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And perhaps I should add a remark on recent digital-only release Egin, pairing the two Rodrigueses & Masing in a quintet, this time with Tomo Jacobson on bass & Mia Dyberg on alto sax, neither of whom had appeared in this space previously: It's yet another appealing album, sometimes aggressive after starting on harmonics, and also apparently focusing on mental or emotional transition for the listener via a variety of evocations amid wave-like explorations of continuity — although it's rather short. I also feel compelled to note that it already appeared on Bandcamp the day after it was recorded, in Berlin, this month! Todd McComb's Jazz Thoughts Tomo leads here a amazing quintet session with my beloved Portuguese string players: Ernesto and Guilherme Rodrigues, the father and the son. Tomo himself says: "There is no leader, there is only music", and, of course he is right, but I had to choose the entry for this album so I chose Tomo. The quintet includes also two Danes: Elo Masing on violin and Mia Dyberg on alto. "Egin " is a 30 minutes long excursion into the land of free... sonorism. Krzysztof Penderecki introduced this avantgarde direction in the late 1950s expressing the |