Label: Winter & Winter
Recorded at Systems Two Studio,
Brooklyn, New York in May 1987
Jazz
When Cassandra Wilson entered the scene with her first album Point Of View in the beginning of 1986, the singer with the characteristic timbre already did an important step into her international career. Now she introduces her second album.
"Point Of View for me was dark, for most parts the mood is almost eerie", says the 31-year old Cassandra Wilson (who moved from Mississippi to the Hudson six years ago) about her highly regarded debut.
Days Aweigh - a fine contrast to Cassandra Wilson's first recording :
It' s a start to a brand new day as the sun rises up. It spreads its light throughout the land and fills you up with joy.
A colorful panorama, a vista of the stylistic and vocalistic flexibility of the singer, who writes a big part of lyrics, music and arrangements by herself. "A lot of my ideas come from dreams. Sometimes I wake up and connect things that happen in dreams. And then a line might come out. I start off and think about it rhythmically, to make it flow and how to structure it, that it makes sense within itself. And then the music comes as a result of that. Sometimes the rhythm tells you to send secret messages."
On Days Aweigh it was her concept to combine electric and acoustic instrumentation, says Cassandra Wilson. She is presenting swinging standards and originals. Whatever Cassandra Wilson sings, she always puts her remarkable phrasing on a senseful level - even her talent to use her voice instrumentally is never exaggerated. "Instead of being a voice, many singers are trying to imitate a horn, which is kind of backwards from the way it started out. I mean, initially the hornplayers were interested to get close to the human voice and now it's turning around. The human voice is trying to get close to the instrument."
Cassandra Wilson is a voice.
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Mark Johnson- Drums
Kenny Davis- Double Bass, Bass (Acoustic)
Jean-Paul Bourelly- Guitar (Electric)
Graham Haynes- Trumpet
Olu Dara- Cornet, Vocals
Kevin Bruce Harris:Bass (Electric)
Steve Coleman:Sax (Alto)
Rod Williams:Synthesizer, Piano
Cassandra Wilson:Vocals
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01. Electromagnolia (Olu Dara) 4:45
02. Let's Face The Music (Irving Berlin) 2:31
03. Days Aweigh (Jean-Paul Bourelly) 3:27
04. Subatomic Blues (Cassandra Wilson) 4:35
05. Apricots On Their Wings (Henry Threadgill) 5:49
06. If You Know How (Cassandra Wilson) 5:08
07. You Belong To You (Cassandra Wilson) 4:55
08. Some Other Time (Leonard Bernstein/Betty Comden/Adolp Green) 5:12
09. Black And Yellow (Rod Williams) 5:38
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