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Currents | 
 enlarge | Artists: Wolfert Brederode, Claudio Puntin, Mats Eilertsen, Samuel Rohrer
Label: ECM Records
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 58186
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 001158102
UPC: 602517144552
EAN: 0602517144552
ASIN: B000TLPW1W
Release Date: August 19, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Common Fields | | • | Empty Room | | • | As You July Me | | • | High & Low | | • | With Them | | • | Frost Flower | | • | Scarabee | | • | Desiderata | | • | Soil | | • | Ebb | | • | Barcelona |
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Album Description
The gentle pulsations of the piano of Wolfert Brederode have played a significant role on April and Compass, ECM recordings of singer Susanne Abbuehl. Now the Dutch pianist (born 1974, in Wassenaar near Den Haag) steps forward to lead a group of gifted players - clarinettist Claudio Puntin and drummer Samuel Rohrer from Switzerland, and Norwegian bassist Mats Eilertsen - all of whom commit their improvisational energies to the lyric flow of his music, its chamber music sensibility, and the slow-drifting currents of its river of sound. Currents, recorded at Oslo's Rainbow Studio, is Brederode's ECM leader debut. Distinctive in its own right, Brederode's music can also be viewed in the wider context of the developing `traditions' of chamber jazz. The quartet's contrapuntal improvising and its melodies, shared between clarinet and piano, may bring to mind vintage Jimmy Giuffre and Paul Bley collaborations, important influences on music at ECM: the harmonic palette of the Giuffre 3, of course, drew influence from 20th century composition, as do these players. Wolfert Brederode studied classical and jazz piano at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and clarinettist Claudio Puntin is active in both jazz and contemporary music - he has worked with, for example, the Ensemble Modern. Brederode's touch as a player is a poetic one, aptly so given the ongoing collaboration with singer Susanne Abbuehl. Susanne is co-composer of one piece here, the E.E. Cummings-inspired "As You July Me", a piece from the Abbuehl band repertoire. Everything else here on Currents is from the leader's pen.
Album Description
The gentle pulsations of the piano of Wolfert Brederode have played a supportive role on the ECM recordings of Susanne Abbuehl. Now the Dutch keyboardist leads a pan-European group of similar gifted young players.
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Carried away by currents! September 18, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Currents, the new cd from the Wolfert Brederode Quartet, is one of the better releases from the current crop of ECM artists -and that's saying alot with all the excellent new music from Bobo Stenson, Norma Winstone, The Marcin Wasilewski Trio and Mathias Eick! (all have strong, new ECM releases out and are highly recommended) I bought this on impulse after reading that Wolfert Brederode was the pianist on Susanne Abbuehl's sublime "April" cd. As on that album, this quartet features a clarinetist prominently. The music? All the usual ECM adjectives apply-it's wistful, beautiful, ethereal, haunting and has me playing it on heavy rotation! I was especially impressed with the light airy quality the quartet achieves and how it never lapsed into self-indulgence. Piano, clarinet,double bass and drums spin a delicate and melodic web. Don't let the unfamillar name scare you off-this ones a jem.
David Tagtmeier
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