The music of Bill Frisell's latest release, Disfarmer, was inspired by the work of 20th-century Arkansas photographer Mike Disfarmer. Jazz Times finds the imagery and music to be well matched, the songs "a collective act of the imagination that comes close to deciphering Disfarmer’s mystery." The albums is "one of Frisell’s most accessible," says the magazine, its music both "old and new, rich in common history, and beyond genre."
"Encountering Disfarmer’s indelible human images for the first time is a disturbing yet uplifting experience," Jazz Times's Thomas Conrad writes of the work of 20th-century Arkansas photographer Mike Disfarmer. It was these images, and perhaps just such an experience, that inspired Bill Frisell to write the music of Disfarmer, his most recent Nonesuch release, which features a number of these haunting photographs in the album packaging as well.
Conrad, in his review of the album for Jazz Times, finds the imagery and music to be well matched. He describes Frisell's compositions here as "musical miniatures as stark and unexplained as Disfarmer’s photographs," "music in praise of the deep silence" found in the photos, and "a collective act of the imagination that comes close to deciphering Disfarmer’s mystery."
The reviewer finds Disfarmer to be "one of Frisell’s most accessible albums," its songs both "old and new, rich in common history, and beyond genre."
Read the complete review at jazztimes.com.
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