Vancouver composer/keyboardist Gestrin merges acoustic and electric, jazz and ambient, creating rich images in sound.

Chris Gestrin is a Vancouver-based pianist, keyboardist and composer who might occasionally put you in mind of Bill Evans or Keith Jarrett, if either of those masters were young today and equally at home with the acoustic and the electronic, jazz and ambient. His handpicked, versatile quintet, featuring trumpeter Brad Turner and masterful drummer Dylan van der Schyff, creates rich images in sound.

From a tender solo piano improvisation to swirling group inventions, a 'narrative' of almost cinematic sweep unfolds. Gestrin's compositions range across jazz, experimental music, new age and world music for their ideas, but this is not fusion in any ordinary sense, there is too much originality and panache for that. The sessions were recorded in 24-bit/96K sound and mixed in analogue; the stereo version is itself a thing of beauty, while the multi-channel remix to DSD presents an imaginary environment that connoisseurs of surround sound, whether jazz fans or not, will appreciate.

Track Listing

• Stillpoint
• Never Summer Range
• Outpost
• Complex One/City
• This Past Tuesday
• Words Along a Wire
• Movement and Perspective
• Cliffs and Clouds
• My Painted Dream Bird
• Interview With a Child
• 2.23 Restart
• Shades of Night Descending

Additional Details

Label: Songlines

Genre: Jazz

Run Time: 71 mins

Release Date: 09/03/02

UPC: 774355154021