Saso Popovski Trio - Fallen Land (2020)

The music of Saso Popovski is music of pure lines, concluded structures and lush imagination. Rhythmically and also melodically, his music alludes to Oriental patterns, which makes it a bit mystical. But there is nothing hermetically in it, as some of these kind of music excursions to Orient can be... Popovski organizes his compositions around a beautifully derived, clear, appealing melodious line, which is unmistakably supported by a bass player with a velvet sound and a drummer with consistent, concentrated rhythmization. Popovski finely enhance the basic river-like melody, carefully meanders through its possible by-paths and streams, but never loses the basic thread. With its strong suggestiveness - thanks to the repetitiveness of certain motifs - Popovski's music has dreamlike and cinematic effects. One another thing to be stressed is the coherence of members' musicianship and the very sound of trio - which is smoothed and crystal clear, but at the same time it does not work artificially; instead, it is completely organic and "present".