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Song for May 07:28

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When Jasmine Lovell-Smith released her debut album, Fortune Songs, in 2012, she’d only recently moved to New York from her native New Zealand. In the years since, the saxophonist/composer has logged many more miles, moving first to Connecticut, where she studied under the legendary Anthony Braxton, and then to Morelia, Mexico, where she has absorbed the sounds of the local folk music along with chamber music and jazz.

All of those experiences and influences bear fruit on Yellow Red Blue, the second release by Lovell-Smith’s evocative quintet Towering Poppies. In keeping with the coloristic tenor of the album’s title, Lovell-Smith has widened the sonic palette of the band this time out; where Fortune Songs paired her soprano saxophone with trumpet, Yellow Red Blue substitutes the bass clarinet of Josh Sinton, leader of the adventurous band Ideal Bread. They’re joined by the versatile rhythm section of pianist Cat Toren, bassist Adam Hopkins, and drummer Kate Gentile. The core band is also supplemented on three tracks by the Morelia-based string quartet Cuarteto la Matraca.

Yellow Red Blue, due out November 4, retains the lyrical and song-like qualities of Towering Poppies’ debut while adding rich new layers and intriguing complexity. The album and its title tune borrow their name from a painting by Mark Rothko, an association that’s particularly suggestive: like the renowned Color Field painter, Lovell-Smith’s music consists of bold swaths of deceptively simple colors which gradually reveal the intensity and profundity of their depths and relationships.

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released November 4, 2016

Jasmine Lovell-Smith - soprano saxophone
Josh Sinton - bass clarinet
Cat Toren - piano
Adam Hopkins - bass
Kate Gentile - drums

With special guests Cuarteto la Matraca on tracks 3, 5 and 7
Elena Makhnev - violin, Raúl Moreno - violin, Rolando Vidal - viola & Jesús Gutiérrez - cello

All compositions by Jasmine Lovell-Smith (APRA) except 'I Had a King' by Joni Mitchell (Crazy Crow Music - ASCAP)

Produced by Jasmine Lovell-Smith
Recorded at Tedesco Studios by Tom Tedesco, April 11th 2015
Strings recorded by Eduardo Solís and Miguel López Vega at Conservatorio de las Rosas, July 29th and 30th 2015
Mixed by Pete Rende
Mastered by Nate Wood at Kerseboom Mastering
Art by Jasmine Lovell-Smith
Design by Celeste Jaime of Gráfica Alternativa

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Jasmine Lovell-Smith Wellington, New Zealand

Jasmine Lovell-Smith is a composer and saxophonist from Wellington, New Zealand who writes jazz and chamber music for a variety of ensembles. Jasmine spent a number of years in the US (NYC and CT) and Mexico before returning to New Zealand in 2017.

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