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Ilia Belorukov, Gabriel Ferrandini: Disquiet
ByBut the album is not all jumps, rips and roars. There are times when the two collaborate in heartbeat whooshes, as Belorukov pushes air through his sax and one can hear the keys of the instrument move without notes. He also produces quiet chirps and whines as Ferrandini reduces his all-over drumming to asynchronous taps and pops and uses his mallets to create cymbal whooshes to add texture to the landscape. At other times Belorukov rips the alto with an intensity that brings to mind great alto improvisers like Anthony Braxton, Jimmy Lyons, or Roscoe Mitchell, and Ferrandini uses these outbursts to serve up a complex underpinning, combining an array of drums and cymbals to produce more clicks and clacks than a chorus of crickets or a swarm of locusts.
The titles of the compositions"Without Facts," "The Big Passages," "Fragmented Matter," "Frictions of an Interlude," and "Two Notes"offer clues to the explorations and the borderless worlds and flurries of sounds created. While Ferrandini's hometown of Redondo Beach, CA, USA, and Belorukov's hometown of St. Petersburg, Russia, may be half a world apart, the tunes here demonstrate that no distance is too far for great music.
Track Listing
Without Facts; The Big Passages; Fragmented Matter; Fictions of an Interlude; Two Notes.
Personnel
Ilia Belorukov: alto saxophone; Gabriel Ferrandini: drums and percussion.
Album information
Title: Disquiet | Year Released: 2019 | Record Label: Clean Feed Records
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