Saxophonist Martin Küchen (Angles) joins together with the Landaeus Trio of pianist Martin Landaeus, double bassist Johnny Aman, and drummer Cornelia Lisson, augmenting the sophisticated lyricism of the Landaeus piano trio with an atypically lyrical voice from Kuchen, as they are recorded in front of a live audience in the Gula Studion in Malmo, Sweden.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2020 Country: Portugal Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded live at Gula Studion in Malmo, Sweden on March 14th, 2019, by David Carlsson.
Personnel:
Martin Kuchen-soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
"In this new opus coming from Sweden, poly-saxophonist Martin Kuchen joins the Landaeus Trio, not only adding his instruments to the band led by pianist Mathias Landaeus but also his immediately recognizable personal compositions, full of Scandinavian folk-like melodies and complex African-inspired pulsations.
The curious result of this encounter, Mind the Gap of Silence is simultaneously more abstract and more melodic than anything done before by Kuchen and the Landaeus Trio in their separate ways on the fields of creative jazz. And that is unexpected, considering that abstraction and melodism travel different paths. The emotion is raw, but always in equilibrium with a kind of beauty you can't describe with words, everything happening as if in slow fire.
And no, what you'll find here has little to do with the several complexions of Kuchen's Angles project. It's something else entirely, with much to discover and to savor. Who could expect that the Landaeus Trio's very characteristic mix of passion and introspective subtlety would marry so well with his ideas? Have a good journey..."-Clean Feed