{"id":121233,"date":"2024-06-27T13:40:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T17:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/?post_type=records&p=121233"},"modified":"2024-06-27T14:18:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T18:18:43","slug":"pan-m-360-at-fijm-julian-lage-speak-to-me","status":"publish","type":"records","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/records\/pan-m-360-at-fijm-julian-lage-speak-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"PAN M 360 AT FIJM | Julian Lage – Speak To Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


No other media outlet in Montreal has so many people on hand to provide expert coverage of the Festival International de Jazz de Montr\u00e9al. Many of us are scouring the outdoor site and concert halls: Jacob Langlois-Pelletier, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Cardin, Stephan Boissonneault, Michel Labrecque, Varun Swarup, Vitta Morales and Alain Brunet bring you their album reviews, concert reports and a few interviews. Happy reading and listening!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a bright eyed teen, an old jazz drummer once told me how I could win over any audience: appeal to their bones, their brains, and their hearts making sure you at least have two out three. In other words, he was telling me to keep it danceable, interesting, and emotional. Since then, I\u2019ve often tried to listen to music through this filter and I would be lying through my teeth if I didn\u2019t give Julian Lage\u2019s newest album props for achieving exactly this. (In various combinations and quantities, of course). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speak To Me <\/em>is Lage\u2019s latest studio album not yet four months old as of the time of writing. In the fashion we\u2019ve come to expect from Lage, we\u2019re treated to something diverse and eclectic but grounded. Is it jazz-folk? Rock-jazz? Jazz fusion folk-rock? Whatever naming conventions you subscribe to, or don\u2019t, his unique playing and composing is really on display here. From pointillistic and avant-garde clarinet in the latter half of \u201cSouth Mountain;\u201d to lush and slow-jammy in \u201cSerenade;\u201d to driving guitar lines and droney marimba in \u201cSpeak to Me;\u201d I\u2019d venture to say that there is a least one thing in Speak To Me <\/em>you\u2019ll find danceable, interesting, or touching. Julian Lage will be giving both a masterclass and performance on June 27th. The masterclass will be 3pm at Galerie TD (2nd floor of Studio TD) where Lage will surely be able to field questions about his compositional process, his favourite guitarists, and his preference of string gauge among other things. The performance will be at 9pm at Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Jean-Duceppe where you\u2019ll be able to see his eclecticism in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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