The Abstract Thruth

Avant Jazz / Free Improvisation / Avant-Garde
premiera polska: 2012-04-04
kontynent: Europa
kraj: Portugalia
opakowanie: digipackowe etui
opis:
Opis wydawcy:
Drugi album międzynarodowego super tria prowadzonego przez wybitnego portugalskiego saksofonistę, kompozytora i improwizatora Rodrigo Amado. Zwykle jego muzyka kojarzy się z łagodniejszą odmiana free jazzu, ale napędzany przez znakomitą sekcję rytmiczną z Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet pokazuje lwi pazur. Polecamy gorąco!

freejazz-stef.blogspot.com * * * * 1/2:
It is not entirely clear to me what the title of "The Abstract Truth" refers to: a philosophical discussion on the nature of our thinking and knowledge of reality or a reference to Oliver Nelson's classic "The Blues And The Abstract Truth", with an implicit message that there is no blues to be found here? Why leave the blues away otherwise?

To be frank, I wouldn't know. What I do know is that the music is good, and soulful, bluesy even. And it is dedicated to Italian painter Giorgio De Chirico, a surrealist who is known for his deep perspectives, the use of classical mythological iconography, and static cityscapes. But again, the link to the music itself is not always apparent.The trio consists of Rodrigo Amado on tenor and baritone, Kent Kessler on bass, Paal Nilssen-Love on drums, and after "Teatro", the second album of the trio. All eight tracks are freely improvised pieces, yet with a focused logic of their own. Amado is a great saxophonist, not necessarily in the traditional technical sense, but certainly in the musical sense: he can make his instrument sing, speak, tell a story, full of passion and emotion, yet equally full of surprise. The music holds the middle between expansiveness and intimacy, a rare quality and one that is also to be found in Amado's photography : a nice sense of contrast, clarity in the execution, broad themes, yet looked at from a very finite and unique human perspective. And a warm human perspective. Kessler and Nilssen-Love are excellent partners for his music, as usual rich in ideas, and also sensitive in the playing, only listen to the first track "Intro/The Red Tower" : a little capsule of their musical universe, with the arco bass building the tension, abstract sax phrases, the drums subtly creating a thundering backdrop and the sax gently and warm-toned introducing the tempo, with the drums picking up the rhythm and the bass switching to a boppish vamp, then the tempo changes again, slowing down, becoming bluesy. A little less than five minutes, but quite wealthy. And well, so is the rest of the album. Very much in the same style as their first album, yet slightly better on this album. Because the pieces are more compact: intimate expansiveness, grand in its finite limitations, universal in its all-too human reality. The blues and the abstract truth, dig?
Stef

muzycy:
Rodrigo Amado: tenor & baritone saxophones
Kent Kessler: double bass
Paal Nilssen-Love: drums

utwory:
1. Intro / The Red Tower
2. Clouds And Shadows
3. Human Condition
4. The Kiss
5. Universe Unmasked
6. A Dream Transformed
7. The Enchanted Room
8. Enigma of the Arrival

total time - 52:39
wydano: 2009
more info: www.cleanfeed-records.com