|
|
艺人：尼尔斯·库格尔曼（Nils Kugelmann）、卢卡·赞比托（Luca Zambito）、塞巴斯蒂安·沃尔夫格鲁伯（Sebastian Wolfgruber）
专辑名：《生命乐章》（Life Score）
发行年份：2025年
厂牌：ACT音乐公司（ACT Music）
音乐类型：爵士乐
音质：FLAC（分轨）/ 24比特-96千赫兹FLAC（分轨+小册子）
总时长：42分57秒
总大小：264兆字节（FLAC分轨）/ 842兆字节（24比特-96千赫兹FLAC分轨+小册子）
网站：专辑预览
曲目列表：
1. 《美好的一天》（A Good Day）（4分53秒）
2. 《海龟与鸡尾酒》（Turtles and Cocktails）（5分11秒）
3. 《雨中咖啡》（Coffee in the Rain）（3分41秒）
4. 《生命乐章》（Life Score）（4分47秒）
5. 《巨龙未说出口的梦想》（The Unspoken Dreams of a Dragon）（4分47秒）
6. 《等待你的爱人》（Waiting for Your Loved Ones）（4分29秒）
7. 《鼓掌与舞蹈》（Clap and Dance）（3分55秒）
8. 《关键时刻》（Key Moment）（5分27秒）
9. 《暗光》（Dark Light）（5分51秒）
尼尔斯·库格尔曼喜欢讲故事。这一点从他作品的标题中可以明显看出……从他在音乐会上介绍作品时的讲述方式中也能看出……当然，从音乐本身更能感受到。这位现居柏林的贝斯手、作曲家兼乐队领队表示：“对我而言，在音乐与故事、情感和情境之间建立联系是非常重要的。在音乐会上，我会有意识地与观众交流，并详细讲述每一首作品的背景。这是我喜欢做的事情。我很难想象在舞台上表演音乐却没有这种交流。” 然而，最重要的是，尼尔斯·库格尔曼演奏和创作的音乐充满了真实的紧迫感、强大的能量和催眠般的力量。作为一名艺术家，他以一种德国30岁以下的其他贝斯手都未曾有过的方式实现了突破，尤其是他将自己的乐器作为音乐核心特色的方式。2022年，库格尔曼一完成硕士学业，就在ACT音乐公司推出了他的首张专辑《暴风雨之美》（Stormy Beauty）。德国媒体称他为 “贝斯狂战士” 和 “超级天才”。随后，他理所当然地获得了各种奖项，举办的音乐会门票也全部售罄。库格尔曼有一个核心三重奏乐队，但除此之外，他还能自由地在自己喜欢的情境和风格中演奏—— 首先是与钢琴家兼作曲家舒滕·额尔德内巴特尔（Shuteen Erdenebaatar）组成的二重奏和四重奏。
库格尔曼的音乐个性具有多面性，而他与钢琴家卢卡·赞比托和鼓手塞巴斯蒂安·沃尔夫格鲁伯组成的三重奏乐队为他提供了表达这种个性的自由。《生命乐章》在很多方面是该乐队及其领队特质的进一步发展和凝练。库格尔曼回忆道：“我们的首张专辑是在新冠疫情期间发行的。我们几乎没有机会进行现场演出，而录音室录制是我们首次真正有机会尝试这些作品。而《生命乐章》则完全不同。我们现在已经举办了很多场音乐会，作为一个三重奏乐队，我们共同成长，关系也更加紧密。这些作品看起来更加紧凑和具体。”
ACT音乐公司的首席执行官兼制作人安德烈亚斯·布兰迪斯（Andreas Brandis）在其中发挥了重要作用。这个三重奏乐队在多场现场音乐会上对尼尔斯·库格尔曼创作的新曲目进行了试演。随后，他们就曲目的选择、编排、音效和动态进行了深入的集体讨论。这意味着这个三重奏乐队能够做好充分准备进入录音室，并与他们的制作人一起专注于细节，为专辑找到这些曲目的理想版本。安德烈亚斯·布兰迪斯说：“尼尔斯·库格尔曼不仅是一位令人惊叹的贝斯手，最重要的是，他还是一位伟大的歌曲创作者。正是因为他的音乐如此简洁且朗朗上口，所以将这些作品精简到其精髓部分是很重要的。”
这张专辑中的所有作品都具有电影般的质感，它们就像是关于作品主角生活的短片。这些 “生命乐章” 的灵感既来源于巡演中的经历，比如参观加拉帕戈斯群岛，也来源于温暖夏夜所激发的情绪、夜晚的气息，或是无与伦比的爱情体验。这些故事体现在作品中，体现在清晰而生动的旋律里，体现在这个音色和谐统一的三重奏乐队那富有韵律、流畅的节奏中，也体现在旋律音乐的自然感之中。因为尼尔斯·库格尔曼不仅想要讲述故事，他还希望自己的音乐能够被广大听众以及他同代的听众听到并理解。
《生命乐章》是一张复杂而迷人的蓝图，向我们展示了一种新型的、如同电影般的Z世代爵士乐。
这是充满感染力的节奏、朗朗上口的旋律以及电影般强烈氛围的21世纪爵士乐。
演奏人员：
尼尔斯·库格尔曼，双贝斯
卢卡·赞比托，钢琴
塞巴斯蒂安·沃尔夫格鲁伯，鼓
由克劳斯·舍尔曼（Klaus Scheuermann）于2024年9月24日至25日在德国柏林的Soundfabrik录音室录制
由克劳斯·舍尔曼混音和制作母带
封面艺术作品：由贝恩德·齐默（Bernd Zimmer）创作的《宇宙》（“Cosmos”），2003年
Artist: Nils Kugelmann, Luca Zambito, Sebastian Wolfgruber
Title: Life Score
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: ACT Music
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-96kHz FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 42:57
Total Size: 264 / 842 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
1. A Good Day (4:53)
2. Turtles and Cocktails (5:11)
3. Coffee in the Rain (3:41)
4. Life Score (4:47)
5. The Unspoken Dreams of a Dragon (4:47)
6. Waiting for Your Loved Ones (4:29)
7. Clap and Dance (3:55)
8. Key Moment (5:27)
9. Dark Light (5:51)
Nils Kugelmann likes telling stories. That much is clear from the titles of his compositions...from the way he talks when he introduces them at concerts...and – naturally – from the music itself. ‘For me, making the connection between music and stories, feelings and situations is so important,’ says the bassist/ composer/ bandleader, now based in Berlin. ‘At concerts I consciously talk to the audience and go into the background of each piece in some detail. It’s something I enjoy. I can hardly imagine presenting music on stage without having this kind of communication.’ Above all, however, the music which Nils Kugelmann plays and composes has real urgency, strong energy and hypnotic power. As an artist he has broken through in a way that no other double bassist of the under-30 generation in Germany has done, in particular his way of making his instrument the central feature of his music. Immediately after completing his master's degree in 2022, Kugelmann launched his debut album ‘Stormy Beauty’ on ACT. German media called him a ‘bass berserker’ and a ‘mega-talent.’ Awards, sold-out concerts duly followed. Kugelmann has a core trio, but beyond that he is free to play in the contexts and styles he likes – first and foremost in a duo and quartet with pianist and composer Shuteen Erdenebaatar.
There are so many dimensions to Kugelmann’s musical personality, something which the trio he leads with pianist Luca Zambito and drummer Sebastian Wolfgruber gives him the freedom to express. ‘Life Score’ is in many ways a further development and concentration of the qualities of the band and its leader. ‘Our first album was still from the Corona period. We hardly had a chance to play live and the studio recordings were the first real opportunity to try out the pieces,’ Kugelmann recalls. ‘With ”Life Score’ it's completely different. We have now played a lot of concerts and as a trio we have grown together and got closer. The pieces seem much more compact and concrete.’
ACT CEO and producer Andreas Brandis has played a significant role in this. The trio did try-outs of the new repertoire written by Nils Kugelmann over the course of several live concerts. This was followed by intensive, collective discussions about the selection of pieces, arrangements, sound and dynamics. This meant that the trio was able to go into the studio perfectly prepared and, together with their producer, concentrate on the finer details and find the ideal versions of the pieces for the album. Andreas Brandis says: ‘Nils Kugelmann is not only an incredible bassist, but above all a great songwriter. And precisely because his music is so concise and catchy, it was important to reduce the pieces to their essence.’
All the compositions on the album have a cinematic quality, they are like short films about the lives of their protagonists. These ‘life scores’ draw inspiration from experiences on tour, such as a visit to the Galapagos Islands, but also from moods inspired by balmy summer evenings, the scent of the night, or the incomparable experience of love. These stories are there compositions, in clear, present melodies, in the groovy, flowing rhythm of a homogenous-sounding trio and also in the naturalness of melodic music. Because Nils Kugelmann not only wants to tell stories. He also wants to be heard and understood – by a broad audience and also by listeners of his own generation.
‘Life Score’ is a complex and captivating blueprint, showing us a new kind of film-like Gen Z jazz.
21st-century-jazz full of infectious grooves, catchy melodies and cinematic intensity.
Nils Kugelmann, double bass
Luca Zambito, piano
Sebastian Wolfgruber, drums
Recorded by Klaus Scheuermann, on September 24–25, 2024,
at Soundfabrik in Berlin, Germany
Mixed and mastered by Klaus Scheuermann
Cover art by Bernd Zimmer, “Cosmos”, 2003
|
|
发表于 2025-5-3 07:56:37