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| ARTIST: | Sonic Explorers |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Balkalla, Advansor, Negative Space, Still Night Everywhere Reigning, Geraldo's Hideaway, Pardon Me, Governor, Gone, My World or Yours/Tone Me, You'll Never Know |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 733792411524 |
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Customer Reviews of So Far, So Near
Ellington meets World Music Perhaps the title might be a bit overstated, but the Sonic Explorers mesh the sound of straight ahead big bands rather seamlessly with dashes of old European folk music. On "So Far, So Near" tremendous arrangement and writing ability is complimented well with a solid chemistry among the performers. The songs are cinematic in feel ("Geraldo's Hideaway" seems almost lifted from a Fellini film) as they tell exciting sound-based stories and draw the listener in with full attention every time. Highly recommended listening.
The sonic explorations of a mature and promising ensemble
reviewer: Vangelis Aragiannis, Greece
Sonic Explorers, an ensemble ranging in instrumentation from four to seven players, were formed in Massachusetts in 1995. Their leader, Jerry Sabatini, recently left his twenty-year career in electrical engineering for the sake of jazz. "So Far, So Near" is Sonic Explorers' third album. Its title as well as its cover implies an oriental tendency. The group draws inspiration from Asia, Eastern Europe, Mediterranean, modern classical and latin-american music and infuse it quite successfully with jazz logic and forms. An admirer of the cosmic fusion of Frank Zappa, Sabatini's music also resembles that of Hieroglyphics Ensemble, the marvelous early '90s orchestra of Peter Apfelbaum. The arrangements of "Balkalla" and "Geraldo's Hideaway", two wonderful compositions, are reminiscent of Carla Bley's work with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra. Sabatini's trumpet playing is unadorned and essential and his inspired and elegant compositions have a storytelling mood. "There's a cinematic sense to what I'm doing", the trumpeter says. His seven collaborators may not be famous but they are all excellent and experienced musicians who have worked with great jazz players. In a few words the contact with Sonic Explorers' music gives us the chance to participate in the sonic explorations of a mature and promising ensemble.