Wade Matthews - bass clarinet Leonel Kaplan - trumpet Diego Chamy - percussion Listen / Download in HQ (Right Click > Save) Recorded live at Blanco y Negro Restaurant, Colonia, Uruguay, March 22, 2003  Wade Matthews, Leonel Kaplan and Diego Chamy trio performance at mínim
festival (Centre Cívic Can Felipa, Barcelona. May 28-29, 2004)The
trio of Wade Matthews (bass clarinet and laptop), Diego Chamy
(percussion), and Leonel Kaplan (trumpet) opened the festival with its
longest performance, at 55 minutes nearly twice the length of any other.
Kaplan’s low profile of vaguely pitched, cyclical spitty-noise;
Matthews’ subtly lyrical keyclicks, multiphonics, and drones; and
Chamy’s ritualistic percussion setup (a single bass drum laid flat atop a
swivel that allowed him to spin the drum while applying pine cones,
superballs, a jawharp, a handheld microtape recorder, and various
brushes and cymbals to its head for minutes at a time) formed distinct
voices which moved around each other nimbly, almost polyphonically. This
tightness and internal energy provided a drive which belied the static
nature of the group’s material, creating explosive changes of
perspective from otherwise unspectacular circumstances. A few noteworthy
moments included the beginning, when while sandwiched between his
quiet, seated companions Chamy dove into his gyrating drum like cold
water, Matthews and Kaplan nailing the imaginary downbeat to the
millisecond; and a typical but refined silence in the middle of the set
which was broken by another crisply attacked drum drone as if to subsume
the gesture into drama – but was revisited by Matthews’ gentle
repetitive computer chirps entering shortly thereafter.Christopher Williams (The Improvisor) |