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Carlos Alves "Zingaro": Live At Total Meeting
ByThat experience ensures a successful outcome on these three collectively navigated pieces recorded in Paris in late 2010. There are no longueurs, and no-one hogs the limelight, as the foursome understatedly but purposefully moves through the range of combinations inherent in the lineup. Each player maintains interest by endless variations in timbre, dynamics, and attack, while also exploring the tension between consonance and dissonance. Zingaro displays a nervy energy, alternating eerie creaks with taut glissandos, while Cappozzo pits vocalized inflections against pure tones and puttering exclamations. Bourdellon's breathy fluttering and multiphonics on flutes are in contrast to his agile scampering between registers on bass clarinet. But it is Lelievrethe youngest of the four by a generationwho exerts the biggest influence, largely through his choice of whether to add a pulse to the proceedings or not.
Some of the finest moments come when the group settles into repeating patterns to create a substructure to underpin their endeavors, as towards the conclusion of "Total 2," where Lelievre contributes momentum to a passage of extemporized intersecting lines. Similarly on "Total 3," Bourdellon initiates a bass clarinet ostinato, supplemented by percussive clatter, over which Zingaro's singing violin and Cappozzo's heraldic trumpet fanfares intertwine. Such interludes illuminate the more indeterminate give and take which precedes them and lend a sense of narrative by providing the ultimate destination.
Track Listing
Total 1; Total 2; Total 3.
Personnel
Carlos Alves "Zingaro"
violinCarlos Alves "Zingaro": violin; Jean Luc Cappozzo: trumpet, bugle; Jerome Bourdellon: flutes, bass clarinet; Nicolas Lelievre: percussion.
Album information
Title: Live At Total Meeting | Year Released: 2013 | Record Label: NoBusiness Records
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Instrument: Violin
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