Life & Umbrella

Imagery Converter

Spreading empathy, understanding, and love for Autism. "cubist passages of shifting, sublime beauty with flashes of sudden movement" Chicago Reader

Javier Red - Piano Gustavo Cortiñas - Drums Jake Wark - Tenor & Soprano Saxophones Ben Dillinger - Bass Desafio Candente Records Produced by Javier Red. Recorded by Scott Steinman/ assisted by Jon

Spreading empathy, understanding, and love for Autism. "cubist passages of shifting, sublime beauty with flashes of sudden movement" Chicago Reader

Javier Red - Piano Gustavo Cortiñas - Drums Jake Wark - Tenor & Soprano Saxophones Ben Dillinger - Bass Desafio Candente Records Produced by Javier Red. Recorded by Scott Steinman/ assisted by Jon San Paolo at Electrical Audio. Mixed and Mastered by Scott Steinman at Studio Media Recording. Art work by Carmen Chami. Graphic Design by Alexis Ramirez Rivera. All compositions by Javier Red (ASCAP) ® & Javier Red Music © 2023, ALL RIGHTS Reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, lending, and broadcasting prohibited.

This album is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Art Council Agency, through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Is is also partially supported by an Individual Artist Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.

1) Thoughts unable to be contained: Their thoughts are like water, they flow freely and escape at the first chance.

2) The happiness of hope: The tenderness of a newborn child, and their parents' dreams about the future.

3) Imaginary friend: Powerful, and clear as reality.

4) Brain checking: Let’s run some tests, just to rule out...

5) Umbrella: Always open; no way of closing it.

6) Resilience cycle: The everyday cycle of failures and recoveries.

7) This is what they found: The process of moving on from the diagnosis.

8) Life: Keeps moving, like the earth, the sun, and the stars.

9) Interior world: The hidden world of wonders behind their silence.

10) Different tempos: A different pace of life to be understood.

11) Choices: There’s no map of what is best to do, but only an overwhelming array of choices.

12) Future, umbrella, and life: An unforeseeable future, concealed under the umbrella, while life keeps moving forward.

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Thoughts Unable to Be Containe 6:18

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The Happiness of Hope 3:42

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Imaginary Friend 6:41

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Brain Checking 7:58

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Umbrella 1:09

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Resilience Cycle 7:18

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This Is What They Found 4:10

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Life 0:54

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Interior World 8:10

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Different Tempos 5:19

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Choices 5:30

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Future, Umbrella, & Life 11:22

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Javier Red's Imagery Converter Ephemeral Certainties

Imagery Converter

Description Javier Red’s Imagery Converter – Ephemeral Certainties Delmark DE 5031 (2019) Compact Disc

This is music for the time after. After so many trends and the aftermath of 20th century’s aesthetic propositions this is music that reflects into itself and contemplates itself on a historical mirror without recurring to the alibi of the “

Description Javier Red’s Imagery Converter – Ephemeral Certainties Delmark DE 5031 (2019) Compact Disc

This is music for the time after. After so many trends and the aftermath of 20th century’s aesthetic propositions this is music that reflects into itself and contemplates itself on a historical mirror without recurring to the alibi of the “tribute”. This is music that, as poet Ezra Pound said, assumes “the tradition is a beauty we preserve and not a set of fetters to bind us. Some may say Javier Red picks up where Chicago pioneer Lennie Tristano had left his experiences of organized freedom. And it wouldn’t be wrong. This is cool and smart music, shamelessly intellectual. It is both highly conceptual and very focused on vindicating the craft, the careful embroidering of the musical tapestry. Not unlike Tristano’s, Javier’s music is extraordinarily demanding on the musicians because of the level of skills expected from them but also because of the deep commitment that it is required to perform it. Knowing your changes, patterns and scales is not enough to play this music in which the form is reinvented for each composition and where shifting time signatures and bi-tonal or poly-tonal passages bring the complexity of Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, and the Mexican genius Silvestre Revueltas right into the 21st century jazz alchemy.

In a time in which the mainstream jazz language usually embraced by club owners and festival and radio programmers is some sort of inconsequential neo-bop, taught in colleges all over the country, Javier Red and his musical partners immerse themselves in a deep and long process of collective melodic, harmonic and rhythmic quest. Album artwork by Marcos Raya.

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