Gregg Belisle-Chi – Hum (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:21 minutes | 462 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © AGS Recordings
A merging of allegedly opposing forces/sensibilities. A balancing act of sorts. An eloquent evocation of intricate imagination and thoughtful improvisation. A dalliance with intensity that somehow often ends up feeling like intimacy. These are sentence fragments attempting to describe in words that which is certainly beyond words. Ah, the nagging and seemingly inescapable conundrum…
Here you go: the music of guitarist Gregg Belisle-Chi and his superbly responsive and flexible Quartet, negotiating dizzying compositional labyrinths while also spontaneously drawing us, the ardent listeners, into a magical web of shared ideas/language. So rarely does music that possesses more than a whiff of boldness also offer such graceful moments of open-ended musical conversation. I’m trying not to put ideas in your collective heads, but it’s hard not to. Sorry! Many of these compositions of Gregg’s are mind-bendingly complex; unison lines between guitar and saxophone effortlessly assaying that which my tiny brain strains to comprehend. Who imagines such madness, such intricacy?? Gregg Belisle-Chi does.
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Tim Berne, Gregg Belisle-Chi – Mars (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:21 minutes | 543 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Intakt Records
With his extensive artistic biography, Tim Berne is one of the most outstanding figures in American jazz. Rising star Gregg Belisle-Chi, a connoisseur of Berne’s music, has this year released the acclaimed album Koi, featuring interpretations of Tim Berne’s compositions on solo acoustic guitar.
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Gregg Belisle-Chi – Tenebrae (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:51 minutes | 727 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Songlines
Seattle-based guitarist and composer Gregg Belisle- Chi presents his debut album, Tenebrae, featuring music for solo guitar and duo with Chelsea Crabtree. Assimilating influences from his work with various jazz, avant-garde, pop/rock, folk and chamber ensembles, the music on Tenebrae is hard to categorize as it hovers somewhere between contemporary classical and jazz but transcends those labels through its haunting expressive depth. It also relates to the alternate tradition of new music for solo guitar going back to John Fahey, as well as the avant folk of artists like Robin Holcomb.
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