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| SAKINA ABDOU'S NEW ALBUM HAMMER, ROLL AND LEAF SAKINA ABDOU'S NEW ALBUM Rising Star of European improvised music Sakina Abdou releases her new Studio Album. Out on November 29th 2024 Sakina ABDOU : Alto and tenor Saxophones Marta WARELIS : Piano Toma GOUBAND : Drums, stones and leaves Surrounded by the astral touch of the Polish pianist and the vegetal strike of the French drummer, the saxophonist will be releasing her first trio album on the New York label "Relative Pitch Records" in autumn 2024, giving her a second "carte blanche". A free music, playing with the dilution of themes, exploring the idea of collective play as if caressing a torn canvas, celebrating the idea of a fabric woven from bits and pieces, shot through with ashes, echoes and ghosts, like a taut thread that binds, connects, stretches and contains multiple stories. The saxophonist Sakina Abdou follows up her first solo album with this trio release, which has all the freshness of a very first encounter.The album is the fruit of an improvised, closed session of several days in her home, punctuated by two concerts, and offers an arc of 60 minutes that retraces a musical itinerary that is intimate and acoustic. We have previously heard Toma Gouband with Evan Parker and the pianist Marta Warelis with Dave Douglas and Andy Moor. Sakina Abdou first played with Gouband in Will Guthrie's gamelan ensemble Nist-Nah, and Warelis in the frenetic Amsterdam improvisational collective Doek. With this archetypal line-up and a singular history, this wide variation already gives us a taste of the vast, mysterious and unimagined musical territory they will explore together, as well as the wide range of influences and possible references that can be generated at any moment in a space that pushes this many boundaries. " No matter when, her sound is emotional and evocative, steeped in some kind of blues, one that connects pasts and presents with imagination and verve. " Scott Thomson - "FIMAV" "She can be as fiery as she is fierce, but what has impressed me about Goodbye Ground is Abdou's ability to bring moments of swing-derived blowing to the equation, evoking Lee Konitz as much as Peter Brötzmann. She spent two months at home recording the album, which draws upon a number of strategies, but in the end it becomes clear that Abdou masterfully balances spontaneity and structure. She's definitely one to watch. " Peter Margasak - The QUIETUS " This isn't just a display of brilliant technique : Abdou's playing packs an emotional punch. " Stewart Smith for " We JAZZ " "She can be as fiery as she is fierce, but what has impressed me about Goodbye Ground is Abdou's ability to bring moments of swing-derived blowing to the equation, evoking Lee Konitz as much as Peter Brötzmann. She spent two months at home recording the album, which draws upon a number of strategies, but in the end it becomes clear that Abdou masterfully balances spontaneity and structure. She's definitely one to watch. " Peter Margasak - The QUIETUS " Tenor saxophonist Sakina Abdou passes through warm melody to strangled, passionate squall with grace and reason, somehow both calm and electrifying, suggesting the recently passed Pharoah Sanders but in her own voice. " Stuart Broomer for "The FREE JAZZ COLLECTIVE" "C'est une musique de paradoxe : ŕ la fois aérienne, dans ses soudaines bifurcations et diablement terrestre, plantée dans la raucité des anches." - Franpi Barriaux pour "CITIZEN JAZZ" " The five-part " Planting Chairs " explores a range of colors and techniques, united by Abdou's supreme focus and emotional openness. " Stewart Smith for "The WIRE" Based in Lille, France, saxophonist Sakina Abdou explores free improvisation and broadly experimental contemporary music with the likes of Eve Risser's Red Desert Orchestra, Raymond Boni, Satoko Fujii, and the daring experimental collective, Muzzix. On Goodbye Ground, her debut album for the New York label Relative Pitch Records, her multifaceted identity really shines through: here is a powerful sound, both precise and row, sometimes caustic, sometimes full of grace and quietude. write your comments about the article :: © 2024 Jazz News :: home page |