Funky, Chilled Medina
- 29 Oct 07, 09:49 AM
My Monday morning anxieties have been eased by a fine album called ΅®Medina΅―. The author is , a guitarist from east Belfast who specialises in acoustic jazz with audacious spaces, beautiful meditations and Arabic tones. This is his third album that I know of, and I can happily vouch for the salve of ΅®Uncharted Territories΅― and ΅®A Season Of Rainbows΅―.
In the real world, I might be concerned about the tax returns, the politics of a family Xmas or the mind-bending complications of working from three different office spaces each day. But for now, McMordie is stretching time, never sweating the petty stuff and searching for the sublime. For someone who knows little about jazz, his record sounds like a North African ΅®Sketches Of Spain΅―. He΅―s looking for a tone, a motif and a connection. The legendary Davey Graham was one of the first to explore the potential between Arabic scales and acoustic guitar, and Paul seems keen to further the story.
Accompanied by Alan Niblock on double bass, Paul recorded the ΅®Medina΅― project at Rainbow Studio is Oslo. In this spacey environment, the pair are riffing and conversing, setting their creative compass for the road to Marrakech.
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