Flores para Verene / Cantos para Caramina

by Tomin

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releases August 2, 2024

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140g Classic Black Vinyl inside a heavyweight jacket, with large insert sheet, IARC OBI strip and poly-lined dome patterned innersleeve. Pressed at Pallas in Germany with lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST.

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Includes digital pre-order of Flores para Verene / Cantos para Caramina. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

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Limited Edition C40 Cassette, pro-dubbed from 24bit masters to premium ferro tape, in white cassette shell with metallic gold labels, housed in a classic Norelco box with 2-sided J-Card +1. MFG in Canada.

Includes digital pre-order of Flores para Verene / Cantos para Caramina. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

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Due to the popularity of the last two, our seasonal bundle series rolls on! For the fervent, faithful collector our label's output: the SUMMER MINI MONDO is a beautiful mini bundle containing all three albums to-be-announced across Summer 2024... Includes IARC0085 (SML), IARC0083 (Tomin), IARC0084 (Asher), on Limited Edition Color vinyl.

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...and if that is not enough... the MINI MONDO will now be shipping from our EU fulfillment warehouse, in addition to the US & UK warehouses, which will help to minimize VAT tax etc.

All items with ship together in one package around August 1st, 2024, just in time for the worldwide street date of album #2. *Please note* this means that you will indeed receive album #1 ~ four weeks after the street date, but it also means that you will receive album #3 ~ four weeks BEFORE its street date.

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*** For all you assholes and clowns out there, or sweethearts who are just curious, re: FREE SHIPPING, due to a technical nuance that's not worth describing here, we had to charge atleast .50 cents, so please don't be alarmed :) ... more

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Due to the popularity of the last two, our seasonal bundle series rolls on! For the fervent, faithful collector our label's output: the SUMMER MINI MONDO is a beautiful mini bundle containing all three albums to-be-announced across Summer 2024... Includes IARC0085 (SML), IARC0083 (Tomin), IARC0084 (Asher Gamedze), on Classic Black vinyl.

...with a BIG extra here: NOW WITH FREE SHIPPING, WORLDWIDE ***

...and if that is not enough... the MINI MONDO will now be shipping from our EU fulfillment warehouse, in addition to the US & UK warehouses, which will help to minimize VAT tax etc.

All items with ship together in one package around August 1st, 2024, just in time for the worldwide street date of album #2. *Please note* this means that you will indeed receive album #1 ~ four weeks after the street date, but it also means that you will receive album #3 ~ four weeks BEFORE its street date.

Bandcamp downloads will be sent via email for all the releases by or before the ship date.

US orders ship from Chicago. UK ships from the UK, EU and rest of world ships from the EU.

(Please note - if stock sells out in the EU, orders may be trigged from the UK or US, or vice versa, then potentially be subject to VAT. Subject to availability while supplies last, this is a limited quantity bundle! We cannot entirely predict or control VAT/tax charges. There may be a nominal shipping charge of ~ $0.50 due to Bandcamp's setup process)

*** For all you assholes and clowns out there, or sweethearts who are just curious, re: FREE SHIPPING, due to a technical nuance that's not worth describing here, we had to charge atleast .50 cents, so please don't be alarmed :) ... more

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1.	Father and Son (for Cal Massey)
2.	Come Sunday, Bass (for Ellington and Dolphy)
3.	The Inflated Tear, v1 (for Rahsaan Roland Kirk)
4.	Fire Waltz (for Waldron, Dolphy and Little)
5.	Desert Fairy Princess (for Sharps, Sebastian and P.A.P.A.)
6.	Fables of Faubus (for Mingus and Richmond)
7.	Aquarius (for J.J. Johnson)
8.	Warm Canto (for Waldron and Dolphy)
9.	The Inflated Tear, v2 (for Rahsaan Roland Kirk)
10.	Come Sunday, Soprano (for Ellington and Dolphy)
11.	Assunta (for Cal Massey)
12.	Father and Son (for Cal Massey) [Alt. Take]
13.	Spirits Rejoice, Var 1
14.	Ogún Bára
15.	Angela's Angel 01:01	buy track
16.	Naima
17.	The Prayer
18.	Rahsaan Is Beautiful
19.	A Walk With Thee
20.	Humility In The Light Of The Creator
21.	Love
22.	Life
23.	Love (Alternate Take)
24.	Life Revisited

about

27-year-old Tomin Perea-Chamblee is a brass- and reed-centered multi-instrumentalist, the composer and arranger of pieces with excellently thorny harmonies, an at-times reluctant musicker and enthusiastic Brooklynite (born and raised, so his admiration primarily concerns the borough’s pre-gentralification qualities), who, by day works as a bioinformatician. If you're in New York, there’s an OK chance that you’ve heard him play before, with young (jazz-adjacent) bands and musicians of some renown. Flores para Verene / Cantos para Caramina introduces Tomin as an individual artist to the wider public, and is in many ways a tribute to family and heritage. It’s music grounded in clear purpose and a gravity seemingly beyond his youthfulness, yet coloured with unexpected hues, engaging a newness and hope that lies beyond tradition’s solemnity.

Tomin has been self-releasing the music compiled on Flores para Verene / Cantos para Caramina since 2020. Originally, these pieces were low-key exercises in personal expression, mini markers of intentional beauty. They were also a kind of culmination. By the time Tomin got around to recording them, he’d already been a high-school trombonist in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra, and a many-hats-wearing horn player with Standing on the Corner, while studying at Columbia. Setting these sounds down on tape was just a matter of time and follow-through.

Flores para Verene (“Flowers for Verene”) brings together solo clarinet-and-trumpet versions of compositions by Tomin’s musical paragons — Mingus, Coltrane, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Albert Ayler, Eddie Gale, among others. They were recorded to honour his life’s great hero, his maternal grandmother, Virlenice Diaz Valencia, who’d passed away in late 2019 in her native Colombia. (Tomin’s liner notes express the love the two had for one another with an exceptional clarity.) These versions are miniatures—short-length, layered constructions offering little more than the song’s theme, in lo-fi recordings that embrace the click of the clarinet keys—yet full-hearted in their intimacy. As with all the best sounds, laughter and tears are on equal footing here.

On the album's Cantos para Caramina (“Songs for Caramina”) side, it’s Tomin’s own originals—dedicated to his older, very much living sister, Caramina—which rise to the fore. Horns are abandoned for the sine-waves of synths and electric keyboards. The longing of remembrance is replaced with the allure of a future yet to happen. The textured air is filled with melodic abstraction reminiscent of Erik Satie or Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, or maybe even Ra at his solo and sanguine. In 2021, as hope came into view, Tomin wanted to honour Caramina by creating something new. And this quartet of (equally) small-scaled compositions dance like a gathering of angels on the head of a pin. None too fancy, but eminently breathable. The kind of thing that insists, “There is more to this world.”

- Piotr Orlov

credits

releases August 2, 2024

Produced by Tomin Perea-Chamblee & Alejandro Ayala
Remastered by David Allen
Cover Graphic Design by Connor McAlinn
Cover Acrylic Painting by Sabrina Leo
Insert Photo by Alejandro Ayala
Layout by Craig Hansen

Special thanks to Caleb, Gio, Angel, jaimie, Vasilio, Gabe, Bianca, Linton, Connor, Sabrina, Scottie, David, Alejandro, Berta & Craig, Verene & Caramina, and to all the teachers, friends and presences that have illuminated this path forward.

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