Simon Belelty - PEE WEE (2022)

Depending on the mood, melody or atmospheric conditions of a piece of music, jazz, as it is known, is a harmonic reordering of time and space.

The music on this recording, for instance – contemplative, laconic, tender, and romantic – is highly specific in its parameters. Mid-Autumn, lazy Sunday afternoon, a light rain, red wine, snuggling, whispering, remembering. A transference of time where even a casual listener will be alive in the moment, but also lost in the melody, the familiar urgencies having melted away in the graceful interplay between a group of musicians (the band) who know there is no better place to be than in the interior harmony of these tunes, with a simpatico community of listeners – whether it be in a club, or in their private spaces – sharing that sense of nirvana.

It’s-good-to-be-alive music. Existential music. I love-you-and-forgive-you music.