CD Title …more
steps
Jorge Cabadas
(guitar)
Track details:
1. Diving (part
1) - 2:18
2. Experiment #3
- 2:02
3. Diving (part
2) - 7:31
4. More steps -
4:48
5.
Floatin´again! - 1:51
6. She explores
the void - 5:48
7. Obstinato -
3:34
8. AEE (Advanced
Electronic Experience) - 7:47
9. Walking
nowhere - 6:00
Composer Jorge
Cabadas
Date and place
of recording.
Recorded at the Historical
Archive of Jaén (Spain) May 25 & 26, 2015
Recorded by Bernardo Jurado
& Antonio Félix Vico
Mastered by Antonio Félix
Vico
Never giving in to trends, UK based Slam Records continues to
fascinate with three recent releases.
Jorge Cabadas uses his guitar in a variety of sounds and
moods, creating a mix of picking the strings with a myriad of electronic
effects. Moody pickings mix with sonic
wallpaper as on "Experiment #3" and the space-is-the-place feel of "She
Explores the World." A mix of Brian Eno ambience and contemplative pickings
dominate throughout, with gadgets galore on "AEE" and Kraftwerk for 6 strings
coming across on "Diving (Part 2)." Eno with an axe?
The trio of Szilard Mezei/viola-kaval, Svetlana Novakovic/fl
and Maja Dadovanlija/g bring together three long pieces of 32’, 27’ and an am
"hit" of just 10" on this album. Don’t get scared; the cacophonies are kept to
a minimum the music actually holds together well. You get melancholy strings
that weave together and drift apart with guitar and flute on "Wild Geese I-II"
as classical guitar dances with percussive strings to moods of modern
classicism. Some folksy brooding is featured on "White Flower" as the woodwinds
create a dark panorama. Istvan Csik brigns drums and percussion to "Shadow
Show" which adds to the mystical sounds of flute and viola, while rich textures
hover like an evening fog. Rewarding for the patient.
Istvan Grencso plays tenor sax, soprano sax, bass clarinet
and pipe with his core team of Mate Pozsar/p, Robert Benko/b and Szilveszter
Miklos/dr. Guest woodwinds and violas pop in and out of the songs in cameos like actors in a
kabuki during this ambitious two disc release. The first disc mixes staccato
pulses with festive dances and free formed bass solos on "Az Eskuvo" while sax
and piano brood with bass on "supplication." Pensive moments of "Ajanlas
Asszonyainknak" segue into a dramatic cataclysm of reeds that swirl around
intensely on "Dance of Reanimation" while a jazzy trio closes things out on
"Minstrelsy." Mixes of frenzied incoherence spice up undulations of
contemplation and wonderment, crossing and erasing lines between composition
and freedom.
George W. Harris
http://www.jazzweekly.com/2016/03/slam-into-springjorge-cabadas-more-steps-szilard-mezei-trio-flute-strings-grencsco-open-collective-derengesdawn/
La Slam Productions dedica
una parte della propria produzione all’avanguardia, ecco allora incisioni fuori
dal comune, come questa del
chitarrista Jorge Cabadas effettuata in Spagna nel 2015. È un album eseguito in
solo alla chitatta elettrica, alla ricerca di suoni nuovi mentre si compone
istantaneamente, un viaggio nel microcosmo culturare dell’autore, una ricerca
nei suoi ricordi sonori fra avanguardie americane ed europee, i suoni
affascinanti di AMM, ad esempio, o quelli più aggressivi di Lester Bowie oppure
Ornette Coleman. L’ascolto rivela paesaggi sonori inusuali, collane di note che
svelano una loro magia personale e che non hanno bisogno di alcun altro
accompagnamento per esprimersi. È certo un proposta radicale, come quella di
AMM, a cui si può assimilare, che richiede una certa attenzione all’ascolto. Le
note viaggiano per l’aria e sembrano costruire qualcosa che va al di là
dell’armonia o della melodia comunemente intesi. E tuttavia quello che Cabadas
offre ha un suo fascino, da un brano all’ altro si segue il suo approccio alla
composizione estemporanea e quelle note riverberate che danno un aspetto fuori
dal comune al tutto. È un disco fuori dall’usuale, che però affascinerà i
chitarristi per l’uso eterodosso che è possibile fare dello strumento,
Vittorio Lo Conte
http://www.musiczoom.it/?p=25257#.Vs2jgpyLTct
February 2016
TRANSLATION
The Slam Productions devotes
a portion of its production to the avant-garde , this is when incisions out of
the ordinary, such as this guitarist Jorge Cabadas carried out in Spain in 2015.
It is an album made in only the electric chitatta, looking for new sounds while
composing instantly, a journey into the microcosm author culturare, a search in
his sound memories between American and European avant-garde, the fascinating
sounds of AMM, for example, or the most aggressive of Lester Bowie or Ornette
Coleman. Listening reveals unusual soundscapes, notes necklaces that reveal
their personal magic and you do not need any other accompaniment to express
themselves. It is hardly a radical proposal, like that of AMM, which can
assimilate, that requires some attention to listening. The notes are traveling
through the air and seem to build something that goes beyond the harmony or
melody commonly understood. And yet what they Cabadas offers has its own charm,
from a song to 'else follows his approach to impromptu composition and those
notes reverberated giving an appearance out of the ordinary at all. It is an
out from the usual hard, but fascinate the guitarists to use unorthodox that
you can make the instrument.
