Until The Darkness Fades, by Chris Joris

Until The Darkness Fades

by Chris Joris

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1.	Portrait Of A Man 10:36	buy track
2.	The Sky 01:59	buy track
3.	June 25 04:00	buy track
4.	Encounter 1 03:27	buy track
5.	Childhood 02:02	buy track
6.	Piano Reflections 04:23	buy track
7.	Naima's Dream (Portrait Of A Father) 07:54	buy track
8.	Night 01:49	buy track
9.	Encounter 2 00:55	buy track
10.	The Call 02:46	buy track
11.	Walking 02:42	buy track
12.	Dear Wreck (ft. Naïma Joris) 02:42	buy track

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Belgian jazz veterans W.E.R.F. records and JazzLab are celebrating their 30th anniversary together with three unique creation projects for which they are joining forces. One of them is with percussionist Chris Joris, a veteran of Belgian jazz who is releasing a haunting new project.
Until the Darkness Fades' immediately says something about Chris Joris' career path, in which the musical and the personal invariably overlap. This percussionist has written one of the most colorful chapters of Belgian jazz. For many years he was active within various genres, but is now mostly praised as the percussionist who constantly demolished boundaries. Not only between all those oppressive genre boxes - pop, experiment, theater, world music, jazz - but also between complete worlds.

Chris Joris was playing "world jazz" long before there was that term, and he signed on for some hot-blooded jazz classics, with "Out Of The Night" perhaps the best-known example. That album was originally released in 2003, was then unavailable for years, but is back on shelves in 2023 and on vinyl for the first time. And rightfully so. Joris also eagerly seized the prospect of a new tour and a brand new album for a musical self-portrait. With "Until the Darkness Fades," he highlights different aspects of his musical identity, both expected and unexpected.

Joris composed new material, but also keeps a prominent place for free improvisation. It will be a tantalizing dichotomy full of hybrid sounds, with familiar and less familiar sounds, between romanticism and uninhibited adventure. He explores these in the presence of notable associates on violin and cello. In this way, he combines earthy percussion with the freedom of jazz and the elegance of chamber music. Discover this story of a Belgian master who is far from finished.

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released September 8, 2023

All compositions by Chris Joris except 'Portrait Of A Man' by Chris Mentens.

Chris Joris: percussion, berimbau, likembé and piano
Cécile Broché: violin
Sigrid Vandenbogaerde: cello
Guest: Naïma Joris: saxophone, electronics, vocals

Recorded live on September 30th 2022 at Kunstencentrum NONA, Mechelen.
Mixed and mastered by Vincent De Bast at Sonar Studios
Lay-out & design: Marijke Deweerdt
Cover photo by Tatiana De Munck
Executive production by Benny Claeysier for KAAP / W.E.R.F. records
(P) W.E.R.F. records (C) Chris Joris 2023

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