On May 15, 2023, Spanish jazz blog La Habitación del Jazz reviewed Life & Umbrella by Javier Red’s Imagery Converter, released three days earlier.
What La Habitación del Jazz wrote
El disco es extenso e intenso, duro, árido, música desordenadamente ordenada, libre de sentimentalismos y llena de crudeza y realismo pero sobre todo esperanzadora. (…) Un disco conceptualmente bello por lo que transmite. (“The album is long and intense, hard, arid, music in disorderly order, free of sentimentality and full of rawness and realism, but above all hopeful. A conceptually beautiful album for what it conveys.”)
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The La Habitación del Jazz review
The review presents the twelve tracks and the line-up, Javier Red (piano), Gustavo Cortiñas (drums), Jake Wark (tenor saxophone) and Ben Dillinger (double bass), and describes compositions free from known or recognizable meters, complex and to some extent disconcerting.
Read the review on La Habitación del Jazz
About Life & Umbrella
Life & Umbrella · Javier Red’s Imagery Converter · Desafio Candente Records, 12 May 2023. Twelve compositions by Javier Red that describe the emotions, inner world and daily life of an autistic child, and how parents experience it. Javier Red (piano), Jake Wark (tenor saxophone), Ben Dillinger (bass), Gustavo Cortiñas (drums). Artwork by Carmen Chami.
