’s that feeling of having a warm cup of coffee in your hands, looking outside the window, and feeling pleasantly isolated from the rest of the world. And being absolutely OK with it.
For Matt Perrone, this feeling of content with completely shutting himself down and enjoying the solitude was a starting point for the creation of an entire album. “When I decided to write this record”, says Matt, “I decided I needed to stop living my life too close to the ground”. And this is how the concept of “Gravity’s Conflict” was born. Having two feet firmly on the ground might, in certain situations, might become a nuisance, or even a barrier blocking one’s creativity.
At almost 10 minutes long, “Gravity’s Conflict” is the closing track from Matt’s “Making Space” album, released in the early February. Combining melodies of John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” with the attitude of a New Orleans brass band, it feels like a journey through a set of improvisations which, at the end, become one new whole. “To me, the melody felt really natural and powerful”, adds Matt, “lending itself to a more simple chord progression, but with an abnormal form”.
To an extent, “Gravity’s Conflict”, with its exchanges between the piano, the trombone and the drums, feels like the best friends sharing the most positive energy with one another, and just having immense fun. If you listen closely, you will actually hear the trombone player letting out one laugh which was caught by the microphone at 6:29. A perfect summary to the entire experience which, I hope, will put a smile on your faces as well.
Photo: Press release
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