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David Helbock's Random / Control: Think Of Two
By Track review of "Musica das Nuvens e do Chao"The trio enacts Pascoal's "Musica das Nuvens e do Chao," like a mini-suite amid shifting reinventions of the principal melody. They kick it off with a surreal approach and dissect the familiar theme into chunks, then open it up with conventional phrasings via soft horns and Helbock's linear block chord progressions. Here, Johannes Bar enlists the bass element with his baritone horn as Andreas Broger's blithe flute lines over the top spawn the customarily cheerful aura of Brazilian music. But the musicians periodically toggle between instruments to generate subtle hues and textures. In a loose sense, they impart a sleight of hand mystique akin to a magician, where semblances of a larger ensemble come to fruition. The group also varies the pulse throughout, as Helbock's lush piano solo ends with a dark and somewhat dour chord. Hence, a rather astonishing trio that is purportedly a dazzling live act.
Personnel
David Helbock
pianoDavid Helbock: piano, inside-piano, toy-piano, melodica, bass drum , clave, percussion, toys, electronics; Johannes Bar: trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo-trumpet, bass-trumpet, baritone horn, tuba, helicon, sousaphone, alphorn, didgeridoo, beatbox, percussion, electronics; Andreas Broger: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, slide-trumpet, bass drum, percussion, electronics.
Album information
Title: David Helbock´s Random/Control - Think Of Two | Year Released: 2014 | Record Label: Traumton Records