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Calling Signals 09: A Winter's Tour
ByThe extended tracks enable the band to stretch, reinvent, and generate a moveable aural feast. Microtonal, asymmetrical and revolving like a jagged loop with fractured incisions and expansive four-way dialogues, the music also contains an abundance of dips and spikes, restarts, pauses and thematic regenerations.
Performing on clarinet, Gjerstad nips and claws his way through the beginning of "Nine Souls," and slashes a path atop Stephens' booming, pliant lines and Nilssen-Love's cymbal textures and frothy drum grooves. Trumpeter Jon Corbett follows suit as the band progressively raises the pitch amid jagged detours and laconic doses of humor and wit.
The quartet subdivides into low-key duet interludes, the improvisational aspects a principle factor, although the musical approach and metrics appear to have been given some upfront thought. It's not about rambling or superfluous instances of entwining workouts, equally noticeable on "Five Souls (plus the barman)," which rotates between a fast-paced burner impetus with undulating rhythmic flows, and medium-tempo exchanges. Simply put, the band effectively takes care of business sans any mysterious agendas or trivialities.
Track Listing
Nine Souls; Five Souls (plus the barman).
Personnel
Nick Stephens
bass, acousticFrode Gjerstad: clarinets, alto saxophone; Jon Corbett: trumpet, valve trombone, conch; Nick Stephens: double bass; Paal Nilssen-Love: percussion.
Album information
Title: A Winter's Tour | Year Released: 2011 | Record Label: Loose Torque
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Instrument: Bass, acoustic
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