Ivo Perelman - Introspection

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 79:20
Size: 187,3 MB
Art: Front

( 5:38)  1. Introspection
( 9:50)  2. Karmic Forces
( 8:40)  3. Divine Awareness
( 8:18)  4. Extended Consciousness
(14:56)  5. Spiritual Destiny
( 4:27)  6. Self-Forgiveness
( 5:56)  7. All Power Emanates From One Source
(10:44)  8. Angel of Forgetfulness
(10:47)  9. Faith

In no uncertain terms: the Brazilian Ivo Perelman with this remarkable recording confirms himself as one of the most important tenor saxophonists of the free-of-today scene. Perelman has favored the trio formula, a training that allows him to act with the necessary freedom of expression and with which he recorded his latest work Black on White for the Portuguese Clean Feed. On Introspection instead we find him at the helm of a quartet that includes the violinist Rosie Hertlein. It is a group of musicians, however, with 'variable geometry', for example "Divine Awareness" is a duo between Dominic Duval's leader and powerful double bass, while other songs develop into a trio, without drums or without contrabass ( "All Power Emanates from One Force"). The magnetism of a series of songs constructed with extreme concentration and a deep sense of the construction of the sentence, however, also lies in this alternation of formulas. Perelman and the violinist do not disdain magmatic moments, as in "Karmic Forces", balding the ghosts of a free historian who is always around the corner and never denied. But the whole album takes place on other coordinates, escaping the temptation to offer a music in which the expressiveness of the gesture prevails over any formal preoccupation. There is a precise way to structure palpitating and intense atmospheres for a path that exploits dilated spaces without rhetoric or pretentiousness, simply necessary in order to allow to express everything possible. The solos are developed along arcs of tension that intertwine with the rhythm in a coherent whole, without flaws or moments in search of a common thread. A free structured therefore, and yet participates in the shady, dark, spontaneous contents in their long unraveling, witness of a mainly interior artistic growth, without which so much balance and spirituality of intent would end up slipping without escape in the daily routine. Perelman chose not only music but also abstract painting as a means of expression. The paintings inside the booklet are, like the music, the testimony of an artist in continuous growth.~  AAJ ITALY STAFF https://www.allaboutjazz.com/introspection-ivo-perelman-leo-records-review-by-aaji-staff.php

Personnel: Ivo Perelman (tenor saxophone); Rosie Hertlein (violin); Dominic Duval (double bass); Newman Baker (drums)

Introspection

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