JOAN SILVER PIN «Chiaroscuro»
«Chiaroscuro» is the first and only album by Russian experimental post-jazz band JSP released in 2006.
«Being of many variable colours, and of great beautie, although of evil smell, our gentlewomen doe call them Jone Silver-pin.» — John Gerarde («Herball», 1596)
Branched out in 2004 from the Moscow Acoustic Architecture Studio, JOAN SILVER PIN (aka J.S.P.) naturally summed up the results of long-time collaboration between the Russia most prominent electronic, rock and jazz artists.
Professionally pressed CD: 6-panel cardboard folder
The interactions between very diverse musicians lead to the creation of so-called genreless music. The ideas come mostly from literature, paintings, movies, etc, and gradually take melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and timbre shapes without any dominance of genre, style or concept over emotional perceptions by the artists involved. JSP easily talk in riddles with academic, electro acoustic, jazz, rock, and ethnic music. They do not create nothing new, but express the common by uncommon means, avoid iterations and affectations. Something closer to post-modern ideology, but in fact it’s just another occurrence of the mature artistic performance.
Alexander Senko — keyboards (1-9), guitars (1, 4-7), bass (7), red trunk (9), electronics & sound design Pavel Zhulin — trumpet (1-8) Tatyana Ipatova — voice (2, 3, 7, 8) Oleg Pankratov — drums, guitars (2, 3, 8), bass (3) Stas Ignatiev — guitar (5) Rabar Rabar — alto saxophone (4)
Produced by Alexander Senko — recorded, mixed, and mastered at the Acoustic Architecture Studio in Moscow Executive production for R.A.I.G. — Igor Gorely Artwork concept & design — ZonderZond
PRESS CLIPS
«Much of this album seems almost improvised. Free-style jazz ambient may be one way of describing the music heard within. There are minutes of moving beats with vocals and harmonies followed by minutes of downtempo ambient with jazz mixtures. To any experimentalist out there, this album truely is a rare gem.» — by Lord Lycan at Heathen Harvest (USA) (February 2007).
«This is gorgeous and seductive music that shape-shifts from post-rock to electronic ambient to jazz, but cleverly enough to avoid the pitfalls of a confused mish-mash of genres. The arrangements are atypical but never aimless, and the combination of electronics, female vocalizations and traditional instruments (namely the trumpet) inspired and carefully crafted. In short, a great reward for adventurous ears courtesy of RAIG.» — by Tirdad at Mechanoise Labs (France) (February 2007).
The album was also reviewed at: DisAgreement (Luxembourg), Chopsticks Webzine (Russia), Nota-Bena (Russia), Babyblauen Seiten (Germany).
