The Depths of Memory

by Kevin Sun

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1.	Frozen in Profile 03:47		buy track
2.	Interior Choruses 03:44		buy track
3.	From Some Unseen Center (I) 02:20		buy track
4.	Elliptical Blue 02:11		buy track
5.	Ghosts of Repetition 02:55		buy track
6.	From Some Unseen Center (II) 03:08		buy track
7.	Shadow Meridian 02:46		buy track
8.	Eponymous Cycle (I) 08:54		buy track
9.	Eponymous Cycle (II) 07:20		buy track
10.	Eponymous Cycle (III) 08:12		buy track
11.	Before Depths 06:19		buy track
12.	Depths I 01:28		buy track
13.	Depths II 01:46 video	info	buy track
14.	Depths III 02:59		buy track
15.	Depths IV 02:26		buy track
16.	Depths V 06:50		buy track
17.	Depths VI 05:22		buy track
18.	Depths VII 02:57		buy track
19.	After Depths 06:51		buy track

about

"The saxophonist Kevin Sun has been making his mark on the New York scene of late by way of studiousness and subtlety ... Sun has something original going on, too: his own feeling of loose coil and terse freedom, and a personal approach to disrupting time." — The New York Times

"Simple on its surface, with depths revealed to those who do the immersion, those who allow themselves to drift down the alley or ride the river's flow" — All About Jazz (★★★★☆, October 2023)

"...an overarching, exquisitely constructed work" — The NYC Jazz Record

"He dodges the crimes associated with protraction by shaping
the music around a parade of curt rambles. Things are always morph
ing in these thoughtful excursions; the action trickles along, each min
iature movement standing up for its own value" — DownBeat

"...an intriguingly delicate two-record jazz set" — Living to Listen

"...has a certain nostalgic glean to it but its modernism keeps it relevant ... while not a grandstanding big technique player at all Sun shows his versatility in surprising ways" — Marlbank

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Excerpt from the liner notes, by Harmony Holiday:

On this album we receive a future unobstructed by any goofy or heavy handed attempts to align with futurism™ or the glories of the past. The tones go on skipping and stammering with the bright optimism of a child, a cheerfulness that is hesitant to occupy itself and sometimes abandons itself for the pensive or macabre. The cognition between the notes and compositions is vivid and tangible, a nonlinear narrative about moving through territory you were told was dangerous but are compelled to witness and overcome for yourself...

...[Kevin] Sun has found the balance between the intellect, or improvisational music that teaches you how to think in new patterns, and the spirit, alighted by music that revokes your access to overthinking and forces you into a trance of the present moment. The frenzy that ensues is lighthearted and interrupted by soothe and swarm. Where I expect drama to be the driving energy of the compositions, I hear only delight, but an intense delight that I haven’t heard tonally since Clifford Jordan or Mingus. What I hear is triumph so obvious it probably frightens the composer into wondering if it’s a mirage. It is not.

This album is a secret world that any wise listener begins to feel beholden to by the final initiation as song. Great jazz music has always seduced its listeners by collapsing the distance between thought and feeling until a mood that can never be imitated outside of the universe of its players and their dynamic is formed. These worlds become ghost towns, the haunts that avid listeners tell had-to-be-there stories about to keep the circle unbroken. It is a privilege to be haunted by this exact music in this era that needs new ghosts.

credits

released October 27, 2023

Kevin Sun - tenor saxophone
Adam O’Farrill (tracks 8–19) - trumpet
Dana Saul - piano
Simón Willson - bass (tracks 1-10)
Walter Stinson - bass (tracks 11-19)
Matt Honor (tracks 1–7, 11-19) - drums
Dayeon Seok (track 8–10) - drums

“From All This Stillness” recorded by Nolan Thies at The Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, NY on May 26, 2022 · “Eponymous Cycle” recorded by Aaron Nevezie at The Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, NY on May 12, 2021 · “The Depths in Slow Motion” recorded by David Stoller at The Samurai Hotel, Astoria, NY on December 15, 2021 · Mixed by Juanma Trujillo · Mastered by Brent Lambert at The Kitchen Mastering · Produced by Kevin Sun, Jacob Shulman, Seymour Euge, and Walter Stinson · Photography by Kevin Sun · Design by Diane Zhou · Liner notes by Harmony Holiday · Total length: 1:22:25

All compositions by Kevin Sun (The Kevin Sun Music / ASCAP)

In loving memory of my grandfather, 孫國敏

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Kevin Sun New York

Kevin Sun is a saxophonist and composer living in New York City. His music has been called “...intense, harmonically virtuosic and compositionally complex" by DownBeat Magazine, and he has released five albums to date—most recently THE DEPTHS OF MEMORY in October 2023. ... more

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