Words Project III: Miniatures - Sam Sadigursky
New Amsterdam Records, 2010 |
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1. Content |
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2. Wistful |
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3. Swirl |
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4. Now |
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5. El Hombre |
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6. Danse Russe |
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7. Recall |
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8. Ode |
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9. Do Me That Love (chorale) |
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10. Briefer (Màs Breve) |
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11. O Muzyke Tolstykh |
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12. Tears |
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13. Forbidden Fruit |
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14. Rain |
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15. Stars, Songs, Faces |
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16. Do Me That Love |
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17. To Know Silence Perfectly |
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18. Light |
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| Continuing to draw inspiration from the words of poets both legendary and obscure, Words Project III: Miniatures represents another breathtaking leap in Sadigursky's compositional evolution. Ben Ratliff of the New York Times calls the settings "personal, not particularly restricted by ideas of musical genre, quite complex and resolutely unshowy" and Mark Strycker of the Detroit Free Press writes of "compelling soundscapes that sit on the intersection of the classical art song and a wide-ranging eclecticism that references jazz, world music, post-minimalism and pop". Vocalists on the recording include Monika Heidemann, Heather Masse, Sunny Kim, Christine Correa, Michael Leonhart, Jamie Leonhart, Karlie Bruce, and Roland Satterwhite. |
Words Project II - Sam Sadigursky
New Amsterdam Records, 2008 |
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1. Paths |
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2. Such Fruit |
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3. No Theory |
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4. The Dream Keeper |
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5. Miss Teen Usa |
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6. It Takes a Nail |
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7. Indecision |
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8. The Sea and the Man |
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9. The War Works Hard |
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10. Therapy |
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| A significant departure in mood from his first CD of song settings, Sadigursky changes tone with works based on several unlikely and often ribald texts, including three of Andrew Boyd’s darkly comic and philosophic Daily Afflictions, and an edgy and sardonic setting of Caitlin Upton’s infamous moment in the 2006 Miss Teen U.S.A. pageant. Further tracks include a haunting rendition of Langston Hughes' The Dream Keeper, a spare voice/saxophone duo rendition of Audre Lorde's Therapy, and a mysterious reading of Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti's Such Fruit, among others. Featuring vocalists Becca Stevens, Monika Heidemann, and Wendy Gilles, along with Sam Sadigursky (saxophone/reeds), Pete Rende (piano/Rhodes), Nate Radley (guitar), Eivind Opsvik (bass), Bill Campbell (drums), and several special guests. |
The Words Project - Sam Sadigursky
New Amsterdam Records, 2007 |
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1. After Paradise |
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2. Still Life |
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3. I'm Glad Your Sickness |
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4. Water, Aspirin, You |
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5. Love |
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6. In the Kitchen |
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7. Gardener and Flower Too |
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8. Epitaph for a Pair of Old Shoes |
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9. After Love |
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| Selected as one of the top ten albums of 2007 by Time Out New York's Steve Smith who called it "that rare anomaly: a jazz-and-poetry record that sounds utterly natural and convincing," Sadigursky's debut recording fashions song-settings of a diverse range of classic and contemporary poetry by Czeslaw Milosz, Marina Tsvetaeva, Penelope Shuttle, Maxine Kumin and others. Featuring vocalists Heather Masse, Monika Heidemann, Becca Stevens, and Noam Weinstein along with Pete Rende (piano), Nate Radley (guitar), Eivind Opsvik (bass), Tommy Crane (drums), and Sadigursky on saxophones and reeds. |
