All About Jazz

Home » Articles » CD/LP/Track Review

JAZZ POLLS | VOTE
Support All About Jazz DONATE

Dear All About Jazz Readers,

If you're familiar with All About Jazz, you know that we've dedicated over two decades to supporting jazz as an art form, and more importantly, the creative musicians who make it. Our enduring commitment has made All About Jazz one of the most culturally important websites of its kind in the world reaching hundreds of thousands of readers every month. However, to expand our offerings and develop new means to foster jazz discovery we need your help.

You can become a sustaining member for a modest $20 and in return, we'll immediately hide those pesky Google ads PLUS deliver exclusive content and provide access to future articles for a full year! This combination will not only improve your AAJ experience, it will allow us to continue to rigorously build on the great work we first started in 1995. Read on to view our project ideas...

4

Per Gärdin / Travassos / Marco Franco: Oblique (trio)

Mark Corroto By

Sign in to view read count
Per Gärdin / Travassos / Marco Franco: Oblique (trio)
You've come to expect a music review to direct you to pay close attention to a particular passage or solo in a recording. But what if a commentator suggested the best manner to appreciate a recording was to dissipate one's attention and dissolve it into the ether? How would you then experience the music? Would it be through touch, taste, or sight? Certainly not through smell.

The trio of Per Gärdin, Travassos, and Marco Franco want you to consider the possibility that we all possess a sixth sense, an inexplicable awareness beyond normal perception. Their album was recorded during a flurry of music making by Swedish saxophonist Per Gärdin in Portugal, which produced History of The Lisbon Chaplaincy (Creative Sources, 2017) and Oblique Mirrors (ibn Musik, 2015).

ADVERTISEMENT
The suggestion of a sixth sense, or ESP, is a clue as to what the trio's scheme is on this recording. Spontaneous improvisation, yes. But they also give the impression this music exists apart from its analog wave or conversion into a stream of numbers. Gardin's saxophone glides as it keeps an almost constant chatter of energy throughout. Travassos keeps a smoldering cauldron of electronics from boiling over, as Franco is occupied with the business of herding a collection of percussive sounds. The energy center of the music is well guarded, as perception of it is oblique. The trio is juggling some musical spheres here, keeping an illusory dream aloft throughout. At least, that is what is imagined.

Track Listing: Warped; Wry; Cracked; Askew.

Personnel: Per Gärdin: alto saxophone, soprano saxophones; Travassos: electronics; Marco Franco: drums, percussion.

Title: Oblique (trio) | Year Released: 2018 | Record Label: Ibn Musik

Tags

Per Gärdin / Travassos / Marco Franco CD/LP/Track Review Mark Corroto Oblique (trio) Ibn Musik Per Gärdin

comments powered by Disqus

Shop Music & Tickets

Click any of the store links below and you'll support All About Jazz in the process. Learn how.

Shop for jazz at Amazon
Shop at HDTracks for high definition downloads
Shop for jazz at CD Universe
Shop for concert tickets at Ticketfly
Shop for tickets at Ticketmaster
Shop for tickets at TicketWeb
Shop at Hifi Man

CD/LP/Track Review
Read more articles
Oblique (trio)

Oblique (trio)

Ibn Musik
2018

buy

Related Articles

Read Lebroba CD/LP/Track Review
Lebroba
by Mark Sullivan
Published: November 22, 2018
Read The Lullaby Project CD/LP/Track Review
The Lullaby Project
by Jack Bowers
Published: November 22, 2018
Read Jazz In Detroit / Strata Concert Gallery / 46 Selden CD/LP/Track Review
Jazz In Detroit / Strata Concert Gallery / 46 Selden
by Karl Ackermann
Published: November 22, 2018
Read Intimate Adversary CD/LP/Track Review
Intimate Adversary
by Chris Mosey
Published: November 22, 2018
Read Songs from the Alan Lomax Collection CD/LP/Track Review
Songs from the Alan Lomax Collection
by Glenn Astarita
Published: November 22, 2018
Read Pendulum CD/LP/Track Review
Pendulum
by Dan McClenaghan
Published: November 21, 2018
Read "Undercurrent - Live at Theater Gutersloh" CD/LP/Track Review Undercurrent - Live at Theater Gutersloh
by Glenn Astarita
Published: May 9, 2018
Read "Monochrome" CD/LP/Track Review Monochrome
by Hrayr Attarian
Published: July 16, 2018
Read "Super Mood" CD/LP/Track Review Super Mood
by Glenn Astarita
Published: September 24, 2018
Read "Folkjazz from Finland" CD/LP/Track Review Folkjazz from Finland
by Anthony Shaw
Published: November 14, 2018
Read "The Out Louds" CD/LP/Track Review The Out Louds
by Don Phipps
Published: December 5, 2017
Read "Plight & Premonition / Flux & Mutability" CD/LP/Track Review Plight & Premonition / Flux & Mutability
by Geno Thackara
Published: July 10, 2018