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Tapani Rinne & Juha Mäki-Patola: Open
ByThe Finnish musicians Tapani Rinne and Juha Mäki-Patola dismiss that directive straight away with this release. Rinne is a saxophonist and clarinetist who is known for electro-acoustic music, but is comfortable in jazz, folk, and classical, and world music. Likewise Juha Mäki-Patola works with neo-classical music and ambient soundspaces with an emphasis on film and television. This collaboration between the two artists was accomplished by trading sound files, one assumes due to the pandemic.
The ten tracks are situated somewhere between the music of the Australian trio The Necks and Samuel T Shepherd's Floating Points heard on Promises (Luaka Bop, 2020) with Pharoah Sanders and The London Symphony Orchestra. Much like the beginnings of a performance by The Necks, Rinne and Mäki-Patola create sonic patterns which induce an almost hypnotic effect. They differ from ambient tracks in that they are difficult to ignore. Synthesizers or piano create a painted canvas for the reeds to accompany each solo. The pair's ten explorations are hauntingly intoxicating and quite addictive.
Track Listing
Brevity; Open Part I; Still; Distant; Leave; Peak; Open Part II; Hope; Fall; Hover.
Personnel
Additional Instrumentation
Tapani Rinne: saxophones, clarinets; Juha Mäki-Patola: synthesizers, organ, guitar, piano.
Album information
Title: Open | Year Released: 2022 | Record Label: Hush Hush
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