LP also contains FREE bonus album REMELT - there is a link provided within the artwork
MONOM – REMELT - an electronic re-working of the album MELT
Composed by Jure Pukl & Stane Špegel
Arranged, mixed, produced & mastered by Stane Špegel alias Monom
Includes unlimited streaming of Melt
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
High quality, 6 panel digifile with a velvety soft-touch laminate finish
CD also contains FREE bonus album REMELT - there is a link provided within the artwork
MONOM – REMELT - an electronic re-working of the album MELT
Composed by Jure Pukl & Stane Špegel
Arranged, mixed, produced & mastered by Stane Špegel alias Monom
Includes unlimited streaming of Melt
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
Purchasable with gift card
$14USDor more
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Comes with album artwork booklet PDF + album cover photo as a jpg
CD / LP also contains FREE bonus album REMELT - there is a link provided within the artwork.
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Jure Pukl - saxophone/compositions
Peter Evans - trumpet
Joe Sanders - double bass
Nasheet Waits - drums
ALBUM CREDITS
Recorded at Studio Metro, Ljubljana, Slovenia (June 18 & 19 2022)
Mixed by Stane Špegel & Jure Pukl
Mastered by Stane Špegel
Producer - Joe Sanders
Executive Producer - Michael Janisch
Photography by Petra Cvelbar
Album Artwork - NFT owned by Jure Pukl
Graphic Design - Alex Rennie & Jure Pukl
credits
released October 13, 2023
ABOUT THE ALBUM
The LP and CD contain a free bonus album REMELT - there is a link provided within the artwork where you can download this digital album. REMELT - an electronic re-working of the album MELT, Composed by Jure Pukl & Stane Špegel - Arranged, mixed, produced & mastered by Stane Špegel alias Monom
Saxophonist & composer Jure Pukl is an artist without borders. The musical journey that started with a garage rock band in his native Slovenia has taken him across continents, to classical studies in Vienna and Den Haag, to Berklee College of Music in Boston and the forefront of the jazz scene in New York City, and now back to Europe at the helm of a group of some of the most forward-looking and exciting players working out of the NYC cutting edge.
Melt brings everything together to continue his exploration of the chordless format with long-time associates Joe Sanders on bass and Nasheet Waits on drums, augmented by free-wheeling trumpet star Peter Evans in the frontline along Pukl on tenor sax. The new quartet set out across a post-Pandemic Europe, armed with a set of Jure’s tunes that allowed a maximum of freedom to explore groove, texture, and melody – “With this music, I didn’t arrange too much - it developed on the gigs, with the trust we built on the road, with three of the greatest musicians I know.”
Each tune captures a different concept, feeling or statement. ‘Slippery’ emerges from a free group improv into a skipping, sliding bass-driven melody ‘like a person falling on ice - slippery in terms of how life can be slippery’. For ‘Balkanoid’, Jure had the group improvise at the edge of extended technique before breaking into an almost folkloric melody conjuring up his homeland to ask “Why life is still so hard in the Balkans?” ‘Cruise’ has Nasheet and Joe cooking up a mutant funk beat over which the horns go wild, while at the other end of the emotional spectrum, ‘Let it Go’ is a simple ballad, as direct and appealing as the title suggests. ‘Bird In A Cage’ is a short powerful statement that seems to yearn for a way to break out from its constrictions.
‘Lost’ is a reaction to the plight of the immigrant, and to lives needlessly lost to brutality across the world. The searing tenor exploration on ‘Metallurgic’ is driven by Joe Sander’s powerful bassline: he’s at the heart of the music throughout. “Joe will bring something else - he’s a risk taker, he goes for it. His catchphrase is "Let’s do it.’’ The tune was written as a critique of what Pukl feels are the dehumanizing forces of capitalism. By contrast, ‘Vunerable’ is a simple, lyrical reflection of Jure’s realization on how fragile human life can be within the world. Peter Evans takes flight on ‘The Hunt’ with its clear links to the groundbreaking Coleman/Cherry free quartets: “Peter’s like a tsunami - he can play a LOT of trumpet. He’s a fearless improviser. I don’t have to explain to him what to do.”
The album’s genesis across a series of live shows is apparent in the high levels of empathy and cohesion on display. Sander’s driving basslines mesh with Nasheet’s polyrhythms, slipping effortlessly from hard-edged groove to freeform, inspiring Jure and Peter Evans to some remarkable feats of solo emotional expression until the group magically cohere back around Jure’s deceptively simple melodies. “I chose ‘Melt’ as the title - because we melted together acoustic and electronic - because the band blended together so well - and also because I feel like I’m melting - my whole life is changing.” It’s both the latest step in a journey and a strong statement that stands alone.
I'd received a sample cd from Whirlwind with an Arthur Hnatek album. This album is the first I fell in love with on their site. Rudyy Royston ALWAYS pulls me in! Jonathan Pryor
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