This Is Not a Miracle explained

This is Not a Miracle
Type:Album
Artist:Food
Cover:This_Is_Not_a_Miracle.jpg
Released:November 20, 2015
Recorded:June 2013
Studio:Holand Sound
Oslo, Norway
Genre:Jazz, Experimental
Length:47:26
Label:ECM
ECM 2417
Chronology:Food
Prev Title:Mercurial Balm
Prev Year:2012

This is Not a Miracle is an album by experimental group Food recorded in June 2013 and released on ECM in November 2015.[1]

Reception

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars and the review by Thom Jurek states "The album is the most groove-driven, performable, and accessible record in Food's catalog."

All About Jazz reviewers said, "expect the unexpected. Strønen's production process distills the band's improvisational flights into compact pieces—not quite conventional tunes, but almost"[2] and "This is Not a Miracle is not a miracle, in fact. What it is however, is another mindful collection of compositions that look at jazz music with an open mind and equally open process."[3]

The Guardian's John Fordham said "The album belongs more to Strønen than Food’s previous recordings, and it’s none the worse for that."[4]

PopMatters' John Garratt said "This Is Not a Miracle is the result of the heavy editing and thankfully the process has not diluted the power that Food have displayed in the past... Food, as usual, give us the tastiest of both worlds on another quiet winner that lives up to the ECM name."[5]

In JazzTimes, Steve Greenlee wrote "This Is Not a Miracle is dreamy, effervescent and constantly shifting—waves bobbing on oceans, tree limbs swaying in breezes. Rarely has the marriage of acoustic and electronic seemed so natural."[6]

The Observer selected it as one of the 10 Best Jazz albums of 2015 noting "these guys not only have an advanced creative aptitude in the slipstream between laptop technology and acoustic instrumentation, but an uncanny sense of groove to boot."[7]

Track listing

All compositions by Thomas Strønen.

  1. "First Sorrow" – 3:05
  2. "Where Dry Desert Ends" – 4:18
  3. "This Is Not a Miracle" – 4:08
  4. "The Concept of Density" – 2:55
  5. "Sinking Gardens of Babylon" – 4:22
  6. "Death of Niger" – 3:43
  7. "Exposed to Frost" – 3:27
  8. "Earthly Carriage" – 6:55
  9. "Age of Innocence – 4:27
  10. "The Grain Mill" – 4:59
  11. "Without the Laws" – 5:07

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://player.ecmrecords.com/food-2417 ECM discography
  2. Web site: Food: This Is Not a Miracle . Musical reviews . Mark . Sullivan . . November 18, 2015.
  3. Ackerman, K. All About Jazz Review, November 13, 2015
  4. Fordham, J., Food: This Is Not a Miracle review – tasty grooves, November 14, 2015
  5. Web site: Food: This Is Not a Miracle. popmatters.com. Garratt. John. December 2, 2015. September 14, 2016.
  6. Greenlee, S. JazzTimes Review, December 2015
  7. Hart, R. The 10 Best Jazz albums of 2015, The Observer, December 21, 2015

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