"In Gerald Murnane's Barley Patch, he writes of a character who, listening to music in an old timber building, would hope to find "the crowd of dust-motes that he sometimes saw swirling or drifting in a shaft of sunlight." As he listene...
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2017 Country: Portugal Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded live at O'Culto da Ajuda, Lisbon, Portugal, on April 30th, 2016, by Miguel Azguime.
"In Gerald Murnane's Barley Patch, he writes of a character who, listening to music in an old timber building, would hope to find "the crowd of dust-motes that he sometimes saw swirling or drifting in a shaft of sunlight." As he listened to old records, "the movement of the specks" made him "think of energy held in check or of meaning waiting to be expressed. At any moment, the yellow motes might break out of the aimless-seeming formation and might arrange themselves far otherwise; might even comprise a set of signs requiring to be read." Theatron called this passage to mind, though instead of accompanying music, the swirling specks are the music itself: sound-motes held in suspension, loosely formed and in constant rearrangement, a set of transient signs hung delicately in the air. The 11-strong Suspensao ensemble deploys its numbers in the service of detail, rather than volume or density-an accumulation of details so fine, in fact, it's hard to tell whether some are intentionalor incidental. Each musician suspends a sound, holding it out into the space, and then another and another, sounds at times hanging in tandem, but all eventually dropping away to be replaced anew. It is music that feels too coherent to be improvised, but which you know could never have been composed. The hourlong performance is the ninth "Suspensao" piece, continuing work developed on the 2011 double-album of the same name and 2015's Jadis La Pluie Etait Bleue."-Dan Sorrells, The Free Jazz Collective