Words Unspoken John Surman
Album info
Album-Release:
2024
HRA-Release:
16.02.2024
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
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- 1 Pebble Dance 06:18
- 2 Words Unspoken 06:34
- 3 Graviola 06:07
- 4 Flower in Aspic 05:22
- 5 Precipice 05:28
- 6 Around the Edges 04:19
- 7 Onich Ceilidh 08:06
- 8 Belay That 07:22
- 9 Bitter Aloe 05:11
- 10 Hawksmoor 06:52
Info for Words Unspoken
Der Albumtitel – Words Unspoken – spielt auf das unmittelbare musikalische Verständnis an, das die Mitglieder dieses Quartetts füreinander haben. "Meine Idee war es, einige musikalische Ideen zusammenzustellen, die einen kollektiven Sinn ergeben, aber immer noch offen genug sind, damit jeder von uns eigene Anreize geben kann, wie das Material gemeinsam entwickelt wird. Das Konzept funktionierte auf Anhieb. Aber ich merkte schnell, dass dafür nicht die musikalischen Ideen, sondern die Musiker verantwortlich waren." Surman und der US-amerikanische Vibraphonist Rob Waring – beide in Oslo ansässig – hatten zuvor in Johns Trio Invisible Threads mit Nelson Ayres zusammengearbeitet, aber die Verbindung mit dem norwegischen Schlagzeuger Thomas Strønen und dem britischen Gitarristen Rob Luft ist neu. Mit diesen vier schlagfertigen Spielern findet ein reger Austausch in der Musik statt, angespornt durch den ausgeprägten Melos der Themen und den improvisatorischen Erfindungsreichtum von Surman. Words Unspoken erscheint während sich das Quartett auf eine internationale Tournee vorbereitet.
John Surman, Sopransaxophon, Baritonsaxophon, Bassklarinette
Rob Luft, Gitarre
Rob Waring, Vibraphon
Thomas Strønen, Schlagzeug
Eighteen years have flashed past since the recording of “A Biography of the Rev. Absalom Dawe” but the work created in the solo albums has continued to make itself felt in the interim. Not only have there been solo concerts each year, but pieces created for solo format have found their way into the repertoire of John’s work with the Trans4mation string quartet. The entire “Road to Saint Ives” album, meanwhile, was transcribed and arranged for orchestra by Howard Moody and has since been played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Bournemouth Sinfonietta and other ensembles. The electronic pulse patterns and textures of the Surman solo idiom have also became part of the fabric of the duo music with Jack DeJohnette as on the album “Invisible Nature” (released 2002).
Yet “Saltash Bells” also re-emphasizes the uniqueness of the solo work. Nowhere else do Surman’s reeds stretch out quite as sensuously, with melodies that continue to unfold all the way to the horizon, the title track implying the clear days when you can see, and hear, forever. In the multi-tracked and delay-system pieces Surman finds an accord with the ‘other players’ which no real-time acoustic group music could duplicate. There is beautiful playing on each of his saxophones and clarinets and – listen closely to the backgrounds of “Sailing Westwards” – some effective harmonica, too – a recorded debut for an instrument Surman has toyed with since his teens.
Booklet for Words Unspoken