Seductive Sabotage_音乐专辑
Seductive Sabotage
表演者: Spoon 3
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2008-03-25
唱片数: 1
出版者: Evil Rabbit
条形码: 0786497019755
专辑简介
Spoon 3:
Jodi Gilbert - voice, little instruments & live sampling
Albert van Veenendaal - (prepared) piano
Meinrad Kneer - double bass
A classic trio combination, piano, bass, voice, looking to fit in and subvert this well-known constellation. Beauty, confrontation, and adventure, teaming up with the expressive possibilities offered within this transparent setting. We want to develop and "write" new songs, using self-written or found texts, absurd, comic, and with a careful dose of pathos, the cliched anguish of emotions, juxtaposed with a sharp edge, and a tongue-in-cheek, and then mixed with the sensibilites of an improvisation. Raw emotional texts, beautiful, poetic, histrionic, and angry, crossing over into vocalise that steers far away from jazz scat singing, but looks for the grooves that underlie it all. We are exploring an electronic level, to see if we can add an additional depth to the acoustic playing. This is not new, but the emphasis is on the how the acoustic and electronic components interact and build on the material to add a fuller dimension. It is not necessary to find something new with this technology, as the technology is so complex,and this complexity is not interesting to us. We are using the electronics and making choices on the spot to create a human world of sound. If we can at least once get the audience to bounce in their seats. or smile at the absurdity of it all, then we have touched the heart of the matter.
There are singers who can sing beautiful songs, and there are singers who can do exciting improvisations. There are few that can do both. From the select few, there is one in Amsterdam who is for years underappreciated: the American Jodi Gilbert. In the new trio, Spoon 3, she finds at her side, the Evil Rabbit creators, Albert van Veenendaal (piano) and Meinrad Kneer( bass). With them she has found the perfect collaborators that feel just at home with strong structures as unplanned musical adventures. In the first number on the CD Seductive Sabotage, is there an immediate hit. “No No Know No Rest/The Box/The Third Arm, shows exactly what this trio is capable of. Van Veenendaal and Kneer open strongly, in the manner reminiscent of Paul Bley and Gary Peacock. When Gilbert joins, she improvises a beautiful vocalise (song without text) with Kneer. Then the rhythmically strong pianistic of Albert van Veenendaal joins, and there emerges a song that for me brings up associations of the German/English cult band Slapp Happy (with singer Dagmar Krause, who also possesses such a clear instrument as Gilbert). The next piece, Spoons, offers an exciting soundscape with bowed bass and well-placed samples. These are just a few examples of the agility of the trio. Humor, passion, stillness, raw abrasive impro, abstract cowboy sounds (The Prairie), gamelan-like prepared piano, unprecedented vocal sounds, ultra-short miniatures, intimacy, wild climaxes, everything is there. And above all, also well- dosed, because the ability to successfully use improvisations at the right moment (and in time) is unfortunately an artform that not everyone understands.
Herman te Loo, Jazzflits, juni 2008
