{"product_id":"oded-tzur-my-prophet","title":"Oded Tzur - My Prophet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMuch like listening to late period \u003cspan class=\"span-5851\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"nowrap\"\u003eJohn Coltrane\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e or modern-day \u003cspan class=\"span-8821\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"nowrap\"\u003eCharles Lloyd\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, listening to Oded Tzur is akin to a spiritual experience. The tenor saxophonist's fifth album, \u003cem\u003eMy Prophet\u003c\/em\u003e, is his most affecting yet. Simultaneously corporeal and metaphysical, soulful and cerebral. Inexplicably, despite having four breathtakingly singular and near-perfect albums out and about already, not to mention wall-to-wall media affirmation, Brooklyn-based, Tel Aviv-born Tzur is still a relatively niche name. At its most passionate, his music lacks populist crash bang wallop. At its most devotional, it is entirely without sentimentality or cheap incense.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the qualities listed above have been constants in Tzur's music since his first album. \u003cem\u003eMy Prophet\u003c\/em\u003e adds another dimension. The album was recorded in France in November 2023, a few weeks after Hamas' attack on Israel. After the opening \"Epilogue,\" a thirty-second instrumental \"om,\" the raw anguish one imagines was being felt by the band. Tzur agrees that the Quartet is reaching new levels of intensity but ascribes the cause elsewhere. Still fundamentally consonant, like all Tzur's previous music, there are splashes of dissonance and agitation. The penultimate title track, at over eleven minutes the longest on the album, is more settled, with Hershkovits sounding delicately Erik Satie-esque.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe quartet’s synergy is of a unique blend, with each player’s distinct voice adding to an ensemble sound capable of conjuring both the quietest storm and the most passionate crescendo. Hershkovits’s bountiful stylistic reach and fluent technique swirl around Oded’s unmistakable tenor tone with Klampanis providing both backbone and melody, adaptable yet guiding – just like his rhythm-partner Almeida. Oded’s third album with ECM was recorded in Southern France and produced by Manfred Eicher. — (via All About Jazz)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/6ArIol6M1z2itznNvnGtYF?utm_source=generator\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e↓\u003cbr\u003eLabel: ECM Records\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Vinyl, LP\u003cbr\u003eCountry: Germany\u003cbr\u003eReleased: 2024\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Jazz, Contemporary Jazz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFile under: ECM Records\u003cbr\u003e⦿\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECM Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44197000347806,"sku":"602465163148","price":48.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/files\/cover_1000-copy_0f09bf36-a043-4b2b-8136-d265e048ba51.jpg?v=1722940574","url":"https:\/\/theanalogvault.mom\/products\/oded-tzur-my-prophet","provider":"The Analog Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}