Joelle Leandre & Eric Watson - Palimpseste (1992)

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Title: Palimpseste
Year Of Release: 1992
Label: hat ART
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks) | Mp3 / 320kbps
Total Time: 48:09
Total Size: 164 MB | 109 MB
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Tracklist
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01. Noctiluque 07:18
02. Volatile 07:37
03. Diagonales 02:12
04. Sans Y Toucher 02:31
05. Sédiments De Sentiments 04:38
06. Colimaзons 06:23
07. Pistil 02:20
08. The Beautiful Socrates 03:20
09. Bricole Love Call 04:42
10. Gerçures 03:13
11. Accrod Parfait 03:55

This creation by god-like bassist Joëlle Léandre and pianist Eric Watson is a genuinely rare recording. It brings two musicians from different traditions together -- the classical world (Watson) and the world of free improvisation and jazz (Léandre) -- and allows them to create a music that is neither genre, but is composed spontaneously. The first three tracks are led by Watson, whose piano sparingly submits musical palindromes for observance by Léandre, who then contributes not just what would be considered "rhythm," but literally, everything that is missing: melody, harmony, syncopation, modality, and so on. Her bow, plucked strings, and amazingly symmetrical runs, along with Watson's keyboard, reveal not instinct and discipline (who would attempt such a thing if they didn't possess at least these elements?) but deep empathy -- deep listening to what the silences call for so that an actual composition may be fleshed out. On Léandre's pieces, such as "Sediments of Sentiments," smaller textural studies are juxtaposing, reaching vocal extremities; meanwhile, Watson plays the piano's wood as a rhythm section. Gorgeously operatic, the work builds in tension and lush angularity until it literally disappears into the aether. Ultimately, that's what all 11 of these works create themselves from one or two sets of ideas -- they develop them to the breaking point and just vanish, leaving the listener in equal states of satisfaction and anticipation. Whether this work will ultimately be tagged as "classical" music or "free improvisation" is anybody's guess -- either way, it would be wrong. There is no umbrella to float this highly original series of miniatures under. It is, in its most pure and beautiful form, music.~Palimpseste Review by Thom Jurek


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