There isn’t a better description for this Scandinavian trio of women (yes, women only, even free improvisation is male-dominated, let’s not forget about it), than the one that opens the liner notes on bandcamp’s page for this CD: an ongoing conversation between the three musicians about, I will add, the vulgarities, atrocities, sonorities and small wonderful gestures of everyday life.
With a very basic instrumentation, just voices, a prepared piano, a trumpet, a flute and some small objects, the three musicians collaborate in creating a sonic environment about the human condition. Collective improvisation could be the key word to describe what happens on this CD, but the listener will find strong fragments of chamber music and small vignettes of miniscule sounds that delve and mingle like a radio playing randomly while you perform boring everyday chores.
As a listener I have been exposed, like so many of us I believe, to great recordings and musics with grandeur and big intentions. It’s the small gestures, the mini scales that nowadays I seek. This cd is exactly that. But, there needs to be an explanation here, not because this is not important music or just because it is just music to relax. Quite the contrary. The music the three musicians produce is precise, intense and urgent. It is also, maybe the most important of them all, so personal that immediately sets my alarm for greatness.
It is becoming normality but Relative Pitch has nailed it again, producing an album of profound beauty that defies categorization.
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