Carlo Actis Dato & Laura Culver (Duo + Due) - Dune (1991)

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Artist: Carlo Actis Dato & Laura Culver (Duo + Due)
Title: Dune
Year Of Release: 1991
Label: Splasc(H) Records[CD H 354-2]
Genre: Jazz, Free Improvisation
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log)
Total Time: 74:10
Total Size: 399 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01. Cabo Verde (Actis Dato) - 6:12
02. Papaye (Actis Dato) - 5:29
03. Radetzky Tango (Actis Dato) - 5:50
04. Izmir (Actis Dato) - 7:54
05. Rogo di Streghe (Actis Dato) - 4:56
06. Toto' (Actis Dato) - 4:38
07. Muse Miste (Culver) - 7:22
08. Ketchup (Actis Dato) - 8:59
09. Gallinara (Actis Dato) - 4:39
10. Mar del Plata (Actis Dato) - 6:03
11. Carovana (Actis Dato) - 5:53
12. Saltimbanchi (Actis Dato) - 6:15

personnel :

Carlo Actis Dato - bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
Laura Culver - cello, soprano saxophone, berimbau
Alex Rolle - percussion, xylophone
Massimo Barbiero - drums, marimba

Italian reed and woodwind king Carlo Actis Dato co-leads a group with cellist and soprano saxophonist Laura Culver that includes two more percussionists in the personages of Alex Rolle and Massimo Barbiero, who use marimbas and xylophones as well as drums. Over ten pieces that are supposedly improvisations, this quartet, or double duo as it were, manages to alter the languages of rhythm and melody as they relate to one another throughout the world. (But don't get any ideas, this is not world music in the marketing sense of the term.) The reason for the word "supposedly" comes into play on the very first track, "Cabo Verde," where sequences of baritone saxophone are blown toward rhythm patterns on both of the malleted instruments that respond in kind and are further sweetened by a cello playing in perfect counterpoint a fairly elaborate series of phrases that are repeated over and over again in a game of musical cat and mouse. Also, the long lines of Dato's bass clarinet are elegant as they dance with the deep sonance of Culver's cello on "Papaye." The longer the record plays, the more elaborate the scenarios become, with percussion instruments playing melodies that are externally harmonized by Dato and Culver before turning them on their head, changing their shape, and returning them as a folk dance ("Gallinara"). And through it all, the range of emotions is vulnerable, tender, and full of openness. The elegance of this music suggests that this cannot be improvised; the listener can let that go and drift into the quiet majesty of these gorgeous "songs."~ Thom Jurek

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