Guitarist Henk Zwerver leads this collective free improvising band in their second release, now extended to a septet with the addition of Salvoandrea Lucifero on trombone, joining Zwerver: Ziv Taubenfeld on bass clarinet, Luis Vicente on trumpet, Nico Chientaroli on piano, Raoul ven der Weide on double bass, objects, and George Hadow on drums.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2018 Country: Portugal Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded at Zaal 100, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on December 14th, 2017, by Niels Brouwer.
"Few musicians from the Portuguese scene of creative jazz and free on improvisation have gained, like Luis Vicente, the international importance that we are witnessing for the news of their concerts outside the doors and the record releases in which we find it with musicians from the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Poland. This is the case of the new Music From Any Moment, released by the Zwerv band now converted from a quintet to a septet with the addition of trombonist Salvoandrea Lucifera and pianist Nico Chientaroli.
If the first record we heard with guitarist Henk Zwerver, Ziv Taubenfeld (bass clarinet), Raoul van der Weide (bass) and George Hadow (drums), Zwerv Live, was defined by the jazz of Eric Dolphy and Booker Little, here they are given over to free expression of the typically textural approaches to improvisation in the mole of their strongest stylistic lines, the British, as defined by figures like Derek Bailey (Zwerver's major influence), Evan Parker, John Stevens and Cornelius Cardew.
Still, and although little survives in this context of the matrices of the post on bop and of the free, the pointillism and the "bricolage" sound of this Zwerv has few relations to the "new school" of the improvised music and, in particular, with reductionism. Not only because there is nothing minimalist, or assumption of the aesthetics of silence, in the eight pieces assembled: the players do not hesitate to resort to repetitions of motifs and to phrase melodically and tonally when it makes sense, at times taking on an orchestral dimension.
The strategy they follow places them between the improvisational tradition born in the 1960s and the latest trends in this area of creative music. Vicente is like a fish in water, sometimes using the trumpet as emitter of borborygmus, sometimes acting in more conventional ways, always at the service of the timbre game that is being equated by the swarms of sound. Although his instrument, like all the others, sometimes dominates, this is a collective song, the very reason why there are no proper solos.
In their interaction of roles the group functions as a micro on society not organized hierarchically, but fulfilling the libertarian designs that gave origin to this musical practice, and that sometimes have been forgotten. A very recommended CD, therefore." on Rui Eduardo Paes, Jazz.pt, translated by Google & Squidco