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Per Gärdin / Travassos / Marco Franco: Oblique (trio)
by Mark Corroto
You've come to expect a music review to direct you to pay close attention to a particular passage or solo in a recording. But what if a commentator suggested the best manner to appreciate a recording was to dissipate one's attention and dissolve it into the ether? How would you then experience the music? Would it be through touch, taste, or sight? Certainly not through smell. The trio of Per Gärdin, Travassos, and Marco Franco want you to ...
read morePer Gärdin/Rodrigo Pinheiro/Marco Franco/Travassos: Oblique Mirrors
by Mark Corroto
Listening to the free improvisation recording, Oblique Mirrors brings to mind a most memorable line from the film The Usual Suspects, where Kevin Spacey as Roger “Verbal" Kint says, “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, poof. He's gone." Maybe its the evanescent nature of instant composing that evokes the “can't step in the same river twice" maxim, or maybe the sound experience of such a delicate recording ...
read morePer Gärdin: loos
by Eyal Hareuveni
Swedish, Stockholm-based free improviser, saxophonist Per Gärdin continues to expand his solo art on this, his sophomore album which follows In Situ (released on his own label, Ibn Musik, 2010). This album is a set of improvisations for solo saxophone Gärdin's musical resume includes collaborations with other prominent Swedish improvisers such as the pianist Lisa Ullén, and guitarist David Stackenäs, and also a recent tour with the Portuguese RED Trio. loos is a set of 15 ...
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