Emerging from Ernesto Rodrigues' post-Cage investigations, this quintet with Jung-Jae Kim, Guilherme Rodrigues, Eric Bauer, and Stephen Flinn shapes sparse, deeply relational music where strings, winds, electronics, and percussion hover in spectral balance, forming a quiet "ghost dance" of held tones and subtle motion that blurs interior and exterior spaces while sculpting time through restraint and resonance.
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Ernesto Rodrigues-viola
Jung-Jae Kim-tenor saxophone
Guilherme Rodrigues-cello
Eric Bauer-electronics
Stephen Flinn-percussion
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UPC: 5609063408768
Label: Creative Sources
Catalog ID: cs876
Squidco Product Code: 36980
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: Portugal
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded in Berlin, Germany, on October 13th, 2025, by Adam Asnan.
"Following a return here already last month, Ernesto Rodrigues returns again (with Guilherme Rodrigues too) to reprise the quintet from 5 in the Afternoon (recorded in Berlin in March 2024), now with Crossing the Floor (recorded this past October, the day after Münster).
The earlier double album was noted here in August in a review of trio album Quark (with Jung-Jae Kim and Stephen Flinn, also from this quintet), more as a seeming preliminary investigation, quiet and everyday sounds, not necessarily coming readily to attention. Post-Cage tapestries can actually require considerable thought and preparation, and so the reprise (more than a year later) does come off more transformatively, while still feeling relatively sparse — i.e. rarely with more than one performer foregrounded, yet somehow not seeming soloistic, largely due to the figural sense of non-development, but also a sort of tautness in moving on, including via held sounds and some wobbly highs....
(This sort of dynamic can recall La rambarde... from earlier this year, i.e. there with more sense of electronics, also wavering held tones....)
A sense of spectrality is thus emphasized — including by the ghostly lighting of the cover image (naturalistic cover images being a recent feature for Rodrigues, e.g. both Cimetière des Bateaux and Points of Dichotomy presenting high-def, sunlit photos...). Senses of continuity through each track on Crossing the Floor also suggest some element of dance to me (via the title, but also in relation to Cage...), a kind of quiet shadow dance across an open space....
Of course, these sorts of post-Cage images and confrontations with silence have been a feature of Rodrigues' output for many years, e.g. surveyed here briefly (this past April) with Genius Loci, there retaining a piano-keyboard orientation (as so often with Cage too...), so less of the ephemerality of e.g. La rambarde... or indeed of Crossing the Floor....
This quintet (seemingly arising from the quintet from the enigmatic Letters to Milena from 2022, without Kim but introducing to this space Eric Bauer, whose contributions on electronics can still be difficult to individuate...) also suggests other crossings and relations — i.e. per the dense relational possibilities of a quintet in general, pace discussions here of Two and Shadowplay also just last month... — as e.g. the Rodrigueses recorded Points of Dichotomy the next day (also in Berlin) with Kim and Andreas Willers (the guitarist having released Müller / Willers on Trouble in the East Records earlier this year, both albums featuring smoother textures, very different from rock guitar...), after having already recorded their second album as a duo (Pico, a second track using a field recording from the island...) a few days earlier.
Although Crossing the Floor can then suggest senses of the outdoors (including windswept landscape...), and suggests very broad themes via track titles..., there's again something of an "everyday" and so domestic (mostly indoors...) orientation, indeed a sort of haunting (i.e. feelings of presence... versus e.g. the quite impersonal Distilling Silence from 2022...). There's sometimes a sort of desolation, absent e.g. zoomimesis (or at times any sense of humanity), almost into a sterile sense of space... but somehow still suggesting presence(s), maybe memories. Maybe it's an afterlife.
It's then the waves of sound, the mysterious assemblages (presumably at least in part via electronics...), the senses of rising and falling, that end up prompting a tangible impression of sculpting time. This "ghost dance" will then also fade into the background of many noisier environments...."—Todd McComb's Jazz Thoughts
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• Show Bio for Ernesto Rodrigues "He has been playing the violin for 30 years and in that time has played all genres of music ranging from contemporary music to free jazz and improvised music, live and in the studio. His main interest shifted towards contemporary improvised and composed music. The relationship with his instruments is focused in sonic and textural elements. Electronic music was an early influence on his approach to violin playing, which challenges traditional romantic concepts of the violin/viola through use of preparations and micro tuning. Active in different settings on the Portuguese scene for free improvised music, both as a collaborator and in leading his own groups. Music for Dance, Cinema, Video and Performance. Has created the record label Creative Sources Recordings in 1999, which mainly concentrates on releasing experimental and electro-acoustic music." ^ Hide Bio for Ernesto Rodrigues • Show Bio for Jung-Jae Kim Jung-Jae Kim is a South Korean saxophonist, the leader of the band The JJ Motion. ^ Hide Bio for Jung-Jae Kim • Show Bio for Guilherme Rodrigues "Was born 1988 in Lisboa, Portugal and started playing cello and trumpet at Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa at the age of 7. In 1999 joined Conservatório Nacional de Música de Lisboa to study classical and music theory and in the current year recorded his first album - Multiples - with Ernesto Rodrigues and José Oliveira out on Creative Sources Recordings. Apart from work in music ensembles ranging for contemporary classical to free improvisation, also works with live music poetry, theatre and film-music. After lengthy residency in Lisboa, (1988-2016) moved to Berlin and has been active as composer and improviser in the scene. Worked with some international and renewed artists like Ernesto Rodrigues, Jean-luc Guionnet, Margarida Garcia, Manuel Mota, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Sei Miguel, Tim Goldie, Jeffrey Morgan, Oren Marshall, Gerhard Uebele, Klaus Kurvers, Gabriel Paiuk, Nicolas Field, Jaime Fennelly, Blaise Siwula, Will Guthrie, Pawel Grabowski, Michael Thieke, Wade Matthews, Leonel Kaplan, Diego Chamy, Gabriel Paiuk, Barry Weisblat, Joe Giardullo, Jassem Hindi, Tisha Mukarji, Masahiko Okura, Taku Unami, Toshihiro Koike, Sharif Sehnaoui, Christine Abdelnour, Alexandre Bellenger, Carlos Zingaro, Romaric Sobac, Nuno Rebelo, Nuno Torres, Naoto Yamagashi, Heddy Boubaker, Gerhard Uebele, Guillermo Torres, Tomas Gris, Carlos Santos, Bruno Parrinha, Miguel Leiria Pereira, Miguel Ivo Cruz, Alberto Cirera, Nuno Morão, Mark Sanders, Dennis Gonzaléz, Alípio Carvalho Neto, Raymond Macdonald, Neil Davidson, David Stachenas, Lisa Ullén, D'incise, Cyril Bondy, Miguel Mira, Rodrigo Amado, Abdul Moimême, Monsieur Trinité, João Madeira, Álvaro Rosso, Gil Gonçalves, Marian Yanchyk, Filipe Passos, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Christian Wolfarth, Thanos Chrysakis, Bechir Saade, Kurt Liedwart, Miguel A. Garcia, Ilia Belorukov, Andrew Lafkas, Gao Jiafeng, Eric Wong, Johan Moir, Casey Moir, Magda Mayas, Matthias Muller, Alexander Frangenheim ... Has performed and toured in all Europe. Released more than 30 albums of his own projects." ^ Hide Bio for Guilherme Rodrigues • Show Bio for Eric Bauer "Eric Bauer is an artist active from improvisation to composition, village to city.Dealing with frequencies of all sort via volume pedal and critical listening. Eric Bauer has been working primarily with analog modular synthesis and advanced playing techniques since 2014. The use of samplers, tapes, rubber bands and other objects such as the double wind wand bullroarer or snare drum should be mentioned. While his work in the early years focused exclusively on compositions, since 2016 he has also been working increasingly on improvised music, preferably with acoustic instruments. Bauer's tendency to break down the boundaries between sound forms becomes particularly clear when you look at his musical career, which was self-taught, initially through turntableism, and later on guitar and drums as well as singing. He also recorded two albums on the Rhodes piano with the Trio Laube and is currently active as a guitarist in the experimental rock band Slurge. Since 2019, Bauer has also been working regularly with the director Mikko Linnemann, for the first time on his essay "In the Forecourt of History - Celebrating Marx". In 2018 and 2020, at the invitation of capsule magazine, Bauer set two short stories by the authors Xia Jia and Jiang Bo to music. Concerts and festival invitations have taken him from cultural projects to galleries and theaters in Poland, Spain, Italy, France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia and Nepal. Various publications, including on Grisaille, Econore, aa-rec, tmrw label, small doses Name throw: In the area of improvised to composed music, he has worked with, among others, Benjamin Flesser, Marie Takahashi, Andrew Lafkas, Anil Eraslan, Carina Khorkhordina, Eliad Wagner, Jack Adler McKean, Samuel Hall, Rieko Okuda, Axel Dörner, Bryan Eubanks, Kamil Korolczuk, Marcello Busato, Xavier Lopez, Tristan Honsinger, Ilia Belorukov, Emilio Gordoa, Adam Goodwin, Burkhard Beins, Ernesto Rodriguez, Lorena Izquierdo, Wolfgang Seidel and Mia Dyberg." ^ Hide Bio for Eric Bauer • Show Bio for Stephen Flinn "Stephen Flinn is a composer, performer, and improviser who performs throughout Europe, Japan, and the United States. As well as being an accomplished percussionist, he works with unusual sound sources, including self made instruments and found objects. Stephen is based in New York City, NY." ^ Hide Bio for Stephen Flinn
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Track Listing:
1. Visions 15:45
2. Solitude 8:44
3. Landscape 9:22
4. Triptych 10:14
5. Blood 11:49
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