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August 16, 2024 (Honolulu, Hawaii):
All Of the Colours Are Singing from guitarist/composer Jessica Ackerley is out now digitally & on limited-run vinyl.
“Recorded two years ago in the Manoa Valley, of Hawai'i, this album is a vivid and introspective reflection of transition, grief, and new beginnings. The statement effort straddles the borders between my deep love for experimental jazz, ambient and contemporary classical music.” - Jessica Ackerley
All Of the Colours Are Singing from guitarist/composer Jessica Ackerley is out now digitally & on limited-run vinyl.
“Recorded two years ago in the Manoa Valley, of Hawai'i, this album is a vivid and introspective reflection of transition, grief, and new beginnings. The statement effort straddles the borders between my deep love for experimental jazz, ambient and contemporary classical music.” - Jessica Ackerley
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“We hear variations on the watercolour Americana of Bill Frisell, the sudden swerves of Mary Halvorson, and the post-bop freedom of Joe Morris… still, it never feels like Ackerley is trying on hats; a singular compositional voice is manifest at all times”
“We hear variations on the watercolour Americana of Bill Frisell, the sudden swerves of Mary Halvorson, and the post-bop freedom of Joe Morris… still, it never feels like Ackerley is trying on hats; a singular compositional voice is manifest at all times”
The Wire
"perhaps her most well-balanced album to date, as well as her most uncompromising." KLOF Mag
"the way Ackerley blends mood-based textures with a sturdy compositional foundation and improvisational energies is seamless and in turn, pretty miraculous" The Vinyl District
"Boundaries are crossed and blurred with this ensemble on an album of varying beauty and wilder improvisations; an album in which subtle sensibilities are comfortably followed by challenging free expressions of fusion and freeform progressive jazz" Monolith Cocktail
"perhaps her most well-balanced album to date, as well as her most uncompromising." KLOF Mag
"the way Ackerley blends mood-based textures with a sturdy compositional foundation and improvisational energies is seamless and in turn, pretty miraculous" The Vinyl District
"Boundaries are crossed and blurred with this ensemble on an album of varying beauty and wilder improvisations; an album in which subtle sensibilities are comfortably followed by challenging free expressions of fusion and freeform progressive jazz" Monolith Cocktail
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Jessica Ackerley - electric guitar and compositions
Walter Stinson - upright bass
Aaron Edgcomb - drums
Concetta Abatte - violin 1, violin 2 and viola (tracks 1, 4, 6, and 7)
Recorded by Pierre Grill in Manoa Valley, O’ahu, Hawai’i
(the unceded territory of the Kanaka Maoli) October 2022.
Mixed by Andrya Ambro
Mastered by Alan F. Jones
Front cover photo by Anabelle Ellwein
Back cover painting by Jessica Ackerley
Design & Layout by Francie Chang
Walter Stinson - upright bass
Aaron Edgcomb - drums
Concetta Abatte - violin 1, violin 2 and viola (tracks 1, 4, 6, and 7)
Recorded by Pierre Grill in Manoa Valley, O’ahu, Hawai’i
(the unceded territory of the Kanaka Maoli) October 2022.
Mixed by Andrya Ambro
Mastered by Alan F. Jones
Front cover photo by Anabelle Ellwein
Back cover painting by Jessica Ackerley
Design & Layout by Francie Chang