By Fotis Nikolakopoulos
There isn’t a better description for this Scandinavian trio of women (yes,
women only, even free improvisation is male-dominated, let’s not forget
about it), than the one that opens the liner notes on bandcamp’s page for
this CD: an ongoing conversation between the three musicians about, I will
add, the vulgarities, atrocities, sonorities and small wonderful gestures
of everyday life.
With a very basic instrumentation, just voices, a prepared piano, a trumpet,
a flute and some small objects, the three musicians collaborate in creating
a sonic environment about the human condition. Collective improvisation
could be the key word to describe what happens on this CD, but the listener
will find strong fragments of chamber music and small vignettes of miniscule
sounds that delve and mingle like a radio playing randomly while you perform
boring everyday chores.
As a listener I have been exposed, like so many of us I believe, to great
recordings and musics with grandeur and big intentions. It’s the small
gestures, the mini scales that nowadays I seek. This cd is exactly that.
But, there needs to be an explanation here, not because this is not
important music or just because it is just music to relax. Quite the
contrary. The music the three musicians produce is precise, intense and
urgent. It is also, maybe the most important of them all, so personal that
immediately sets my alarm for greatness.
It is becoming normality but Relative Pitch has nailed it again, producing
an album of profound beauty that defies categorization.
Listen here:
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