[Album review] Culture Jazz | Malaby / Dumoulin / Ber – Trees On Wheels

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Recorded in several locations, mainly in November 2022 if we except track 7 captured in 2015, this album entirely dedicated to improvisation carries within it a strange sonic magic. This music, whose form is born from the absence of form, is contained within a flow containing other flows; it spreads out like a lake where opposing currents collide, all necessary for the ecosystem to function. Definitely organic, despite the effects of Jozef Dumoulin’s keyboards, it develops on rhythmic breaks, chromatics marked by oddities, chopped breaths and flights vaster than a windy silence. Permanently, it feeds on itself and the emanations it lets seep between the notes. Each musician resonates for their peers, builds their part of a universe that tends towards a fluid and never coarse expressivity. The humanity that vibrates throughout this recording is that of poets, of lovers of the otherwise said, of the living who know that time escapes, failing to know where. Totally essential.

 

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