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enthymeme I 02:55
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apodeixis 08:10
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pistis I 04:41
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singularity 15:35
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dynamis 04:09
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antistrophos 04:15
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entekhnos 08:40
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pistis II 03:05
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enthymeme II 04:44
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Creative Sources recordings cs705

Singularity

Per Gärdin: alto and soprano saxophones
Vasco Trilla: timpani, gongs, clock chimes, metronomes, drum set

Recorded in Stockholm and Barcelona september 2020 - march 2021 by Per Gärdin/Vasco Trilla
Mixed and mastered by Per Gärdin
All compositions by Per Gärdin/Vasco Trilla
©2021 Gärdin/Trilla
Cover photo credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team
Production by Ernesto Rodrigues

"Friformmusik som gör att man spetsar öronen och gärna vill höra mer!"
Roger Bergner Jazz Orkesterjournalen

"Singularity, a recording by Swedish alto and soprano saxophonist Per Gärdin and Vasco Trilla, percussionist from Barcelona, represents a timbrally varied and often subtle take on the saxophone-percussion duet. Most of the titles of the album’s tracks derive from Greek terms descriptive of different rhetorical tactics; this seems appropriate, since the various techniques on display in the music themselves can be thought of as devices deployed within a well-thought out sonic rhetoric.

The album is structured as a long, cyclical arc that takes it from a quiet beginning through a slow buildup in intensity and back to a restrained denouement. Whether playing quietly or more assertively, Gärdin integrates extended techniques into his lines. For example, on Apodeixis, he explores overtones, key clicks and multiphonics; the somewhat harsher Singularity features whistles and overblowing. On Antistrophos and Pistis I and II he plays more conventionally, but with an expressionistic urgency. Trilla is equally creative with his palette of sounds, offering strummed chimes on Enthymeme I, washes of gongs and scraped membranes on Antistrophos, and sparsely tolling timpani on Enthymeme II. When he moves to drum kit, as he does on Pistis I and II, he plays with no less a sense of color than he does in less conventional settings."
avantmusicnews.com/2021/11/07/amn-reviews-per-gardin-vasco-trilla-singularity-creative-sources-cs705/?fbclid=IwAR0-bInyCj6boDQ0NLf02O11nFQ7zrQ4wCk0CqJ-yKB6T8PPXew4TkSMGTQ

"Most tracks are relatively gentle, but others, such as the third one become more dynamic, and even unexpectedly noisy. The great thing about the improvisations is that even if the overall tone is relatively accessible, the music itself is very exploratory, guiding us through unknown territory as on a long and mysterious space journey. Both artists perform with the same vision of how the music should sound, and they stick to it throughout. A nice achievement."
www.freejazzblog.org/2021/09/sax-drums-2.html?spref=fb&fbclid=IwAR2c0eZO_C0LjA3tZov1a1AAgg1smC1rqP9J7XsGbDlScb8l58pq9S7gCns

"...With Singularity, Gärdin and Trilla make an album in which their sound research can take many forms, while at the same time the duo ensures that the album as a whole radiates coherence. Two European improvisers find each other and in each other's company hardly seem to have to make concessions in order to achieve a satisfactory result. It is by no means predictable, it is often exciting. The musical beauty is in the research and the astute execution."
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released June 10, 2021

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Soprano and alto saxophones in mainly improvisational settings.

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