Underwolf
Records reissues digitally this work dated 2008, debut album for the
bassist Giacomo Merega, effectively assisted by guitarist David
Tronzo and saxophonist Noah Kaplan. This record needed several long
listenings by myself, for several reasons. First I had never heard
any of the musicians involved, discovering how the guitarist David
Tronzo has an impressive long and trans-gender curriculum having
played all kind of music and collaborating with musicians such as
David Bowie guitarist Reeves Gabrels, Wayne Horvitz, David Sanborn
and The Lounge Lizards. Just as I didn’t know the italian bassist
Giacomo Merega, key man of this project, and Noah Kaplan, both
students at the time with Joe Maneri to NEC and Boston Microtonal
Society.
The
Light and Other Things has a duration of about one hour with the song
titles mentioning and directly inspired by many paintings of the same
name by Paul Klee, who act as figurative references.
It
'a record of improvised music, not easy listening, where everything
seems hard to stand on a thin and sometimes disturbing tension
created between the three musicians involved who exchange roles and
priorities: it doesn’t seem to emerge a leader flaked by the
others, but the final sound that emerges seems to be the result of a
very close interaction between the musicians themselves. Although it
sure does not sound like a record of ambient music I found pleasant
immerse myself into listening to their music accepting the game to
avoid a direct and intentional listening leaving me rather soothed
and guided by their instruments: the absence of a rhythm instrument
in this trio gives from the beginning a somewhat “alienating
effect” that continues even when you realize how each of the
musicians contribute to add rhythmic elements from time to time by
forcing the limits of their instrument and working on textures of
sounds to the limits of microtonality.
Really
interesting work, for music gourmets. We hope for a sequel.
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