Description
Tracklist:
A1: Travelers
A2: Peaceful Warrior
A3: Nemesis
B1: Riddle Me This
B2: Into The Labyrinth
B3: Karma
B4: Roadside Distractions
C1: Harvesting Dance
C2: Praise
C3: Afterglow
D1: Memory of a Flame (Bonus Track)
D2: Travelers (Alternate Take)
This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition was mastered by Kevin Gray and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Optimal.
This first-time vinyl release includes two bonus tracks previously only available in Japan.
Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition on 180-gram 2LP.
Runouts are etched.
Pianist and composer Aaron Parks made his first Blue Note appearances as a member of Terence Blanchard’s band, an outfit akin to The Jazz Messengers in its cultivation of future jazz greats. After appearing on the trumpeter’s albums Bounce, Flow, and A Tale of God’s Will through the early 2000s, Parks made his own Blue Note debut in 2008 with Invisible Cinema, a striking album that has only grown in its influence across the modern jazz landscape since its release.
The band-a quartet featuring the pianist with Mike Moreno on guitar, Matt Penman on bass, and Eric Harland on drums-travelled across new sonic and rhythmic frontiers on this set of Parks’ evocative original compositions which were imbued with a cinematic drama and drew inspiration from the likes of Wayne Shorter, Radiohead, Bjork, Meshell Ndegeocello, and more.
