Kenny Werner Trio - Animal Crackers (2017) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

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Kenny Werner Trio - Animal Crackers (2017) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

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Kenny Werner Trio - Animal Crackers (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 54:09 minutes | 1,05 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Werner’s Animal Crackers has the sense of child-like joy, as the trio plays with time and line. Kenny calls it a challenging song. “It’s more of an étude. The idea of the complexity is that it sounds simple but abstract.” First freely improvised and later orchestrated by Werner, Breathing Torso undertakes a journey into the heart of the band as they sing of the body electric. The trio once again transforms a standard on I Should Care, with the melody more implied than stated as the three play around and outside the changes. A companion piece to Who, from the trio’s 2015 Pirouet record, The Melody, What? seems to venture into some sort of dark Avant-funk, as the trio explores new territory, electronic overdubs and all. The trio’s beautiful interpretation of the standard If I Should Lose You floats in out of a balladic and a medium-up swing feel. The Latinesque Iago was inspired by the harmonic concepts of Brazilian composer Weber Iago, and Mechanical Arm is another collaborative concoction that breathes life into the machine through rhythmic layering and group interplay.