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Chris Potter: The Sirens
Track review of "Wayfinder"
Potter and his ace band turn up the heat on the intricately concocted, "Wayfinder." Odd-metrics and a swirling ostinato are the backbone for this piece. Revered pianist Craig Taborn and nascent keyboardist David Virelles, using a celeste and prepared piano, lock into a slippery groove via cascading chord clusters and polytonal treatments. Cunning and markedly off-kilter by design, Potter goes for the gusto during his rather imploding sax solo, augmented by plaintive cries, towering crescendos and one part where he mimics the previously performed piano ostinato. He realigns the band for a succession of thorny unison choruses atop the rhythm section's buoyant and dizzying undercurrent. Besides the shifting tides, dips and spikes, The Sirens looms as an astute vehicle for Potter to express his consummate artistry.
Track Listing
Wine Dark Sea; Wayfinder; Dawn (With Her Rosy Fingers); The Sirens; Penelope; Kalypso; Nausikaa; Stranger at the Gate; The Shades.
Personnel
Chris Potter
saxophone, tenorChris Potter: soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet; Craig Taborn: piano; David Virelles: prepared piano, celeste, harmonium; Larry Grenadier: double bass; Eric Harland: drums.
Album information
Title: The Sirens | Year Released: 2013 | Record Label: ECM Records
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