Wadada Leo Smith's Organic - Heart's Reflections

La música de Wadada Leo Smith's Organic aprovecha cuatro décadas de decantación, de maduración de la innovadora propuesta que Miles Davis presentara a fines de los sesentas, mezclando jazz con rock y funk.
Heart's Reflections, segunda entrega del grupo que hiciera su debut en el segundo disco del álbum doble Spiritual Dimensions (Cuneiform, 2009), contiene estimulantes grooves, guitarras distorsionadas, sonidos etéreos cortesía del piano eléctrico Wurlitzer, bases rítmicas poderosas de puro rock.
La interpretación del trompetista Wadada Leo Smith, miembro de la AAMC (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) de Chicago desde sus inicios, es abstracta, reflexiva y destila espiritualidad.
Se destacan entre sus acompañantes: Michael Gregory tocando encendidos solos en guitarra y Pheeroan akLaff impulsando con creativos polirritmos en batería.
Wadada Leo Smith realiza en la actualidad la mejor relectura del período eléctrico de Miles sin perder personalidad. ****1/2

Disc One

1.Don Cherry's Electric Sonic Garden (for Don Cherry) 20:50

Heart's Reflections: Splendors of Light and Purification
(tracks 2-9) (for Shaykh Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili)
2.The Dhikr of Radiant Hearts, Part I 2:33
3.The Dhikr of Radiant Hearts, Part II 6:27
4.The Majestic Way 9:13
5.The Shaykh, as Far as Humaythira 7:29
6.Spiritual Wayfarers 6:11
7.Certainty 5:24
8.Ritual Purity and Love, Part I 3:35
9.Ritual Purity and Love, Part II 2:32

Disc Two

Heart's Reflections: Splendors of Light and Purification
(tracks 1-3) (for Shaykh Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili)
1.Silsila 5:35
2.The Well: From Bitter to Fresh Sweet Water, Part I 6:13
3.The Well: From Bitter to Fresh Sweet Water, Part II 5:02

4.Toni Morrison: The Black Hole (Sagittarius A*), Conscience and Epic Memory
(for Toni Morrison) 10:35
5.Leroy Jenkins's Air Steps (for Leroy Jenkins) 22:29

Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet, electric trumpet
Michael Gregory - electric guitars
Pheeroan akLaff - drums
Brandon Ross - electric guitar
John Lindberg - acoustic bass, electric acoustic bass
Skúli Sverrisson - electric bass, 6-string bass
Angelica Sanchez - acoustic piano, Wurlitzer electric piano
Josh Gerowitz - electric guitar
Lamar Smith - electric guitar
Stephanie Smith - violin
Casey Anderson - alto saxophone
Casey Butler - tenor saxophone
Mark Trayle - laptop
Charlie Burgin - laptop

All compositions by Wadada Leo Smith.

Recorded at Firehouse 12 Recording Studio, New Haven, CT

Cuneiform Records Rune 330/331 [2011]