Live in Jura

Description

We Release JAZZ is very happy to announce the limited vinyl edition of Ill
Considered’s transcendent new live album Live in Jura, an expansive document of
the trio’s 2023 performance at Spiegelberg Festival – now
available as a double LP with a bonus D-side, housed in a heavyweight sleeve with
obi and an original artwork by Vincent de Boer.
Captured in the heights of Saignelégier, Switzerland, in the middle of a pasture
overlooking the Jura mountains, Live in Jura bottles the singular Ill Considered live
experience at its most open, responsive, and
elemental. From Idris Rahman (sax, flute), Liran Donin (bass), and Emre Ramazanoglu
(drums), this is deep free improv built from intuition and heart – an ever-evolving
conversation of groove, texture, and spirit.
Whispered motifs bloom into towering climaxes; earthy bass surges meet
shimmering cymbal work; woodwind lines move from meditative invocation to
ecstatic release. It is music shaped by the audience, the
environment, and the moment : alive, unrepeatable, and deeply organic.
The bonus D-side extends the album’s world with a unique ambient composition
made from field-recorded organic sounds of the forest surrounding the concert area.
Re-composed into a drifting, luminous piece, it features The Voices of the Alpenglow,
blurring the boundary between performance and landscape, human gesture and
elemental presence.
Ill Considered – known for forging improvised music around simple themes or
spontaneously created structures – here reach a new level of sensitivity and power.
Live in Jura follows We Release JAZZ’s release of Shoals by Ill Considered members
Earth and Bones, continuing a line of exploratory, heart-forward music grounded in
profound listening and spontaneous creation.