Releases
Reija Lang Trio: Soundoscope
HP1250091
Release date April 7, 2010
A Night On The Island
(Luolajan-Mikkola/Lang)
Invitation
(Kaper/Webster)
Something Worth Waiting For (Con Alma)
(Gillespie/Caswell)
How I Wish (Ask Me Now)
(Monk/Hendricks)
For Sophie
(Luolajan-Mikkola)
Like A Lover
(Caymmi, Motta, Bergman, Bergman)
Pink Cloud On The Sky
(McClure/Lang)
Cosmic Snake
(Luolajan-Mikkola/Lang)
Duke Ellington´s Sound Of Love
(Mingus/Mingus)
In The Still Of The Night
(Porter/Porter)
Celeste
(Towner)
Peace Piece as introduction to Very Early (Evans/Very Early lyrics by Hall)
Soundoscope
Reija Lang Trio is building on the alluring acoustic sound - combining influences from the Afro-American jazz legacy and the European chamber jazz wave. The delicate and rarely heard sound is created with an interesting instrumentation - vocals, guitar, double bass and violin.
The trio members belong to the top notch jazz musicians in the Finnish jazz scene. Vocalist Reija Lang with her capturing and lovely alto sound and scatting skills, guitarist Petri Krzywacki with his fine-sounding and stylish playing - teamed up with Mikko-Ville Luolajan-Mikkola - who is best known as a classical and jazz violin virtuoso and bass player with sovereign style.
www.myspace.com/reijalangtrio
www.reijalang.com
www.petrikrzywacki.com
www.myspace.com/mikkovilleluolajanmikkola
Burn Out Mama: Out Of Office
HP1250090
Release date March 25, 2009
Top-Up & Intimacy (Mylläri-Lang) - mp3 sample
Nu Song (Mylläri-Lang) - mp3 sample
Falling Down (Jones-Lang) - mp3 sample
Infinite (Jones-Lang) - mp3 sample
CSI (Gascoyne-Lang) - mp3 sample
Zawinul (Jones-Lang) - mp3 sample
Too Many Stars (Mylläri-Lang) - mp3 sample
Blood Stomp (Gascoyne-Lang) - mp3 sample
Naked Brother (Gascoyne-Lang) - mp3 sample
Burn Out Mama (Robinson-Lang) - mp3 sample
Elysium (Gascoyne-Lang) - mp3 sample
Liner Notes By Markus Partanen
Producer, Jazz Journalist
Burn Out Mama: Out Of Office
Hysteric joy. Anguish. Rush. Dreams and romanticism. Worries and pleasures. Imagined monsters. Every day surprises. Welcome to the world of Burn Out Mama.
Burn Out Mama has found an apt name for the band: those three words open one possible listening-horizon, that can house the wild palette of feelings which the band's music evoke. This one really burns, with a big flame and a sense of risk. Familiar things and domestic situations can turn strange in the blink of an eye. Didn't the late Frank Zappa sing about dangerous kitchen?
But don't get me wrong: Burn Out Mama does not live at one extreme, but on a wide scope of expression. That's how things gain weight in life and in music, from opposites, like a tender moment from a violent mood. Artistically that kind of scale is very challenging for the musicians to fulfill, but Ms. Reija Lang and the band accomplish the unique expedition masterfully. The production of the album has wit and ingenious details, that peel open like an onion with each new listening.
Burn Out Mama's Out of Office actualizes one important feature of jazz's legacy, the courage to renew forms of expression in a radical manner. That doesn't mean that the album is a jazz record in any traditional sense of the term: the processed beat-box rhythms on some of the tracks mirror more something like techno. After all each listener must find her or his own stance on this music. I say it's refreshing.
