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Friends & Neighbors: Circles
ByCircles follows The Earth Is # (Clean Feed, 2021) and is the quintet's sixth recording. Besides a stable lineup, each musician contributes compositions to this session. Opening with "Cecil," and a sprinkling of Cecil Taylor's keyboard plunk and dance, the quintet articulates both a shambolic and organized sound. The music is both free and disciplined at the same time as if the compositions are saying we digested revolutionary ideas of the 1960s, let's now polish them a bit. The title track has the fragrance of Pharoah Sanders and Albert Ayler with the trumpet of Thomas Johansson then Andre Roligheten's constructions. "Latin Phonetics" pairs Tollef Østvang's drums with first Oscar Grönberg's piano attack followed by a tight ensemble sound that spins outward with solos by Johansson and Roligheten. While we use iconic jazz musicians as references for this music, this quintet Friends & Neighbors is nothing if not original. Bassist Jon Rune Strøm's "Hymn Infinitum" trades in a melancholic mellowness that resides both as a chamber music piece and improvisatory platform. The music is fearless and original as it flies in a parrot-free zone.
Track Listing
Cecil; Circles; Ghost March; Son; Charles; Hymn Infinitum; Latin Phonetics.
Personnel
Friends & Neighbors
band / ensemble / orchestraAndre Roligheten
saxophone, tenorThomas Johansson
trumpetOscar Grönberg
pianoJon Rune Strøm
bassTollef Østvang
drumsAlbum information
Title: Circles | Year Released: 2024 | Record Label: Clean Feed
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