My review of Colin Vallon‘s Rruga has been pubbed over at Music is Good. After the lead-in paragraph, you can follow the link to read the read of the article at MiG.
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The ECM catalog is filled with piano trio albums of austerity and minimalism. For a piano trio to approach an album with a Doing More With Less minimalism is a daring venture, because the high risk is a drowsy album that ends up sounding flimsy and thin or, worse perhaps, lounge music for the late night dinner set. It’s not an easy thing to do, the peaceful piano trio recording.
The choice of notes has to be impeccable, since there ain’t gonna be as many to offer the listener. Honor has to be paid to the silence, and used as effectively as the sound made from the black and whites. Bass and drums have to be more than just tools of accompaniment, but in the framework of the quiet piano trio, they need to be sure to only use their Inside Voices. And then there’s the compositions themselves… (read the rest of the article, HERE, at Music is Good).
Your album personnel: Colin Vallon (piano), Patrice Moret (double bass), and Samuel Rohrer (drums).
Released on the ECM Records label in 2011, and one of the year’s best.
Jazz from the Bern, Switzerland scene.
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Apr 30 2012
Colin Vallon – “Rruga”
My review of Colin Vallon‘s Rruga has been pubbed over at Music is Good. After the lead-in paragraph, you can follow the link to read the read of the article at MiG.
*****
The choice of notes has to be impeccable, since there ain’t gonna be as many to offer the listener. Honor has to be paid to the silence, and used as effectively as the sound made from the black and whites. Bass and drums have to be more than just tools of accompaniment, but in the framework of the quiet piano trio, they need to be sure to only use their Inside Voices. And then there’s the compositions themselves… (read the rest of the article, HERE, at Music is Good).
Your album personnel: Colin Vallon (piano), Patrice Moret (double bass), and Samuel Rohrer (drums).
Released on the ECM Records label in 2011, and one of the year’s best.
Jazz from the Bern, Switzerland scene.
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