Sam Gendel
blueblue
Album · Jazz · 2022 · Leaving Records
Listeners familiar with Sam Gendel will recognize the fuzzy mood and playfully warped sound of blueblue immediately. The difference is that where the LA-based multi-instrumentalist’s albums have previously tended to capture the digressive quality of a great sketchbook (a feeling compounded by Gendel’s general prolificness), the music here is more unified. It collapses fusion (“Yoko-Jima [横縞, Horizontal Stripes]”), exotica (“Shippō [七宝, Seven Treasures of the Buddha]”), and noir-ish soundtrack music (“Uroko [鱗, Fish Scales]”) into a kind of extended twilight in sound. Call him jazz, indie, experimental, whatever—his real medium is mood.
blueblue
Sam Gendel
Listeners familiar with Sam Gendel will recognize the fuzzy mood and playfully warped sound of blueblue immediately. The difference is that where the LA-based multi-instrumentalist’s albums have previously tended to capture the digressive quality of a great sketchbook (a feeling compounded by Gendel’s general prolificness), the music here is more unified. It collapses fusion (“Yoko-Jima [横縞, Horizontal Stripes]”), exotica (“Shippō [七宝, Seven Treasures of the Buddha]”), and noir-ish soundtrack music (“Uroko [鱗, Fish Scales]”) into a kind of extended twilight in sound. Call him jazz, indie, experimental, whatever—his real medium is mood.
