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Quartet Noir span a significant body of experience -
individually, first of all, and then in various ensemble groupings. Urs Leimgruber and Fritz Hauser share an
extended history, as a duo, and bassist makes three - Joëlle
Léandre is a longstanding partner. Marilyn Crispell
has worked with Leimgruber and Hauser at least since 1994. Nor is this their initial convergence as
quartet: see their previous eponymous Victo release from 1999. How do these
experiences combine into a single groupthink? Given what we may know about them in
other contexts, risks are inevitable - remember, this is improvisation, before and
after - and indeterminacy reigns. But in this case, experience provides continuity,
and collaboration proves the process of tacit agreement. All music seems to flow,
of course, in the ear/mind of the listener, and this is one reason why Quartet Noir’s long-form improvisations create an ambience
filled with details that are new and unfamiliar, and yet may be experienced as
whole, cohesive, and satisfying - unpredictable, but not unknown. It is possible to
be comfortable within the environment they create, which has been influenced by
past experiences (theirs, in what they have done; ours, by what we have heard) and
collaborative efforts in the here-and-now, and which takes a form dependent as much
upon our sense of receptive engagement as their actively creative interaction. The
joy is in the ear of the beholder, then and now. UPC / EAN 777405009623 actuellecd.com Quartet Noir: Lugano: description |
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