Bruce Hornsby and YMusics’ new experimental jazz album about water

 BRUCE HORNSBY & YMUSIC: Deep Sea Vents (Thirty Tigers)

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Best recognized for his Nineteen Eighties hit The Way It Is, a track about financial strife and race relations in America, Bruce Hornsby’s days as a ‘Top 40 band man’ are gone. 

The singer and pianist now prefers a jazzier strategy, and Deep Sea Vents is an experimental album about water and the way it impacts our lives. 

The strings and woodwind of New York chamber music ensemble music are outstanding, though these songs are somewhat too rarified. But there is a energetic rap about, of all issues, a duck-billed mammal on Platypus Wow, whereas the funky Deep Blue is bolstered by trumpet and electrical sitar.

Best recognized for his Nineteen Eighties hit The Way It Is, a track about financial strife and race relations in America, Bruce Hornsby’s days as a ‘Top 40 band man’ are gone

The singer and pianist now prefers a jazzier strategy, and Deep Sea Vents is an experimental album about water and the way it impacts our lives

The strings and woodwind of New York chamber music ensemble music are outstanding, though these songs are somewhat too rarified 

SMETANA: Ma Vlust (Pentatone)

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The Czech Philharmonic might play Smetana’s nice nationalistic work of their sleep, however they’re nicely awake right here.

Russian-American conductor Semyon Bychkov, their musical director, is presiding over one of many orchestra’s nice intervals and Pentatone’s engineers are doing them proud.

Ma Vlast (My Country) begins with a harp solo evoking the traditional bards and continues with six sections portraying the legends, panorama and historical past of the Czech individuals.

Everyone is aware of the favored sections Vltava and From Bohemia’s Woods And Fields, however the different 4 elements of this mighty suite are equally nicely formed and orchestrated.

Smetana makes good use of folks and conventional materials, particularly the noble Hussite chorale ‘Ye who’re God’s warriors’, heard within the final two sections, Tabor and Blanik.