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An
excellent improvised duo featuring Joe Giardullo on soprano & alto saxes
& piccolo flute and Carlos Zingaro on violin. We've come to know and
love the great reeds hero from upstate New York, Joe Giardullo, from his
wonderful work with Joe McPhee, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Lacy & Marilyn
Crispell, over the past decade. This is his fourth fine disc for
Drimala, besides another four with his friend and neighbor Joe McPhee on
CIMP or Cadence. Carlos Zingaro is another marvelous musician from
Portugal who also plays with a number of other great players like Joelle
Leandre, Paul Lovens, Gunter Muller, Hans Reichel & Rudiger Carl. This
very special meeting and concert was recorded in Mae de Agua, a
temple-like space, connected to Lisbon's aqueduct, a water circulation
system. The water sounds are omnipresent and add a certain mysterious,
organic quality to the music.
At times
it is difficult to tell which instrument is playing, as both bend and
twist notes carefully into similar sonic terrain. Both musicians sound
like kindred spirits as they swerve and blend their notes around one
another. This is a completely acoustic affair and beautifully captured.
The natural echo (9 second reverb) adds this sublime spacious quality,
like spirits drifting through a delicate fog. An immensely enchanting
encounter. |
Downtown Music Gallery
Bruce
Gallanter |
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