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- Summary: The fourth full-length release from Brazilian jazz pianist was inspired by the sounds of the Amazon and features contributions from Hamid Drake, Shabaka Hutchings, Jeff Parker, Aniel Someillan, and Brandee Younger.
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- Record Label: Psychic Hotline
- Genre(s): Jazz, Post-Bop, Global Jazz, Brazilian Jazz
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Mar 1, 2024Y’Y a singular meditation on ancestral history, environmental awareness and spiritual devotion, is wide ranging, complex, and in places, quite mysterious. It is also utterly compelling.
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Mar 1, 2024It has the power to give you these little, unexpected, rushes enabling you to fall utterly for this intricate, complex, but captivating album.
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UncutMar 1, 2024A voyage in time and space - exploring the Amazon rainforest and transversing the African Diaspora. [Apr 2024, p.32]
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Mar 1, 2024Y’Y finds Freitas at his most wide-ranging, embodying soft natural ambience as well as dramatic action on the piano. It is an album of mood music that refuses to settle, leaving the listener moved and invigorated.
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Mar 12, 2024Like John Coltrane, Freitas has learned how to approach his compositions with the same confident, wildly adventurous spirit he brings to his instrument. In doing so, he’s left behind some of the accessibility of his early records, but in its place, he’s forged something transcendent.
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MojoApr 23, 2024Y'Y shows his fluid piano technique - a hard to quantify mix of Monk, Ibrahim, Corea and Shipp - let loose on looping patterns that trace ever more surprising arcs and mood variations. [Jun 2024, p.88]
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Mar 8, 2024Y’Y has its lovely moments, but it wallows sometimes in woo-woo-y mysticism. It’s a bit soft and cushiony, hard edges sanded down to harmless auras.