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Heath Watts - Dan Pell: Breathe If You Can

AAJ Italy Staff By AAJ Italy Staff

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NODOT (Non-Objective Dinamically Ordered Tones) è l’acronimo con il quale il sassofonista Heath Watts ama definire il proprio modo di improvvisare, e quindi il proprio pensiero musicale. Musica che, come sostenevano artisti visuali quali Kandinsky e Picasso in riferimento all’arte in generale, non deve essere una rappresentazione del reale così come lo si percepisce fisicamente, bensì un flusso determinato dalle profonde rielaborazioni dell’artista.

Aggiungiamo, sempre dalle note di copertina, che le influenze musicali dei due musicisti spaziano da Coltrane a Jimi Hendrix, da Monk ai Cream, da Cecil Taylor ai Soft Machine, da Max Roach ai Beatles, e le premesse diventano davvero allettanti. E invece Breathe if You Can delude profondamente.

Delude perché risulta l’ennesimo dialogo a due senza rete che non aggiunge nulla di nuovo a quanto già visto e ascoltato nel campo libera improvvisazione. I riferimenti stilistici e soprattutto di genere sono difficilmente percepibili, e la ricerca sul suono o sulla successione di tonalità (citata ancora nelle note come obiettivo primario della performance) è lungi dall’avere un significativo carattere di originalità o di innovazione.


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Track Listing

Letters; Work; 4; People; On and Off; Crutches; However; Love; Rules.

Personnel

Heath Watts
saxophone, soprano

Heath Watts: soprano sax; Dan Pell: drums.

Album information

Title: Breathe If You Can | Year Released: 2008 | Record Label: Leo Records


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