Search - John Wieczorek, Robert Jürjendal David Rothenberg :: Soo-Roo

the new trio CD blending clarinets, Indian percussion, Estonian guitar, electronic rhythms, and bird song. The marsh warbler (or Soo-roolind in Estonian) does something no other bird is known to do. On its winter travels, it learns the songs of African birds and takes them back to its summer breeding grounds in Northern Europe and sings them one after another, with relentless complexity, for all to hear. These songs are the basis for the rhythms in our final piece. In the same way, we hope our pancultural improvisatory traveling grooves, from Estonia to America, from West to East, from acoustic to electronic, may celebrate the full world of sound one trio can produce, in various meetings of twos and threes. Driving tabla and udu rhythms mix with atmospheric guitar and swirling clarinet through subtle digital effects. The sounds of birds flit in and out, giving a yearning exuberance to the music. It is calm yet concentrated, relaxing but detailed. suggested airplay: track 2, Climate of Sound: a live improvised duet between Wieczorek and Rothenberg, evolving out of brief bird song into a surging meeting between bass clarinet and udu. Inspired by John Surman and Jack DeJohnette. track 10, Four Worlds: tabla and bass clarinet, with guitar synthesizer above, reminiscent of Don Cherry?s duets with Latif Khan track 12, Soo-Roo: perhaps the most emblematic piece, a guitar ostinato driven by marsh warbler bird percussion, trancelike but uplifting. This one?s like nothing else. file under: world fusion, contemporary jazz, new improvised music