Mayuko Katakura - The Duality of My Soul (2025)
Mayuko Katakura - The Duality of My Soul (2025)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 312 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 124 Mb | 00:53:47
Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop | Label: Mayuko Katakura Music
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 312 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 124 Mb | 00:53:47
Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop | Label: Mayuko Katakura Music
I’m always excited to get my hands and ears on a new release from pianist Mayuko Katakura. Her latest trio disc, recorded with bassist Takumi Awaya and drummer Noritaka Tanaka, is titled The Duality of My Soul and was released earlier this year. It hits the spot as a sharply modern jazz piano trio album.Tracklist:
The album’s eight tracks consist of seven Katakura originals and one cover song to close the set, an instrumental version of singer Abbey Lincoln’s “Being Me.” Karakura’s music is pure trio propulsion, muscular, raw, and risk-taking. Other emotions and impressions generated while listening to this music include the words heavy yet facile, determined and pointed. Whatever the subjective descriptions imply, it’s completely enjoyable, straight-ahead J Jazz coolness.
Track #1, “A Dancer’s Melancholy” (also featured on Katakura’s releases Faith and The Echoes of Three) is fantastically rich. #2 “The Duality of My Soul” is adventurously complex. #3 “Merciful Eyes” is a beautiful soft ballad. #4 “Dusk” is a thrilling backward-facing rollercoaster ride in deep groove gear.
#5 “Pursuit” evokes the forward momentum of an edge-of-your-seat chase scene where the influence of McCoy Tyner rises close to the surface. #6 “The Circle of Color Emotions”, like #4, is another riveting musical-mind-expanding highlight. Similarly, #7 “Canvas”, picks up the reins of track #5 and continues laying out exhilarating speed riffs in the improvisations and rhythms.
Finally, the last track #8 “Being Me” is a sweet and slow ballad, played with a fully romantic sentiment. In this vulnerable setting, Lincoln’s original lyrics seem to come through Katakura’s wordless piano notes, singing a personal meditation on self-discovery and acceptance, and possibly referencing (somehow) the duality of this great pianist’s own musical soul. – Brian McCrory
01 - A Dancer's Melancholy
02 - The Duality of My Soul
03 - Merciful Eyes
04 - Dusk
05 - Pursuit
06 - The Circle of Color Emotions
07 - Canvas
08 - Being Me
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片倉真由子 / The Duality of My Soul
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