ARID LANDSCAPES

ARID LANDSCAPES

Signal Chain Records

Noah Franche-Nolan, piano/keyboards/synthesizers/audio processing/composer; Dan Pitt, electric guitar/effect pedals/live looping/composer.

Unlike some experimental, electroacoustic music projects, the first tune on this album simply titled, “Prelude” relaxes me.  These two players met while they were both enrolled in University of Toronto’s jazz program.  After this meeting, Franche-Nolan relocated to New York City and then returned to his Canadian hometown of Vancouver. Dan Pitt is based in Toronto, over two-thousand miles from Vancouver. You may think that with the geographic distance being so great, these two musicians might desert their initial musical friendship.  That didn’t happen. With the onset of COVID-19, a pandemic that shut the world down, they became internet remote partners.  They continued to play together, compose together, and grew even closer.  This album is the result of that partnership.

Their music challenges genre identification.  Track #2, titled “RMTK” weaves electronic treatments into their individual talents on guitar and piano.  It becomes an improvised and soothing production of sound, melodies, and comfortable distortions. Their duo presentation both entertains and relaxes the senses.

Pitt and Franche-Nolan embrace their common training in jazz, but they ease into ambient musical moments. They explore electronic edits that make me feel as though I am floating in outer space during a tune they call “Nova.”

Dan Pitt has performed across Canada and the United States. Pitt holds a Bachelor of Music in jazz Performance from the University of Toronto. The year he graduated, Pitt won the Stingray Rising Star Award as part of the Jazz Youth Summit at the Ottawa Jazz Festival.

Noah Franche-Nolan is a JUNO and Western Canada Music Awards-nominated pianist.  This trio presentation a year ago exploits his piano talents.

Together, two innovative jazz musicians push the boundaries of music to fresh limits.  This music was recorded at Noah’s Studio in Vancouver, BC and the Brentwood Presbyterian Church in Burnaby, BC.  It blesses their unique talent as this jazz duo expresses their love of experimental music. The tracks are arranged in a way that makes me think there are more than two people making this magical music.  Arid Landscapes paints pictures of nature with music and tune titles that tickle the imagination.

Reviewed by Dee Dee McNeil

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