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Artist: CARL TESTA Title: Uncertainty Label: Uncertainty 01 Country: USA Format: CD Status: AVAILABLE $10.00
Description: Featuring Carl Testa on compositions, acoustic bass, bass clarinet & electronics, James Antonucci on clarinet & tenor sax, Gergely Kiss on clarinet and Bill Carbone on percussion. Carl Testa studied with and plays in Anthony Braxton's amazing 12+1-tet. What I find most interesting is that there are now a number of young musicians who have worked Mr. Braxton over the past decade and who now compose and play their own music which is influenced by Braxton yet remains unique to its own vision. Listening closely to this fine, engaging disc, you can hear some of those Braxtonian ideas which have matured into new systems and strategies. 'Uncertainly' starts with "Push" which has a quirky ghost-trance like theme played on clarinets with jazz/classical drums swirling around the fractured reed lines. I dig the odd harmonies that Carl has written for the clarinets and tenor sax, which are closer to modern classic music than to anything jazz-like. "Uncertainty (Trio)" features bent clarinet harmonies over eerie bowed percussion which is both calm and agitated at he same time. Some of this music is nearly impossible to describe since it doesn't quite sound like anything else I've encountered before. On "Pull", there is an electronics or sampled percussion sound that is completely alien to anything I've heard. Perhaps it is that Supercollider computer program that Braxton has used in his Diamond Curtain Wall Trio, but who knows for certain. It sounds as if a machine is trying to breathe and having a difficult time doing it. "Impetus" actually sounds like a smoking modern jazz quartet piece with strong tenor sax over a burning rhythm team. Carl's acoustic bass is what makes it even better and James' tenor sax is near explosive in a Trane-like way. This sounds like a completely different quartet than earlier on this disc. Carl Testa's composing remains most engaging and unique throughout this disc. I get the feeling that it will take some time to comprehend all of the many facets that he has developed since each of the ten pieces deals with different ideas, strategies and structures. - BLG
| Artist: CARL TESTA |
| Title: Uncertainty |
| Label: Uncertainty 01 Country: USA |
| Format: CD Status: AVAILABLE $10.00 |
| Description: Featuring Carl Testa on compositions, acoustic bass, bass clarinet & electronics, James Antonucci on clarinet & tenor sax, Gergely Kiss on clarinet and Bill Carbone on percussion. Carl Testa studied with and plays in Anthony Braxton's amazing 12+1-tet. What I find most interesting is that there are now a number of young musicians who have worked Mr. Braxton over the past decade and who now compose and play their own music which is influenced by Braxton yet remains unique to its own vision. Listening closely to this fine, engaging disc, you can hear some of those Braxtonian ideas which have matured into new systems and strategies. 'Uncertainly' starts with "Push" which has a quirky ghost-trance like theme played on clarinets with jazz/classical drums swirling around the fractured reed lines. I dig the odd harmonies that Carl has written for the clarinets and tenor sax, which are closer to modern classic music than to anything jazz-like. "Uncertainty (Trio)" features bent clarinet harmonies over eerie bowed percussion which is both calm and agitated at he same time. Some of this music is nearly impossible to describe since it doesn't quite sound like anything else I've encountered before. On "Pull", there is an electronics or sampled percussion sound that is completely alien to anything I've heard. Perhaps it is that Supercollider computer program that Braxton has used in his Diamond Curtain Wall Trio, but who knows for certain. It sounds as if a machine is trying to breathe and having a difficult time doing it. "Impetus" actually sounds like a smoking modern jazz quartet piece with strong tenor sax over a burning rhythm team. Carl's acoustic bass is what makes it even better and James' tenor sax is near explosive in a Trane-like way. This sounds like a completely different quartet than earlier on this disc. Carl Testa's composing remains most engaging and unique throughout this disc. I get the feeling that it will take some time to comprehend all of the many facets that he has developed since each of the ten pieces deals with different ideas, strategies and structures. - BLG |