Sidereus Nuncius - The Starry Messenger - Maya Recordings: MCD1801 - CD or download

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One of the great elder statesmen of European improvised music, Guy has done some of his best work in orchestral settings over the years, but these two duos with very different musical personalities... — Jazzwise, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 26th Oct 2018
Catalogue No: MCD1801
Label: Maya Recordings
Length: 59 minutes

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Ramón López, Barry Guy: Time Loop

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Ramón López, Barry Guy: Afterglow

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This release on Maya Recordings documents a duo collaboration of avant-garde jazz bass legend Barry Guy together with the exceptional percussionist Ramon Lopez. Barry Guy: “It was at Ramon Lopez’ suggestion that we record as a duo in the downtime of another studio session, and perhaps it was his constellation of drums and cymbals that prompted the thought of a metaphorical planetary system. So ‘Sidereus Nuncius - The Starry Messenger’ the title of Galileo Galilei’s short astronomical treatise published in early 1610, did not necessarily stretch the imagination unduly - there it was in front of me!

Galilei’s telescopic observations of the moon and other celestial bodies for the first time illuminated details of planets near and far in our solar system. In a not dissimilar way, the studio microphones act like a telescope, bringing details of our own musical cosmos into sharp definition, illuminating the sometimes craggy terrain of our deliberations, but also observing the more spacious musical topography.”

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March 2019

One of the great elder statesmen of European improvised music, Guy has done some of his best work in orchestral settings over the years, but these two duos with very different musical personalities are powerful reminders of both his immense virtuosity and sharp reflexes in a stripped down, exposed context. Which means that the structural breadth, as well as sonic invention of the performances, is all the clearer, and Guy’s advanced dynamics, taking him from fluttering mandolin-like delicacy to big rollicking bottom end to blurring chords, have a good foil in Lopez’s sensitive but strident percussion.

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