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Wolfert Brederode: Currents
by Dan McClenaghan
The word “aesthetic" is defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as: “Of or pertaining to the sense of the beautiful." That word is often paired with the much praised Munich-based ECM Records, a label that delves deeply into beautiful sounds. And its offerings are often (though not always) of a beauty of the spare and ethereal sort, finely nuanced, tranquil, contemplative recordings that are best appreciated by serious and undistracted listening.Wolfert Brederode's Currents is one such recording.
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by Budd Kopman
With the intensely emotive Currents, pianist Wolfert Brederode makes his ECM debut, having appeared on vocalist Susanne Abbuehl's April (ECM, 2001) and Compass (ECM, 2006) and been deeply involved in their sound. Now leading instead of accompanying, Brederode has written (with one exception, “As You July Me," sharing credits with Abbuehl) a set of meditative and introspective pieces that make a cumulative, deep impression. The space this music occupies sits somewhere between extreme Romantic, yet modern classical ...
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by John Kelman
Along with Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick's first disc as a leader, The Door, ECM's North American release of pianist Wolfert Brederode's debut on the same day is more than happenstance. At 34, Brederode is a few years older than Eick, but the two share much in common. Both are firmly committed to melody as a strong stylistic definer and both have already recorded for the label, in Brederode's case with singer Susanne Abbuehl on two albums including the emotionally far-reaching ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
In questo disco del pianista olandese Wolfert Brederode, noto soprattutto per le sue collaborazioni con Susanne Abbuehl (clicca qui per leggere la recensione di April), c’è il nord e ci sono le rarefatte atmosfere in stile ECM ma, grazie alla presenza del clarinettista svizzero Claudio Puntin, c’è di più: c’è la lezione, splendida, del recentemente scomparso Jimmy Giuffre. Il fraseggio di Puntin, impegnato al clarinetto e al clarone, sempre condotto su tempi lenti, meditativo e articolato, ricorda a più riprese ...
Continue ReadingSusanne Abbuehl: April
by Craig W. Hurst
The music on Susanne Abbuehl's recent ECM release April draws on diverse musical sources that result in a product that extends beyond that which is usually expected from a recording labeled as jazz. The music of Abbuehl and her fellow musicians at times resembles music more closely akin to an impression of the spare and angular sounds of early 20th century German Expressionism, or modern avant-garde music. Overall, there is a delightfully haunting cool edge to the music on April ...
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