By  Fotis Nikolakopoulos

The duo of Julius Amber is a paraphrase of Elio Amberg on the tenor
saxophone and Julian Sartorius on the drums. Shut Up is the amalgamation
of their imaginative and prescient for music, one which definitely goes past jazz, even jazz
based mostly musics. I might dare make a comparability that alongside XT, the duo of
Seymour Wright and Paul Abbott, Amberg and Sartorius breathe completely recent
air in improvisational music relieving the traditional sax-drums duo from the
burden of custom.

The music in all ten tracks of Shut Up finds each musicians willingly
reconceptualizing the thought and notion of the duo. It’s nearly unimaginable
to tell apart their distinctive voices (and noises…) and that’s precisely what
they’re making an attempt to attain. The sounds: gargles, percussion cracks, small
phrases on the sax, cymbals crashing in miniscule scale and a lot extra,
are made on the spot with precision. Their small scale –typically lower than
three minutes long- improvisations go deep right into a wrestle of getting rid
the person voice, leaving zero house for the mythologized, in jazz,
solo participant. Beginning with the opening observe which clocks on fourteen
minutes and positively is a state of intent, as much as the quick, underneath two
minutes, passages, the aforementioned comment is the core of Shut Up.

Their use of electronics, to not point out the digital rhythm sequencer
they observe as they go alongside, makes this album (sure! It’s on vinyl) extra
anti-jazz than something else that comes out these days underneath the moniker free
improvisation. However that is not an “digital” album in no way and the
rhythm sequences they observe are not a hard and fast tenure on what you’re about
to take heed to on either side of the document.

Their sound, so private certainly, is versatile, energetic and playful. They
don’t really feel any burden, from any historical past or custom, on their shoulders.
Once more I might dare to remark that their gaze in the direction of the fabric feels a
bit radical. Sturdy phrase, I do know, however Shut Up is music that shouldn’t be
missed. Be it from the very best of 2023 lists or, extra importantly, from these
who wish to take heed to one thing new and prefer to get out of their consolation
zone.

After final 12 months’s trio of Christoph Erb, Magda Mayas and Gerry Hemingway
that made it on this website’s high ten record for 2022, Veto Information pas
produced one other nice one. In fewer phrases, hear and purchase it right here: 

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