Wing Vane

Avant Jazz / Free Improvisation / Avant-Garde
premiera polska: 16.01.2004
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: Canada
opakowanie: plastikowe etui
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Editor's info:
And that's what I hear in this music. The choices Leimgruber, Demierre, and Phillips have made are everywhere unexpected and unexplained, but fit together as aural expression in the ambiguous area between imagination (a belief without experience to support it) and logic (a belief supported by experience). The materials they use may not be new, but they are reconsidered, recombined, reorganized in surprising ways. At its core, this is music of subtlety, understatement, nuance, concision. One of the trio's choices seems to have been to pay special attention to dynamics, closely regulating the intensity of the process and the resulting sound values, so that the physical activity of producing a sound on one's instrument may become the music itself- barely audible, but alive if attention is paid to it. More focused activity is held to the level of a whisper, a sigh, occasionally raised to that of an intimate conversation. Those few extreme sounds-like Leimgruber's saxophone wails in "Distance" or Demierre's piano turbulence in "Organically Yours"-puncture the air, intentionally. Where pauses occur, they do not interrupt the music but become part of its fabric. Exploring the freedom within musical relationships without resorting to the usual solutions of sound and gesture, they create surprise and sensibility by frustrating our (and no doubt their own) expectations. In place of the typical melodic vocabulary, they speak in rattles, smears, broken notes, breath noises, pops, bites, growls, whistles, harmonics, isolated pitches, and extended (post-Webern) intervals. Instead of commonly adding more to the mix, they erase lines, compress gestures, condense movement. By seldom interacting in the conventional sense, they don't conform but coalesce. Working together as individuals, they demonstrate that (notwithstanding much contemporary Free Jazz) intensity is not measured in decibels, but in jolts of alternating current-alert details charged with significance in the moment. They make free music in the best sense of the word-whatever that might turn out to be. Art Lange
August 2001
Toutes les musiques sont de Urs Leimgruber (SUISA), Jacques Demierre (SUISA) et Barre Phillips (SACEM). Enregistré " LIVE " au Studio 2 de la Radio DRS de Zurich les 8 et 9 janvier 2001. Montage numérique et gravure par Martin Pearson au Studio Platinum One.

muzycy:
Urs Leimgruber: saxophones ténor et soprano
Jacques Demierre: piano
Barre Phillips: contrebasse

utwory:
1 Wing Vane 18'55"
2 Karypso 9'39"
3 Distance 10'11"
4 Time Was 4'24"
5 Forwaard 7'16"
6 Organically Yours 13'22"
total time - 632004-01-1447
wydano: 2001
nagrano: 2001
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