{"title":"Sam Gendel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSam Gendel is a musician and producer based in Los Angeles, CA. He is widely recognized for his exceptional skills on the saxophone, although he is also proficient on various other instruments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a passion for music that spans across genres, Sam Gendel has established himself as a versatile artist. His unique sound and innovative approach to composition have captivated audiences worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether performing live or creating studio recordings, Sam's talent shines through in every project he undertakes. His dedication to his craft and relentless pursuit of musical excellence make him a true force to be reckoned with in the industry.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-room-6","title":"The Room","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Room\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of folkloric pieces from various regions around South America, as interpreted by Fabiano do Nascimento and Sam Gendel, on 7-string nylon guitar and soprano saxophone, respectively. Presented with purity and focus, soaring and lamenting, this album presents a unique journey through lesser-known musical landscapes and traditions stretching from Argentina to the Amazon. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSam Gendal, the Californian saxophonist – perhaps best-known for his thoughtful collaborations with Moses Sumney and bassist Sam Wilkes – has long been honing slippery improvisations, pitch-bending his harmonies and sliding over rhythms. 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At points melodic and cartoonish and at others glitching and somewhat unnerving, it’s a visual work and instrumental album rooted in a strange in-between, in a shadowy and vivid chasm between terrestrial and otherworldly. A puzzle that doesn’t ask to be completed, but invites you to play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCytrynowicz and Gendel have been consistent collaborators since 2020, with Cytrynowicz providing photography as well as music videos and visuals, including for Gendel’s DRM and their AE-30 documentary, and with Gendel contributing snippet scores to her own short-form video work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAudiobook\u003c\/i\u003e is the meeting of something distinctly analog weaving into a soundscape that could be at home in a 90s sci-fi soundtrack, the parallel play of a visual artist and prolific musician, abstract art and sound reaching out to touch. “It’s the sound of us just individually trusting ourselves, and then aligning the two together and letting them meet, and also trusting in that,” Gendel says. “I don’t think about it that directly, though – this isn't art inspired by art. 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Comprising predominantly solo works, contributing players on select tracks include Carlos Niño, Jamire Williams, Daniel Aged, Gabe Noel, and Philippe Melanson. This 2LP edition was specifically curated by Sam Gendel to highlight Fresh Bread moments across two LPs, and includes 18 of the 52 tracks from the digital release, at a total runtime of 1hr 24 minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leaving Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50406765986123,"sku":"2023901","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Sam-Gendel-Fresh-Bread_c22dc619_thumbnail_4096.webp?v=1726590564"},{"product_id":"blueblue","title":"blueblue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eblueblue\u003c\/i\u003e is the latest full-length from multi-instrumentalist and all-around vibe wizard, Sam Gendel. The record, out via Leaving Records, is a concise, tightly wound song suite whose 14 tracks each correspond to a pattern within sashiko, a traditional style of Japanese embroidery. This conceit remains playfully ambiguous — to what extent, if at all, is Kagome (woven bamboo) meant to evoke the pattern of the same name, for example? But there is an intuitive sense, throughout \u003ci\u003eblueblue\u003c\/i\u003e, that Gendel has, in this instance, narrowed his focus. To say that \u003ci\u003eblueblue\u003c\/i\u003e feels richly textural might be a little on-the-nose, thematically, but alas…it does. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is an intimacy, a humility, and a strength at play here that typifies the work of a master craftsman. Only an artist could make it sound so effortless. A Los Angeleno by way of Central CA, Gendel is by now an institution. Across a dizzying slate of solo releases and collaborations, he has amassed a reputation for not only virtuosic musicianship (primarily as a saxophonist, though the songs that would become blueblue were all initially composed on guitar), but also for his mercurial and prolific output — a corpus of work, which, while obviously indebted to jazz and hip hop (and the farther flung, experimental corners of both) is, in a word, unpindownable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bulk of \u003ci\u003eblueblue\u003c\/i\u003e was recorded in isolation in a makeshift studio built in a cabin floating atop a tributary of Oregon’s Columbia River. Having sketched out a set of guitar melodies, Gendel recorded the album in five-or-so weeks, during which time he became well-acquainted with the river’s tidal rise and fall. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis organic rhythm, which daily lifted the house to meet the horizon, later setting it down gently upon the riverbed, permeates \u003ci\u003eblueblue\u003c\/i\u003e is a conceptually sound, mesmerizing, evocative, and sonically idiosyncratic LP. 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The album features three musicians — Gendel on saxophone, Gabe Noel on electric bass, and Philippe Melanson on electronic percussion — engaging in simultaneous synchronized sonic construction\/deconstruction of jazz standards, including Miles Davis’ \u003ci\u003eFreddie Freeloader\u003c\/i\u003e, Charles Mingus’ \u003ci\u003eGoodbye Pork Pie Hat\u003c\/i\u003e, and Duke Ellington’s \u003ci\u003eSatin Doll\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSam Gendel is a musician and producer living in Los Angeles, CA. He is most known for his work with the saxophone, though he is proficient on multiple instruments. His work is diverse and includes significant collaborations with a wide range of artists including Ry Cooder, Blake Mills, Sam Amidon, Perfume Genius, Moses Sumney, Knower, Vampire Weekend, and inc. no world. 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While \u003ci\u003eSatin Doll\u003c\/i\u003e was a futuristic homage to classic jazz, \u003ci\u003eDRM\u003c\/i\u003e includes just one cover song: Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’, which Gendel interprets as an instrumental, playing the melody on an old German analogue synthesizer. The album’s accompanying short films were directed by Marcella Cytrynowicz and filmed at various locations around Gendel’s home state of California during COVID lockdown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDRM\u003c\/i\u003e was recorded in one sixteen-hour session, and then manipulated by Gendel with electronic percussionist Philippe Melanson. 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Rather, the musician harnesses his horn in service of ambient tones and experimental works that reside outside genre distinctions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“East L.A. Haze Dream” floats like an amorphous cloud of vapor as Gendel layers gently blown notes with the occasional brief sax run. “Trudge” is a darkened mantra featuring lower-register hums and a minimal rhythm that marches with determination. In notes, the artist writes that it and the other eight pieces were inspired by the motion picture “The Labyrinth \u0026amp; the Long Road,” [directed by Daniel Oh] for which Gendel contributed the score, and that makes sense. It’s an atmospheric work that evokes its own brand of drama. 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