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Samuel Huguenin Symbolic Quartet: L'Exile des Nymphes

Read "L'Exile des Nymphes" reviewed by Luigi Sforza

by Luigi Sforza

Un piacevole e significativo numero di idee musicali--ben argomentate--sono presenti in L'Exile des Nymphes, album del giovane sassofonista svizzero Samuel Huguenin, che a capo di un pregevole quartetto esplora antiche danze musicali ("Estampie"); mescola essenze melodiche balcaniche con arabesche cadenze musicali ("Mescaline"); si esprime con inflessioni che lasciano immaginare gli strumenti ad ancia dell'Epiro ("Sikkim," ballad pacata quanto intensa); evoca marcatamente suggestioni monkiane, che non prescindono dall'affascinante plastica asimmetria ritmico-melodica di temi come “Evidence" (in un dialogico schema esecutivo introduttivo ...

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