wounds of light |cs178

Tense textures and shadowy interplay brought to 'light' from the quartet of father/son Rodrigues, guitarist David Stackenas, and saxophonist Nuno Torres; remarkably subtle sonic improvisation. (The Squid's Ear)

I haven’t written about this CD when it came out, because I had been asked to write liner notes for it. But why shoudln’t I praise its ultra-quiet and surgically-precise form of free improvisation, with subtle yet gritty plays of textures? The Rodrigues father-and-son team delivers another bewitching performance. François Couture (Monsieur Délire)

For some mysterious reason, the first six minutes of this recording call those unwelcome awakenings begun with vexing headaches or those terribly sickening hangovers to mind and you could imagine why all the following mental images by such a listening could have been influenced by this first impression so that I could link the six minutes left over to nothing but the effect of an analgesic pill! ...and you'll understand why the harsch viola by Ernesto Rodrigues, that sort of gumbling and snoring by other sonic objects, the metallic scratching and the obstinate sawing by Guilherme Rodrigues' cello, the steady reverberating by David Stackenas'e-bows and Nuno Torres' alto saxophone of the second track could be linked to the interference in such an anguishing state of mind by some coercive "needs" as well as the third 15-minutes lasting track could be considered as the difficult attempt of rebalancing or recovering from such a condition or maybe it could just be the attempt of finding some relief out...finally! The description of an ordinary day which isn't deserving of some lines in a personal diary at all. I could be more assertive and even show off some learning by trying a comparison of the title of this improvisational issue with the notorious sentence by William Blake according to which "colours are wounds of light", but I prefer to keep my feet on the ground today! Just enjoy this listening in accorrdance of your situation or your speculative knowledge...it's up to you! Vito Camarretta (Chain DLK)

La combinaison instrumentale exploitée par cette formation, enregistrée en octobre 2008, est d’une élégante richesse : en une quarantaine de minutes et comme dans un atelier, la belle ingénierie (guitare, alto, violoncelle, saxophone alto) met en branle longerons, rabots, scies lentes, avec une vraie science des dosages et du brouillage des sources – qui peut évoquer, mutatis mutandis, certains travaux de Polwechsel. Un confort rêche, avec ce qu’il faut d’échardes pour rester sur le qui-vive… Guillaume Tarche (Le Son d Grisli)