By Fotis Nikolakopoulos

I actually like Tim Daisy’s drumming and the way in which he makes use of each inch of his
drum set. Though he undoubtedly comes from a lineage of free jazz
drummers, his strategy is exclusive and permits a whole lot of pleasure to these of
who consider that the drummer shouldn’t be confined to the function of the
timekeeper.

As a fan of his music, I need to remark that duos and small ensembles are one
of his chosen paths to specific his musical concepts. Right here, with Sebastian
Strinning, who performs tenor saxophone on this recording, appears at his finest
once more. Really they each sound on prime type.

The sax and drums duo, so nicely documented, recorded and commented within the
historical past of recent music, by no means stops to look fruitful. If I needed to guess,
I’d say that that is taking place as a result of it depends on a fundamental type of human
connection and understanding. Two individuals of no matter age, gender or
sexuality all the time enclose the core (or the beginning in numbers possibly) of
individuals’s exchanging in concepts and emotions.

Right here on Fort and Solar, one other excellent free jazz launch from Veto
Data, they depend on interplay and listening to one another first.
Listening first, enjoying after that: that is the very coronary heart of
improvisation. Their enjoying on Fort and Solar is linear, like they’re
following one another’s path, leaving room for concepts to blossom and following
one another’s concepts and gestures.

Strinning’s tenor sax spreads phrases in a humble approach like attempting, all the time,
to go away room for his fellow participant. Though I are inclined to keep away from blowouts
from saxes lately, if I needed to make a criticism on this positive recording,
I might say that some extra energetic passages would assist me as a listener.
However his delicate strategy is a lot extra nearer to his companion enjoying, that
the aforementioned thought makes me consider it’s simply me nagging a bit…

I can not say if the 2 have performed collectively earlier than, however, actually, they
appear to know every nicely. And above all they undoubtedly appear to make use of fluently
this non verbal approach of communication known as improvisation.

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