"Now, two duos with the participation of Udo Schindler, German multi-instrumentalist who has been paying particular attention to bass and bass variants of the clarinet, but also uses the soprano saxophone and, in "Empty Pigenhole", the ...
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2014 Country: Portugal Packaging: Jewel Case Recorded live at the 33th Salon fur Klang+Kunste in Kralling/Munich, Germany , February 22nd, 2013, by Udo Schindler.
"Now, two duos with the participation of Udo Schindler, German multi-instrumentalist who has been paying particular attention to bass and bass variants of the clarinet, but also uses the soprano saxophone and, in "Empty Pigenhole", the horn. In the first case, the one of the disc mentioned, we hear it with the pianist Elisabeth Harnik and in the second one, "Sounding Dialectis", with the alto saxophonist and also one of the great cultivators of the present bass clarinet, Frank Gratkowski. The companies determine the course taken ... With Harnik it makes one think of a Braxton of rude sonority, without the cool / West Coast influence admitted by it, but with the same referential duality in jazz and classical music of the twentieth century. With Gratkowski it is much less cerebral, reaching a kind of sonic animalism that precedes the musicality itself. "Sounding Dialectics" as that defines what is at stake with a duo, any duo. The construction of a dialectic in the purest Hegeliansense: a thesis and its antithesis converge in a synthesis. Schindler and Gratkowski do not listen to each other, they listen to each other so that they do not meet, taking care that what they say is a conversation and not two monologues. The result of your argument changes is not a common minimum denominator or a compromise, but something else. A synthesis that is the beginning of another thesis, crying out for another antithesis. There is no communication when redundancies are generated and here is an excellent proof of this maxim."-Rui Eduardo Paes, Jazz.pt