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Artist: Anjou, Brittany
Title: Enamigo Reciprokataj
Format: CD
Label: ORIGIN RECORDS  ( http://originarts.com )
Catalog Number:82774
Barcode:805558277429 itemnumber=1000123367
Price: $16.98  (All prices include domestic shipping.)
Genre: JAZZ
Release Date: 2/15/2019
Availability: In Stock
Additional Musical Category Notes:
PIANO TRIO 



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Promotional Info
International performances; Publicity by Terri Hinte; Service 400 radio stations and press outlets including JazzWeek reporting stations

Pianist Brittany Anjou has explored everything from Ahmad Jamal to Bikini Kill between her roiling original compositions inspired by Bartok, Stravinsky, Red Garland and McCoy Tyner. It makes great artistic sense that the title of her first major piano trio album and the five-part suite contained within is in Esperanto, the "constructed" international language. Just as Anjou's English-language title "Reciprocal Love" becomes Enamigoh Reciprokataj (En-äh-mee-joh Reh-sih-pro-käh-tye), so too does the mainstream language of the piano jazz she loves get translated into something strikingly different and psychically original. Jazz fans will detect familiar influences in what Anjou calls her "inner trio dialogs" featuring bassist Greg Chudzik and drummer Nick Anderson. Anjou's compositions comment on the art of the trio even as they bask in its glories. With its minimalist repetitions, free-jazz-meets-Rachmaninoff flourishes and electronic framing, there's a trippy sense of expansiveness in the music. Her compositions are both dreamlike and bracingly wide-awake.

Track Listing
 1. 
[3:08]  STARLIGHT  

 2. 
[3:12]  RECIPROKATAJ I: CYRENE (FLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLY)  

 3. 
[9:16]  SNUFFALUFFAGAS  

 4. 
[4:24]  RECIPROKATAJ II: GIRLS WHO PLAY VIOLIN  

 5. 
[6:13]  BALLIOU FOR BARTOK  

 6. 
[3:53]  HARD BOILED SOUP  

 7. 
[6:10]  RECIPROKATAJ III: HARFA  

 8. 
[10:37]  RECIPROKATAJ IV: OLIVE YOU  

 9. 
[6:57]  RECIPROKATAJ V: FLOWERY DISTRESS  

10. 
[3:51]  RECIPROKA ELEKTRA  


Performers on this Album
BRITTANY ANJOU - Piano
GREGORY CHUDZIK - Bass (ex. 9)
NICHOLAS ANDERSON - Drums (ex. 9)
BEN PEROWSKY - Drums (9,10)
ARI FOLMAN-COHEN - Bass (9,10)

Additional Technical Information Available For This Album
Release Format: CD         
Original Recording Location: Tedesco Studios, Paramus, NJ
Original Recording Engineer: Tom Tedesco
Mastering Facility: Universal Music, New York, NY
Mastering Engineer: Kevin Reeves
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