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Viaggio
Imaginario
Tomasz
Stanko trumpet
Nicolas Simion reeds
Christian Muthspiel guitar
Ed Schuller bass
Peter Perfido drums
Angus Bangus Thomas el-bass
Jamey Haddad percussion
Titles:
1. Geamparale
2. Viaggio Imaginario
3. Allegro Furioso
4. Requiem For Flying Eagle
5. Saint Nick's Groove
6. Poem For Paula
7. Jumping' Kalushary
8. Promenade Avec Christine
9. In & Out Underground>
Producers:
Nicolas Simion & Peter Wiessmueller
Recording & Mixing: Stephan Benkö
Location: Studio Benkö, Vienna, 23 & 24 April, 1995
(c) & (p) 1999 Pasparamas Music
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SOARING
PACE OF THE MIGRANT BIRD
The creativity
of the artist is conditioned by the directions and indirections
of his soul. Nicolas Simion's fifth album with Tutu Records
is based on the description of such paths through the landscapes
of the soul. Whoever lets himself in for the mythical world
of this Odyssey with open ears, will feel musical archetypes
and personal, individual experience flow together and light
up as in a mirror. The famous, not to say notorious films
within oneself begin to reel off, from brightly coloured
to pastel shades, full of dramatic beauty, yet never neglecting
the bizarre.
Simion's themes and improvisation in Balkan colouring, are
however also mythical shapes, sculpting themselves into
symbols, appealing to something characteristic and primeval
within us, reaching deep into the unconscious layers of
our existence, emerging slowly at various points, to penetrate
the consciousness; not infrequently, this last
occurs in the aftermath, in retrospect, after having listened
... a very special sign of quality. Never forgetting that
this is about pure jazz, about the melting together of diverse
elements and their improvisational recurrence. This runs
through the entire album like a leitmotif. Myths of the
past reach out into the future.
In the process, Nicolas Simion takes recourse to the collective
unconscious in a masterly fashion,spawning musical creations
in the primordial waters of the human predicament. Those
who assist him here have been his travelliung companions
for quite a while now: Tomasz Stanko and Ed Schuller. Along
with the creator of this album, both have a congenial knowledge
of how to steer out of these archaic waters, towards a more
discriminating musical perception - a quickening process;
sudden meetings and experiences, though mostly old and familiar,
are found here none-the-less in new robes, appearing in
a completely different light....
Jazzdimensions
about 'Viaggio Imaginario'
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