By Don Phipps

Reality has all the time been elusive. Two movie examples make the purpose. The
Kurosawa masterpiece Rashomon considerations itself with completely different factors of
view by 4 eyewitnesses to a homicide. One other is the Nolan movie Memento, by which viewers are requested to piece the reality collectively primarily based on a story
that runs backward as a substitute of ahead. For each movies, every scene alters
one’s conclusions of what really occurred.

Reality Seeker, nonetheless, provides one thing that can’t be tied to life
occasions, and this explains why its music is so compelling. Musical fact
exists exterior of context. It merely is.

Bringing collectively for the primary time three free music giants – Ivo Perelman
on tenor sax, Mark Helias on bass, and Tom Rainey on drums – Reality Seeker explores the varied contours of actuality utilizing musical interpretations of
the search for fact. As is common for a Perelman challenge, these seven joint
improvisations are loosely centered. Every creates its personal distinctive temper.
Nevertheless, they’re additionally linked – primarily by the virtuosity of the
musicians concerned – but additionally by the rhythms and features of every spontaneous
composition.

An uncompromised mixture of curler coaster runs and hen like shrills
combined with the dit and dot articulation of a Morse code sign, Perelman’s
work fills the house completely. His output is evenly matched by bassist
Helias, whose bow pushed harmonic phrases are interspersed with exuberant
plucks and tweaks which floor every composition. Beneath is Rainey’s all
over drum work, use of brushes, and rimshot strategies, filling the house
like darkish fills a cave, a deep fixed tumble behind the Perelman/Helias
explorations.

One’s jaw will actually drop at the spellbinding Perelman runs on
“Non secular Development” or his slippery phrasing on “Reality Seeker.” And
Perelman’s fascinating embouchure work is on full show – permitting him to
transcend the regular registers of the tenor sax and articulate expressions
that appear past the bodily limits of the instrument. One may also marvel
at bassist Helias’s adroit mixture of strumming and bowing on “Mystical
Devotion” and the harmonics he provides to “Life’s That means.” And whereas Rainey
‘s drumming supplies refined but subtle girding for the varied
improvisations, his exploration of the sound timbres of the lure set come
to the foreground on “Ubiquitous Mild.”

The uncooked and difficult musical power that flows by means of Reality Seeker supplies a captivating journey by means of the minds of those three masters.
Explosive twists and turns mixed with delicately constructed and intense
soundscapes makes Reality Seeker a must-hear expertise.