Yulia Musayelyan - Unsaid (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Flutist Yulia Musayelyan’s “Unsaid” tastefully combines global folk traditions with her own ingenuity to leave an irrevocable mark on modern jazz.

NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. – Flutist and composer Yulia Musayelyan is truly a global citizen, and her music reflects this multiculturalism with a brilliance flowing from her respectful and masterful synthesis of international folk styles as she carries them forward into the fold of modern jazz. Unsaid documents a decade of learning, creating, and refining as Yulia and her music have grown to become a powerful voice that is far greater than the sum of their constituent parts.

Ten years passed since Yulia previously stepped into a recording studio as a bandleader. Unsaid, thus, is not simply a collection of music but an auditory history of Yulia’s growth and development as a musician over the course of a decade. The genesis of Unsaid begins with an opportunity: the prestigious Berklee College of Music, where Yulia is on faculty, awarded her with a week-long residency at Guilford Sound, a studio in Guilford, Vermont. The unique nature of this week-long residency provided an environment in which to create that was truly organic, allowing Yulia and her band to focus solely on their art, undistracted by the constraints of time, day-jobs, and finances. It was in this atmosphere of freedom that Unsaid came to life, and with it, a record was born that contains not only music but a microcosm of a true artist’s decade.

Unsaid, Yulia’s sophomore album and the album’s title track, draws on a duality of concept. The word “unsaid” refers to something that cannot be expressed through words, and thus another medium must be employed as a vehicle for the full weight of its emotional and intellectual content. Yulia describes it as “a fleeting feeling, an essence, though it remains verbally unsaid, is inevitably expressed through music”. On the other hand, it refers to something that cannot be removed or unsaid. “[The effect] remains,” Yulia says, “ and leaves a permanent mark.” It is this multiplicity of meaning that Yulia knowingly plays upon to reflect the ambiguous nature of music. Yulia’s goal with Unsaid is to communicate emotion through sound where words fail.

TRACKLIST

1. Yulia Musayelyan - Catch-22
2. Yulia Musayelyan - Finding Ana
3. Yulia Musayelyan - Unsaid
4. Yulia Musayelyan - Numbers
5. Yulia Musayelyan - Khnki Tsar
6. Yulia Musayelyan - Fevral
7. Yulia Musayelyan - New Age
8. Yulia Musayelyan - Tamzara
9. Yulia Musayelyan - Na Vulitse
10. Yulia Musayelyan - Tango Trece
11. Yulia Musayelyan - Na Gorushke, Na Gore
12. Yulia Musayelyan - Landscapes
13. Yulia Musayelyan - Chacarera del Descenso
14. Yulia Musayelyan - The Raven



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