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Topic: Niescier / Reid/ Harris : Beyond Dragons reviewPosted By: snobb
Subject: Niescier / Reid/ Harris : Beyond Dragons review
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2023 at 3:10am
- - (Intakt) - WThe Polish-born German alto and soprano saxophonist https://downbeat.com/reviews/detail/new-york-trio" rel="nofollow - Angelika Niescier grew up with that transformative swirl around her, and found an illustrious career in it. This Chicago-recorded set with the prodigious cello and drums pairing of Tomeka Reid and Savannah Harris is the latest to swell Niescier’s packed discography, a list that since the millennium has joined trailblazing European and American partners on sharp-end original music, film soundtracks, nods to Coleman, Braxton and other pioneers, and sometimes all-out freefall.
The seven Niescier originals here span fast, jagged pieces with abruptly interval-vaulting themes, voice-like tone poems of quiet sax exhalations or key-fluttering sounds like beating wings, looping repeat patterns that build to percussive thrashes. The 11-minute Hic Svnt Dracones passes through whooping fast alto lines to dark, atonal, skidding cello figures, and on to a pounding finale, while Oscillating Madness is almost choral in its shivery-bowed cello chords and barely breathed sax tones.
A Dance, to Never End, a repeating horn line picked up and harmonised by the cello, winds up in a storm of tumultuous drumming. Free jazz and immense improv expertise from these three drive the urgent clamour of this music, but a composer’s ear gives it shape, drama and contrast that hold the attention tight.