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Lotus Crash: First Visit

Una musica viva, pulsante, frutto di un'invidiabile, equilibratissima sinergia fra le varie forze in campo, è quanto ci offre questo bell'album, inciso alla RSI nel febbraio 2023, nove brani in totale, frutto in egual misura delle penne dei due fiati del quartetto, più "Fate" di Andrew Cyrille a sparigliare le carte (ma non come assunto complessivo).

La grammatica prescelta sposa la causa di uno sperimentalismo mai sovrabbondante, sempre lucido, conseguente, attento alle esigenze imposte dalla necessità di dare una forma, un'architettura, perfettamente conchiuse al totale.

Momenti più irriverenti (peraltro senza eccessi) si avvicendano così a situazioni quasi cameristiche (tutto sommato abbastanza rare, in verità), in un itinerario compositivo/improvvisativo di assoluto rigore e felicità ispirativa, dove—appunto—gesto autoriale e aleatorietà convivono in assoluta armonia, senza frizioni o cesure di sorta. Brani come "Desert Bird," "Ogoni," "Before and the Ghost Dance," il citato "Fate" e "The Forest People," se proprio vogliamo fare qualche titolo, appaiono in tal senso i più emblematici di un album comunque di grande omogeneità anche come livello qualitativo.

Album della settimana.

Track Listing

Marsala's Strandgut; Desert Bird; Totem; Ogoni; Before and the Ghost Dance; Fate; The Forest People; Split Master; She Always Takes Us Back.

Personnel

Tommy Meier
saxophone, tenor
Luca Sisera
bass, acoustic

Album information

Title: First Visit | Year Released: 2024 | Record Label: Ezz-thetics


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