{"id":9124,"date":"2017-08-25T14:24:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T14:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=9124"},"modified":"2017-08-25T15:00:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T15:00:48","slug":"in-this-case-lesser-lakes-is-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=9124","title":{"rendered":"In This Case, Lesser Lakes is More"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lesser Lakes Trio \u2013 The Good Land<\/em> (Shifting Paradigm)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lesser Lakes Trio is a quietly intriguing, even enchanting conceptual music trio that seems both of the land and above it, like a cloud , or a broad-limbed tree, or a hovering consciousness.<\/p>\n

Their website self describes the Milwaukee-based group as three \u201csonic storytellers\u201d undergoing a \u201crestless search.\u201d These\u00a0 storytellers weave a web of enlightenment with melody and rhythm. Harmony is comparatively spare, reflecting the influence of the original\u00a0 Ornette Coleman Quartet, which liberated itself from the \u201cbackground\u201d of harmonic changes, and the pop-like but serious musical sensibility recalls another contemporary trio, The Bad Plus.<\/p>\n

The evocative statement also notes \u201cthere is something timeless and haunting in a waterway whose path skirts the larger bodies for more subtle divergencies, defying where gravity would cause most to rest.\u201d The album cover depicts a vintage photograph from 1911, of three human figures standing on a Lake Michigan shore engulfed in snowdrifts.<\/p>\n

Accordingly these somewhat meta \u201clesser lakes\u201d strive to illuminate rivulets and rushes, \u201ca regional riddle that unlocks a universal desire for musician and audience alike; to feel the wonder of it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The music radiates openness, a wide-eyed intelligence that embraces the natural world.\u00a0 On the title tune, \u201cThe Good Land,\u201d trumpeter Jamie Breiwick, here as elsewhere, is more pied piper than strutting jazz virtuoso. He unfolds a spare but eloquent theme that seems to reach out its hand to followers. The consciousness seems to survey the land, pronounce it as good and worthy of preservation, for harvesting, conservation, and appreciation. Breiwick\u2019s trumpet solo uncovers thick textures, like a spade digging into soil, turning over rock and roots, perhaps even a night crawler.<\/p>\n

So the group\u2019s musical agility and creativity serve an overarching yet humble purpose. Bassist John Christensen breathes and bellows the musical movement. Devin Drobka is a special drummer, his style uses a deft sense of space, rhythmic disjunction and momentum that implies plenty of life\u2019s complexity, but at an organic level that is not humancentric \u2013 down to the ground enough to dance with that earthworm.<\/p>\n

A shorter version of this review was published in The Shepherd Express.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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