For those unaware, TIDES (releasing August 23rd, 2024) is a sonic portrayal of the human condition, revealing itself in being at the mercy of a strong current, while seeking to find trust deep within oneself that this current is a benevolent force that eventually is going to carry us to safe shores.

New York guitarist Philip Weberndoerfer created an imaginative album that celebrates space and openness, an apparent familiarity amongst the musicians, and a bold approach towards interplay, drifting between melancholy, lightheartedness and fervor.

1. Little B’s Poem
2. Low Gravity
3. Peace of Constance
4. My Ideal
5. Salted Sweets
6. Suspense and Certainty
7. Simple Task
8. The Gypsy
9. One of These Days

The brand new recording opens on the upright bass-fed, rhythmically enchanting Little B’s Poem and then brings us the dulcet-sculpted, at first, then free-flowingly like the sea to the shore Low Gravity, the all-embracing Peace of Constance and then we are graced with the playfully languishing, funky at times My Ideal.

Up next is the impassioned range of melodies that make up Salted Sweets which is in turn backed by the languishing Suspense and Certainty, the dutifully engrossing, late night feel within Simple Task, the album rounding out on the profoundly situated The Gypsy, coming to a close on the quietly playful, and a little flirtatious One of These Days.

This collection of songs is an authentic NYC project with artists from across the East River. The musicians in this band found together as friends with the mission to preserve a childlike innocence and curiosity towards exploring music - to develop a sound cultivated by taking time, against the stream of our fast-paced environment, and shaped by the expressive force of the New York Jazz community along with the vivid nightlife throughout the city.

In pursuit of this musical journey, the Trio crossed paths with kindred spirit Dayna Stephens, whose artistic prowess complemented the vision.

The result of this collaboration is an imaginative album that celebrates space and openness, an apparent familiarity amongst the musicians, and a bold approach towards interplay that ebbs and floats while at the same time leaving room for each individual voice to breathe.

Musicians:
Philip Weberndoerfer - guitar
Richard Mikel - bass
Peter Traunmueller - drums
Dayna Stephens - saxophones (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 8)

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