Predella Group:
Jeb Bishop: trombone
Jaimie Branch: trumpet
Tim Daisy: drums, percussion
Fred Lonberg-Holm: cello
Nate McBride: bass
Jeff Parker: guitar
Ken Vandermark: reeds

Recorded at Yellow Door, Chicago, during the second half of December 2008. (Mixed at Chicago Mastering Service; directed by Ken Vandermark; produced by Bob Weston)

"Roads of Water" is the first soundtrack composed by Ken Vandermark, a recognized Chicago sax and
clarinet player, composer and improviser.

A documentary movie directed by Augusto Contento tells a story of people living on the Amazon river,
about the escape from civilization that increasingly determines our lives and our choices and about
indigenous people who know no other life.

A very poetic tale on the one hand, it’s also a very real story of many heroes, a story accompanied by
very few sounds. It is filled with beautiful music by Vandermark, music that gives the story space and
breath. Vandermark refers here both to what he knows best - traditional, yet forward-looking jazz, as well
as contemporary music and folk - although the latter ones are very, very subtle.

The soundtrack is highly illustrative in nature, although the lyrical themes, that are sometimes
interwoven, are reminiscent of the masters of the best jazz ballads. It is a new face of Ken Vandermark:
beautiful, poetic and lyrical, but also crude, devoid of sentimental sweetness, presenting a very different,
a very focused and pensive face of this acknowledged Chicago jazz improviser.

Strade d'Acqua/Roads of Water/Les Routes d'Eau was screened:
-the 14th of October in Pantin, near Paris, as part of an event organized by Autres Brésils
-the EstateDoc Festival in Carpi, Italy, on the 1st of July.
-the A Film for Peace Festival, in Italy.
-in Paris, as part of "Brésil en Mouvements", a week of screenings and debates on social and
environmental issues in Brazil. Before the film there will be a debate with Danielle Mitterrand, president of
Fondation France Libertés.
-di Ponte Pusterla, a Vicenza, il 5 giugno alle 22h30, dentro alla programmazione del festival Vie d'Acqua.
-the "Brésil en Mouvements.......
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"Roads of Water" to pierwszy soundtrack (muzyka do filmu) będący dziełem Kena Vandermarka, uznanego chicagowskiego saksofonisty, klarnecisty, kompozytora i improwizatora.
Dokumentalny film w reżyserii Augusto Contento opowiada o ludziach żyjących i mieszkających na Amazonce, o uciekinierach od cywilizacji coraz mocniej determinującej nasze życie i wybory, ale i o rdzennych mieszkańcach, nie znających innego życia. To bardzo poetycka, ale i konkretna opowieść mająca wielu bohaterów, nie wypełniona licznymi dźwiękami. Przestrzeń tę wypełnia piękna, pełna przestrzeni i oddechu muzyka autorstwa Vandermarka.
Odwołuje się on tu zarówno do tego, co zna najlepiej - opartego na tradycji, ale jednak wybiegającego w przyszłość jazzu, jak również muzyki współczesnej czy folkowej - chociaż te ostatnie są bardzo, bardzo delikatne.
Muzyka ma silnie ilustracyjny charakter, chociaż liryczne tematy, które czasami się tutaj pojawiają przywodzą na myśl najlepsze dokonania mistrzów jazzowej ballady. Jest to powieść, piękna i poetycko-liryczna, ale i surowa, pozbawiona sentymentalnej słodyczy, prezentująca zupełnie inne, bardzo skupione i zamyślone oblicze Kena Vandermarka.

Film „Strade d'Acqua/Roads of Water/Les Routes d'Eau „ jak dotąd prezentowany był m.in.:
-the 14th of October in Pantin, near Paris, as part of an event organized by Autres Brésils
-the EstateDoc Festival in Carpi, Italy, on the 1st of July.
-the A Film for Peace Festival, in Italy.
-in Paris, as part of "Brésil en Mouvements", a week of screenings and debates on social and environmental issues in Brazil. Before the film there will be a debate with Danielle Mitterrand, president of Fondation France Libertés.
-di Ponte Pusterla, a Vicenza, il 5 giugno alle 22h30, dentro alla programmazione del festival Vie d'Acqua.
-the "Brésil en Mouvements" Festival in Paris next month.
-the Water & Film Festival in Parisdes Rencontres.......
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