https://soundcloud.com/dorbon/5-imbued-with-light-steve-swells-imbued-with-light

muzycy:
Steve Swell: trombone
Herb Robertson: trumpet, toys
Ben Stapp: tuba
Sara Schoenbeck: bassoon
Chris Hoffman: cello
Robert Boston: piano
Harris Eisenstadt: drums, percussion

Editor's info
Continuing his series of hommages to classical composers, New York trombonist Steve Swell assembles his sextet to improvise under the influence of Russian composer Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006), whose truly unique "out of the box" approach to structuring sound brings force and intensity to Swell's compositions, yielding inspired performances from all musicians.

Liner Notes
"One of the great pleasures of listening to music is discovering a new artist you love. It kindles a special "wow" reaction whenever you hear a new sound that touches you. It's the reaction that Steve Swell had when he first heard the music of Russian composer Galina Ustvolskaya. "I just thought, this is so off the charts. How can anybody be doing this?" Swell said. "It's just so out of the box, especially for the time she was composing."
Born in St. Petersburg in 1919, Ustvolskaya studied with Dmitri Shostakovich in the 1940s, but didn't start composing in her characteristic style until around 1950. Ustvolskaya's compositions can startle any listener with their focus and intensity. And as Swell listened to Ustvolskaya's work, certain elements resonated with him. For instance, on "Hammer," Robert Boston's hard piano blows echo the explosively rhythmic urgency of Ustvolskaya's music. Her pieces thunder on the edge of a precipice, calling to God, waiting for a reply that never returns from across the void.
In contrast, Swell's music--as iconoclastic in its own way as Ustvolskaya's--is bustling and social, spontaneous, lively with sudden contrasts in tempo and mood, balanced but irregular in outline. Enfolded into Swell's compositions, Boston's sharp, clear chords buttress discursive eighth note melodies like a demented Bud Powell, or they add an element of contrast in more peaceful surroundings, or become another rogue element of unpredictability in Swell's multilayered, radically unstable narratives. Swell uses that steady rhythm as a contra.......
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