Ivo Perelman / Arcado String Trio
Fundajci Sluchaj
Who knows how many of you know that the whimsical Brazilian musician Ivo Perelman, now a New York citizen, was a student of classical guitar first and then of cello as a child. To listen to him, disruptive and irrepressible, alongside pianist Matthew Shipp, through a wide discography all marked by improvisation, would seem unthinkable. And yet Perelman has such a pronounced musical sensitivity that he is able to make albums alongside stringed-instrument musicians, as has already happened with the Strings series of albums, certainly more devoted to the classical language.
And here is our ability to bring together three musicians like Mark Feldman on violin, Mark Dresser on double bass and William Hank Roberts on cello. They are the three members of the Arcado String Trio in full activity between the late eighties and early nineties, before their individual careers took them away from this successful union. Deep Resonance is the delicious product of Perelman's encounter with the trio, through four tracks all based on improvisation that comes from the creative extemporaneity of these musicians.
The opening track sees the four protagonists weave a dialogue made above all of mutual listening and rhythmic interaction. Perelman moulds the sound of his sax on the same sound registers of the strings and hints at a melody in various moments that the others take up and vary according to their inspiration. What emerges is a gentle, fluctuating magma, dense with assonances, an intense interplay in absolute freedom of expression. The tones rise, the ambient becomes vibrant, every executive portion, every passage is essential in the mosaic imbued with inspiration and inventiveness.
The next track "Resonance 2" begins with a short phrasing of the sax in an almost classical-contemporary ambient. Varied facets follow one by one while the piece accumulates tension. The listener has no reason or occasion to distract himself from listening, everything surprises and fascinates while the sax often reaches the high registers of the violin and the two instruments express themselves in unison. "Resonance 3" is rhythmically sustained, dynamic in its unfolding, the interaction is charged with energy and expressive urgency, the ambient is more refined and intriguing and certain sounds appear extreme.
On the refinement and sound extremes is also developed "Resonance 4" that closes the album. The pizzicato of violin with which the track opens leaves room for the chirping of Perelman's saxophone, in a vortex of fascinating and unpredictable sounds, while the incessant rhythmic energy rises, clings, fades, modulating in perfect synergy with the development of the track.
A great work this Deep Resonance, half signed by one of the most ductile and whimsical musicians of contemporary jazz, such as Ivo Perelman, his already huge discography is enriched by another masterpiece that bears for the other half the signature of a super trio, which is the Arcado String Trio. Certainly among the best works of this singular 2020, Deep Resonance has to be listened again and again to capture every essential trait of a work that surprises and illuminates at every listening.
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