This Song Rocks my World

Go to

http://www.eldarjazz.com/

Click on Launch My Audio Player

Then navigate to "Virtue" (album) and choose "Exposition".

This CD has been out since last August (09) but I am still not tired of it, especially not this song. It is a nearly daily spin.

AllMusic.com gives Virtue 4 Stars (sept 2009)

Eldar Djangirov continues hell-bent on dazzling audiences with his impressive technique, speed-demon array of notes, and music that is displaying more of a jagged edge and abject angular inventions. The staggeringly pronounced music he is making takes a different turn on Virtue, utilizing horns and synthesizers, but it's mostly his kamikaze acoustic piano -- frequently turning on a dime -- that is the centerpiece.

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My thoughts:

Angular, yes, I agree, but still tuneful! And the time signature changes pull you along, it's like watching birds flock and turn and swing through the sky or water tumbling over rocks. So organic, so lithe, so dynamic, loud then soft, tumbling and pooling and falling over the edge into a tumble. The bass keeps forward momentum throughout, climbing lines enhance tension. When the song ends it is as if a beautiful dream has been rudely awakened. Not that the song ends badly, just that it ends at all. It should go on.

This song for me is much like Michael Manring's Monkey Businessman. The pulsing, the dynamics, the flight and the swoop. All there.

There is nothing quite like falling in love with a song.

AvivaShir