℗ 2015 ECM Records GmbH under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
| Released | March 6, 2015 |
| Duration | 1h 08m 06s |
| Record Label | ECM Records |
| Genre | Jazz |
A Clear Midnight / Kurt Weill and America
Julia Hülsmann Quartet, Theo Bleckmann
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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1.1
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Mack The Knife
Julia Hülsmann Quartet; Theo Bleckmann |
4:31 | |||
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1.2
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Alabama Song
Julia Hülsmann Quartet |
4:07 | |||
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1.3
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Your Technique
Julia Hülsmann Quartet; Theo Bleckmann |
4:53 | |||
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1.4
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September Song
Julia Hülsmann Quartet; Theo Bleckmann |
6:50 | |||
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1.5
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This Is New
Julia Hülsmann Quartet; Theo Bleckmann |
5:32 | |||
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1.6
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River Chanty
Julia Hülsmann Quartet |
4:49 | |||
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1.7
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A Clear Midnight
Julia Hülsmann Quartet; Theo Bleckmann |
5:47 | |||
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1.8
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A Noisless Patient Spider
Julia Hülsmann Quartet; Theo Bleckmann |
7:03 | |||
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1.9
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Beat! Beat! Drums!
Julia Hülsmann Quartet; Theo Bleckmann |
4:19 | |||
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1.10
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Little Tin God
Julia Hülsmann Quartet; Theo Bleckmann |
6:38 | |||
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1.11
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Speak Low
Julia Hülsmann Quartet; Theo Bleckmann |
8:51 | |||
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1.12
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Great Big Sky
Julia Hülsmann Quartet; Theo Bleckmann |
4:46 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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"As fine a vocal jazz album as you’ll hear this year."
- TheJazzBreakfast.com
"... familiar tunes and lyrics are set adrift in strange and alien surroundings. It takes some getting used to if you know the originals, but after a while I found it curiously compelling."
- The Guardian
"The chemistry of Hülsmann's trio is inescapable ... it becomes clear the group's interpretive skills are as key to the freshness of its approach as the predetermined arrangements by almost everyone in the group ... her most fulfilling and fully realized yet."
- All About Jazz
Pianist Julia Hülsmann and singer Theo Bleckmann, in a first and long-awaited collaborative recording, celebrate the "unsung Weill" alongside the master’s most popular works including Mack The Knife, Speak Low and September Song as well as settings of Walt Whitman, with whom Kurt Weill felt an affinity. The project gained life on the road and was fine tuned for this studio recording, opening up new imaginative possibilities for the players. English trumpeter Tom Arthurs often doubles or underpins Bleckmann’s singing, adding new colour, sometimes surrounding the vocals with a halo of sound.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – ECM Records Studio Masters
Recorded June 2014 Rainbow Studio, Oslo Engineer: Jan Erik Kongshaug Cover photo: Caterina di Perri Liner photos: Volker Beushausen, Caterina di Perri (10/11) Design: Sascha Kleis Produced by Manfred Eicher
Recorded June 2014 Rainbow Studio, Oslo Engineer: Jan Erik Kongshaug Cover photo: Caterina di Perri Liner photos: Volker Beushausen, Caterina di Perri (10/11) Design: Sascha Kleis Produced by Manfred Eicher
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.11 -0.69 to 0.00 | -18.99 -21.49 to -17.28 | -16.15 -18.50 to -14.60 | 12 11 to 14 | |
| 1 | Mack The Knife | -0.40 | -21.49 | -18.5 | 13 |
| 2 | Alabama Song | -0.09 | -20.24 | -17.7 | 13 |
| 3 | Your Technique | -0.03 | -19.59 | -17.1 | 14 |
| 4 | September Song | -0.69 | -20.68 | -17.7 | 13 |
| 5 | This Is New | 0.00 | -17.91 | -15.0 | 12 |
| 6 | River Chanty | -0.06 | -18.76 | -15.8 | 13 |
| 7 | A Clear Midnight | 0.00 | -19.83 | -16.6 | 12 |
| 8 | A Noisless Patient Spider | 0.00 | -17.98 | -15.1 | 11 |
| 9 | Beat! Beat! Drums! | 0.00 | -17.81 | -15.1 | 11 |
| 10 | Little Tin God | 0.00 | -18.63 | -15.6 | 12 |
| 11 | Speak Low | 0.00 | -17.28 | -14.6 | 12 |
| 12 | Great Big Sky | 0.00 | -17.62 | -15.0 | 12 |