{"product_id":"colligan-george-nation-divided-music-cd-4055388386686","title":"Colligan,george - Nation Divided - Music CD","description":"In his first solo piano release for Whirlwind - 'Nation Divided' - George Colligan takes a lead from Duke Ellington's quoted notion that \"this is not piano. This is dreaming\". The Portland-based pianist and multi-instrumentalist is known for numerous sideman appearances on the bandstand with names such as Jack DeJohnette, Larry Grenadier, Don Byron, Cassandra Wilson, and can be found on over a hundred album recordings (including 2017's 'More Powerful' - WR4708). But, as he elucidates, this is different: \"After a lot of trio and ensemble records, I wanted to get back to the piano to clear the air and represent my thoughts again in solitude. The whole session was captured in a single day by respected pianist David Goldblatt in his basement studio\". Finding a correlation between the written and the spontaneous, some of Colligan's pieces are fully improvised, others through-composed, or they combine elements of both. \"I love Ellington's idea that it doesn't matter what it is - it's just dreaming\", he explains. I like to let things happen, but on 'the road less travelled' rather than the familiar; and in musical conversations with myself, I can take as many risks as I wish. A recurrent restlessness in Colligan's thirteen originals is validated by provocatively-named title track 'Nation Divided', it's two different keys and motifs agitatedly attempting to link up but never quite making it.Wounds Of Another Time \/ Closure \/ Between Two Worlds \/ Street Fight \/ Blues For Charleston \/ Nights Of Passion \/ The Strength To Move On \/ Nation Divided \/ Prelude \/ If That's All There Is To Say \/ Cognac Logic \/ Sentimental Foolishness \/ Saddest Of All Keys","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42311277412427,"sku":"WWIR4726.2","price":23.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7223\/1499\/files\/3546426-2421839.jpg?v=1775741657","url":"https:\/\/rockbandmerch.com\/products\/colligan-george-nation-divided-music-cd-4055388386686","provider":"Rock Band Merch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}