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undecided [a family affair]|cs072
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[...] The same Rodrigues (both of them actually) appear on a quartet disc with Christine Sehnaoui (alto saxophone) and Sharif Sehnaoui (electric guitar). Guilherme Rodriguez also plays pocket trumpet on this release. The music is very vibrant again, although a bit more conventional playing here. Scraping of the violin, guitar and intense blowing in the wind instruments. It's music that leaves the listener a little breathless: very nervous and hectic playing throughout here. Frans de Waard (Vital) Joining Ernesto on viola and Guilherme on pocket trumpet and cello are Christine Sehnaoui on alto saxophone and husband Sharif on electric guitar. "Sitting On A Fence" is full of Frithian halos, expanded reverberations, low snarls and bundles of harmonics, an amorphous mantric radiation ruptured by surreptitious quivering percussion. "Flip Coins" starts with a deep drone accompanied by what sounds like a feverish gasp, before evolving into wails and wheezes layered over harmonically imbalanced abrasion and harsh angular counterpoint. About five and a half minutes in, you feel the presence of a monster about to wake up, but instead the music shifts towards scarcer, breathier configurations. "Over Turn" works in the dangerous area of barely contained restraint, the players going to pains to keep the sonic train on its tracks despite the absence of a driver. Sharif Sehnaoui’s appliance-stimulated guitar produces an endless, trance-inducing flow of electricity, while the boundary lines between the other instruments are blurred by the protective cushion of near-silence provided by the ominous and omnipresent hum. Massimo Ricci (Paris Transatlantic) A black and white portrait where timbres play the leading roles of an exchange in which fricative textures tend to predominate. Extended techniques presented from two contrasting angles, two different linguistically akin traditions. Silence, visited time and again by way of fade-outs regulates the density of long, breaking waves. Pedro Lopez (Modisti) "Undecided"- jedna z ladniejszych (co wcale nie oznacza, ze latwiejszych w odbiorze) plyt z muzyka improwizowana wydanych w ostatnim okresie - przemknela niezauwazona wsród innych pozycji opublikowanych przez hiperaktywna wytwórnie Creative Sources. Wielka szkoda, bo "rodzinna sprawa" portugalsko-libanskiego kwartetu zlozonego z ojca (Ernesto - altówka) i syna (Guilherme - wiolonczela i kieszonkowa trabka) oraz zony (Christine - saksofon) i meza (Sharif - elektryczna gitara) to porcja naprawde niezlej muzyki, której sluchanie moze dostarczyc wiele przyjemnosci zarówno poczatkujacym, jak i bardziej doswiadczonym sluchaczom wedrujacym po szlakach sonorystycznej improwizacji. "Undecided" nie uwodzi od razu. Trzeba odrobine sie postarac, by odkryc piekno delikatnych paków melodii wyrastajacych z sekatych konarów rozszerzonych technik artykulacji, jednak cierpliwi i uwazni zostana nagrodzeni. Odnajda harmonie ukryta w pozornym chaosie bolesnych jeków i cichych skarg altówki, dronowego mamrotania wiolonczeli i lamentu gitary, glebokich westchnien i stlumionych szlochów saksofonu oraz trabki, docenia interakcje pomiedzy muzykami, ich uwazne wzajemne sluchanie sie i wspólne budowanie ze szmerów, trzasków, stukotów, sprzezen, itd. intymnego muzycznego swiata. Tadeusz Kosiek (Gaz-Eta) “A family affair”? Ben rien à voir avec Sly and The Family Stone, ici s’agit de trois plages genre musiques horizontales façon impro d’ces dernières années, ça grouille, ça couine, ça grince et ça a l’air grave, ça siffle dans l’brouillard ; des matières des matières des matières, percées de ci de là dans un temps flottant... Jerôme Noetinger (Metamkine) From Creative Sources, we have Undecided (A Family Affair), a mostly acoustic release which shares idiomatic and aesthetic sensibilities with the others grouped together here. Appropriately for a disc with this title, this is music created by two families, each represented here by two members: Ernesto Rodrigues on viola and Guilherme Rodrigues on cello and pocket trumpet; and alto saxophonist Christine Sehnaoui and electric guitarist Sharif Sehnaoui. I’ve long dug the kind of guttural metallic textures this fine guitarist can summon, and to me he might be the most compelling voice here, seeming to draw the oscillating breaths and brushstrokes to him, a kind of menacing centrifugal force (most notably on the clatter and twang of “Over turn”). But the real surprise for me here is how compelling Rodrigues’ burbling work on pocket trumpet has become. It’s these two instruments I concentrate on, even though the overall textural palette tends to blend all voices together. Some heat here and there (especially on “Sitting on a fence”) but otherwise a fine simmering session. Jason Bivins (Dusted)
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