Tedeschi Trucks Band-I Am The Moon I Crescent-CD-FLAC-2022-FORSAKEN

                     FORSAKEN Proudly Presents              
    Artist      : Tedeschi Trucks Band                              
   Album       : I Am the Moon: I. Crescent                        
    Label       : Fantasy Records                                    
    Genre       : Rock                                               
    Source      : CD                                                 
    Street Date : 2022-06-03                                         
   Quality     : 847 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels                   
    Encoder     : FLAC 1.3.1                                        
     Size        : 224.35 MB                                          
     Time        : 35:07 min                                          
    Url         : http://allmusic.com/album/release/i-am-the-moon-i 
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  1.  Hear My Dear                                                   5:34 
  2.  Fall In                                                        5:48 
  3.  I Am The Moon                                                  5:14 
  4.  Circles 'Round The Sun                                         6:16 
  5.  Pasaquan                                                      12:15 
     I Am the Moon: I. Crescent is the first chapter in the Tedeschi    
     Trucks Band's ambitious four-album cycle. In total, the project    
     contains 24 songs spread over more than two hours and will be      
     released in parts over several months. Each entry is accompanied   
     by its own glorious film by documentary director and creative      
     arts polymath Alix Lambert. It is a modern musical interpretation  
     of The Story of Layla and Majnun, an epic 12th century Sufi poem   
     written by Nizami Ganjavi about star-crossed lovers. Its themes    
     explore interpersonal relationships, spirituality, frustrated      
     desire, and the search for transcendence. The poem inspired Derek  
     and the Dominos' Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. So           
     important is the album to TTB, they performed it at the 2019       
     LOCKN' Festival. During 2020's COVID-19 lockdown, singer Mike      
     Mattison read the poem and asked the band to consider its          
     narrative themes as songwriters. Their writing centered on Layla   
     being as "unattainable as the moon" and placed on a pedestal.      
     "What would Layla have to say about all this?" became the album's  
     m.o.                                                               
     Opener "Hear My Dear" is a midtempo ballad featuring twinned       
     guitars, simmering organ, and lilting percussion over wordless     
     backing vocals and horns. Susan Tedeschi sings "As we watch the    
     world go by/There's so much we search to find/Holdin on to         
     memories gone away...I was lost in the wilderness/That's where I   
     heard a song." Derek Trucks' slide appends the verse, playing      
     sweet and tender. Mattison sings the celebratory "Fall In." Piano  
     and slide guitar exchange accents in the foreground as handclaps   
     and a snare/hi-hat shuffle frame his vocal. Horns punctuate the    
     sung lines as the tune morphs into a New Orleans R&B feel while    
     flirting with gospel. Tedeschi and keyboardist Gabe Dixon offer    
     "I Am the Moon" as a moving, spiritually insightful dialogue       
     between lovers, asking poignant questions with generosity and      
     insight. The band emerges gradually but ratchets up the musical    
     energy to anthemic intensity as horns, slide guitar, and drums     
     wind around them in a swirling frame. Trucks intros "Circles       
     'Round the Sun" in a raga-esque drone before horns, bass, and      
     drum kit follow. Keyboards buoy Tedeschi's vocal, which maintains  
     tension between soul, blues, and rock. When she sings "Do you      
     know my name? Can you save me from this love?" it's a desperate    
     prayer underscored by thunderous horns, funky clavinet, and        
     killer sax and trumpet solos. The 12-minute closer, "Pasaquan,"    
     is an instrumental epic. It flows around a funky organ vamp        
     before unwinding in an orgy of exploratory jazz, swamp rock        
     post-psychedelia, and jam band groove. At the nine-minute mark,    
     Trucks' solo alternately references the Allman Brothers'           
     "Mountain Jam, Jessica" and Jimi Hendrix's "Third Stone from the   
     Sun" before making room for solos by others. He returns, carrying  
     it out with another stirring solo. I Am the Moon: I. Crescent is   
     dazzling in concept and execution. Tedeschi Trucks Band embrace    
     this narrative with ambition, and expose its lessons with          
     creative imagination, emotionally intelligent songwriting, and     
     mind-blowing musicality.                                           

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