{"product_id":"zoh-amba-sun-lp","title":"Zoh Amba - Sun LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRELEASE DATE: 8\/22\/2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSun is the first album by Tennessee native and baritone saxophonist Zoh Amba for the Oslo-based imprint Smalltown Supersound - and her second album following 2022's Oh Sun on Tzadik label.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn Sun, Amba introduces a newly assembled group with a set of compositions that blur the line between performance and process - where both the music and the act of capturing it unfold in real time, guided in part by improvisational recording techniques. As a bandleader, Amba navigates the edges of an improvisational \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edelta, where spiritual jazz and free folk emerge not as separate genres, but as tributaries of the same current, each flowing from a shared belief in music as a sacred force. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe decision to release Sun on Smalltown Supersound was born from a common connection to the late German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, who was both a spiritual mentor to Amba and released several records on the label. And while the album is rooted in American folk traditions, it's Brötzmann's fearless spirit - itself an immense historical catalyst for European free jazz - that runs like a current through the ensemble's musical collaboration and it's experimental recording techniques. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Amba however, it was important that the ensemble - consisting of Caroline Morton (bass), Lex Korton (piano), Miguel Marcel Russel (percussion) - establish deeper musical connection before the recording process took place: \"We spent days just playing together, and I was trying to mentally take notes of what naturally wanted to exist in this band - before giving instructions or handing out sheet music. I wanted to see where we were all standing in life, right at that moment. From there, I started carving out the process with them. That's how the structure of the band and the approach to the record came about.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/track=4232788234\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smalltown Supersound","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68021499166968,"sku":"oww1794078093613","price":15.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/5518\/2072\/files\/zoh-amba---sun-lp_1.jpg?v=1794078099","url":"https:\/\/dogpoolfloat.shop\/products\/zoh-amba-sun-lp","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}