Chroma

Emma Rawicz

Released on 25-08-2023 by ACT Music
Main artists: Emma Rawicz
Genre: Jazz
Distinctions: Qobuzissime

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Just over a year ago, the fledgling British musician Emma Rawicz caused a sensation with her first self-produced album Incantations. It was the spontaneous affirmation of a mellifluous saxophone as a true tenor, combining the influences of great masters such as Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter and Michael Brecker. She is more than just a pretty instrumental voice however, demonstrating serious ambitions and talent as a composer, as evidenced by the opening track "Voodoo," an abstract pictorial work in fauvist colours in a musical setting. Now supported by the German label ACT, she’s back with Chroma at the head of an all-star band featuring the guitarist Ant Law (already present on the first album), singer Immy Churchill, Ivo Neame on piano—all guided by the implacable strength of a high-flying "made in the UK" rhythm section of Conor Chaplin on bass and double bass and Asaf Sirkis on drums.

Switching between tenor saxophone, bass clarinet and flute with a great sense of timbre and nuance, this polyphone describes composition and arrangements in great complexity, in the very modern register of a neo-fusion mixed with post-bop and spiritual jazz. Making use of the full spectrum of her chromesthesia Rawicz is able to illustrate with impossible vividity. Each piece is named after colours she confesses she has never heard before, whose symbolism she makes use of respectively. The three versions of the theme "Xanadu," which serve as the backbone of the whole, offer a remarkable insight into Emma Rawicz’s art, which we might ultimately consider this time as an art of variegation. A remarkably coherent work, full of promise for the future which was bound to become Qobuzissime! © Stéphane Ollivier/Qobuz

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Chroma

Emma Rawicz

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