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Heath Watts and Dan Pell: Breathe If You Can
ByAt times, Watts surfaces as a whirling-dervish, maintaining a fluid mode of attack. And to complement that notion, Pell helps drive the flow with punishing blows to his modest drum kit. It's partly about polyrhythmic fury that seamlessly morphs into vivid expressionism. Nonetheless, the musicians' breadth and scope of execution is founded upon extended solos and contracting motifs during variable metrics and a forthright game plan.
On "However," they summon real life experiences thru the voices of their instruments by pronouncing asymmetrical sentiments consisting of angst and humor. They even crank out a mock military-progression to further entwine a sense of realism into the grand schema. Pell's prominent drumming more than compensates for the lack of a bassist.
Breathe If You Can is one of the more absorbing free-jazz releases of 2008, especially when considering the non-chordal framework. These situations do not always provide fruitful results, yet these gents perpetuate an underlying sequence of kaleidoscopic designs that spawn gobs of interest.
Track Listing
Letters; Work; 4; People; On and Off; Crutches; However; Love; Rules.
Personnel
Heath Watts
saxophone, sopranoHeath Watts: soprano sax; Dan Pell: drums.
Album information
Title: Breathe If You Can | Year Released: 2008 | Record Label: Leo Records
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Instrument: Saxophone, soprano
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