Elori Saxl & Henry Solomon - Seeing Is Forgetting (True Panther) [Ambient Jazz]
- The Slow Music Movement
- 3 days ago
- 1 min read
*** This blog post first appeared in TSMM's April 7th Newsletter, where you can get all the tips (and more) first ***
Elori Saxl has been floating around the TSMM blogs and playlists for the last five years, ever since her great The Blue of Distance LP - a charming neoclassical meditation on technology’s effect on our relationship with nature. The composer, producer and sax player Henry Solomon is news to me, but after a quick peek at his discography to see if any album covers rung a bell (I’m better at recalling images than names), I noticed he appeared on the recent Otto Benson release - it’s a small, shrinking, but supportive alternative music world out there.
Together, over the course of a few nights of recording sessions in Los Angeles, they’ve come up with something of an ambient jazz gem. It sounds like a free-flowing session - more improvised than pre-composed. There’s a gaseous quality to Saxl’s synth work - the electro-ambient currents inadvertently ushered around the studio space by the musician’s deliberate movements, although at times the sounds get cornered into rhythmic, minimal patterns which occasionally pulse or jab tones through the speakers. Solomon, for his part, adopts a similar approach, going with the ambient flow; his effect soaked, at times looped, baritone sax and bass clarinet carving their way through the electronic haze. Why ambient jazz is not more of a thing, I shall never understand?
Playlist Companion
For more ethereal endeavour check the Slow Ambient Playlist.