Jasper Alblas

It's a gift that has been handed to Jasper: the ability to choose a musical partner for a unique project where the sum of the parts far exceeds the normal mathematical result.

Jasper Sloan Yip is the award-winning songwriter at the helm of the eponymous Canadian folk-rock sextet. His 2010 debut, Every Day and All at Once, charted on college radio, appeared on network television, and landed Jasper showcases at festivals all over Canada. Three years later, Jasper released his ambitious follow up, Foxtrot. The earnest naïveté of Every Day and All at Once was gone, replaced with pensive introspection and expansive instrumentation. The album was an immediate success, garnering both critical praise and heavy radio play across Canada. And now, after successful tours in Canada and Europe, Jasper is released his third and most impressive LP to date, Post Meridiem. Lush, orchestral, and cinematic, Post Meridiem is a seamless narrative that is sonically grandiose while intensely intimate.

This recording pairs the unique tenor saxophone voice of Archie Shepp with the synthesizer of Van't Hof, a duet in concert. Shepp's more conventional duet recordings (with pianist Horace Parlan, bassist NHOP) have been incredible. But this set fails to achieve the energy and creativity of Shepp's other works except in a few spots.

Una notte d'estate alla fine degli anni Sessanta. Charlie, un ragazzino di tredici anni, non riesce a dormire, quando un colpo alla finestra lo strappa dalle sue amate letture. Fuori c'è Jasper Jones, e Charlie lo conosce bene. Solitario, ribelle, spesso emarginato, Jasper Jones rappresenta il fascino del rischio e del pericolo. Quella notte Jasper ha bisogno d'aiuto, e Charlie non ha scelta, deve seguirlo nel buio. Jasper Jones ha una terribile reputazione. È un Ladro, un Bugiardo, un Delinquente, un Perdigiorno. È pigro e inaffidabile. È un selvaggio e un orfano, o almeno cosi pare…