The Brooklyn saxophonist, composer, and singer joins us to discuss 'Waterbodies,' her tenth album, which brings '80s power ballads, an orchestra, and a choir back to the one long saxophone tone where all her music starts.
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This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on saxophonist, composer, and singer Charlotte Greve.
Waterbodies, out now, is her tenth album but the first under her own name. She wrote it while expecting her daughter.
We talk about her love of '80s power ballads, what Shahzad Ismaily brought as producer, and the work deadline driven by childbirth.
(The musical excerpts heard in the interview are from Charlotte Greve's 'Waterbodies')
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00:00 Introduction
00:57 Fourteen years in New York
03:58 Leaving Berlin's jazz corner for electronics and singing
05:31 A cassette of '80s power ballads
08:19 Nine band records, then her own name
10:16 Shahzad Ismaily and the delay on the drum machine
13:06 Four songs in four days
17:06 Recording while pregnant
19:13 A daughter with very distinct taste
20:16 "Membranes" and the semipermeable wall
21:47 Choosing the players, and singing with Charlotte Jacobs
23:28 Saxophone, voice, and breath
25:11 Seventeen more takes: guidance and control
26:38 Sequencing: everything comes out of "The Well"
29:51 "Wave" and the big water
31:15 "Desert Song," the hardest piece
34:15 Laura Veirs's Creativity Cards and the end of the honeymoon phase
37:44 Solo sets, a quartet, and the Public Records release show
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Visit Charlotte Greve at → https://charlottegreve.de
and follow on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/cha.greve/
YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQxCI_rVNeHlAnY7nAalYQ?view_as=subscriber
and Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/woodriverband
Purchase 'Waterbodies' from Bandcamp → https://charlottegreve.bandcamp.com/album/waterbodies
or Qobuz → https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/waterbodies-charlotte-greve/fkzxnr4fvyovi
and listen on your streaming platform of choice → https://album.link/i/6769025171
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