Hiromi – Hiromi’s Sonicbloom: Time Control (2007) [MCH SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC]

Hiromi – Hiromi’s Sonicbloom: Time Control (2007) [MCH SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 61:33 minutes | Scans included | 3,83 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Full Scans included | 2,45 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,33 GB
DSD Recording | Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Label: Telarc # SACD-63665

Time Control is a studio album by Hiromi Uehara’s group, Hiromi’s Sonicbloom. It’s a concept album centered on the idea of time. In addition to Hiromi’s original trio, the album features guitarist David “Fuze” Fiuczynski whose technique and tonal approach gives the album its characteristic sound. C. Mishael Blayly of All About Jazz wrote “On Time Control, the pianist largely restricts herself to the acoustic piano, giving the recording a firmly grounded tradition while her approach to the 88, coupled with Fiuczynski’s guitar playing, hurl the music into hyperspace. The pianist’s classical training is readily evident… Her chordal modulation is breathtaking in its virtuosity”.Hiromi Uehara’s version of jazz is unique without being willfully strange – clearly deeply rooted in the straight-ahead jazz verities, she nevertheless writes with a distinctly postmodern sensibility, gleefully juxtaposing wildly disparate musical elements and infusing everything with a joyful energy. In fact, joyful energy is probably the most significant hallmark of her music; on her latest album, even her attempt at a ballad eventually winds up in swinging uptempo territory, and just about everything else either rushes headlong or rocks out strongly in midtempo. This is actually something of a concept album centered on the idea of time, the control of time, and the effects of time on humans. It opens with the frantic but lovely “Time Difference,” on which guest guitarist David “Fuze” Fiuczynski is given ample room to rock out, and then lapses into the slower, funkier, but no less energetic “Time Out” (an Uehara original, not the Dave Brubeck standard). “Time Travel” starts out strong but runs out of gas about halfway through its eight and a half minute length, but “Real Clock vs. Body Clock = Jet Lag” is a real hoot – a surf-rock theme that alternates with a barrelhouse barroom piano theme and then becomes an exercise in advanced guitar and synthesizer tonal insanity. One of the most interesting things about this album is the way that Fiuczynski’s tonal experimentation draws out a similar adventurousness in Uehara, to the extent that it’s sometimes hard to tell which of them is playing a solo. Several tracks on this album are several minutes too long, but overall it’s a real treat. You’ll be tired at the end, but it will be a good tired.

Tracklist:

01. Time Difference
02. Time Out
03. Time Travel
04. Deep into the Night
05. Real Clock vs. Body Clock = Jet Lag
06. Time and Space
07. Time Control or Controlled by Time
08. Time Flies
09. Time’s Up

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