1. I - 30'40''
Elo Masing - Violin
Ernesto Rodrigues - Viola
Dietrich Petzold - Violin, Viola
Guilherme Rodrigues - Cello
Matthias Bauer - Double Bass
Klaus Kürvers - Double Bass
Recorded October 2018, Berlin
Reviews
Finally (at least for now), perhaps the most sonically aggressive of the recent classical strings albums is Hexagon, featuring six bowed string players (as the title suggests, but in a curious configuration with a single cello): Recorded just this past October (in fact, the very same day as Kühlspot Social Club, if the info is to be believed), and barely more than half an hour in length, Petzold returns, but Hexagon was actually recorded by bassist Klaus Kürvers (another frequent Rodrigues collaborator), who is joined by Bauer again on bass, violinist Elo Masing (from e.g. Crane Cries) & the two Rodrigueses. The opening string bending interaction makes for an intriguing start, moving into a shearing feel that eventually yields to more of a classical mood, then into some "crunchy" contrapuntal sounds; the second half (of the single track) focuses more on continuity, including around a generalized hocket, such that motives pass in waves between the musicians... who nonetheless continue to produce richly independent detail via technical variety. (The resulting accumulation of power might even be said to evoke Bartok or late Beethoven....) As I've remarked about some other albums (e.g. recently regarding Ivo Perelman), many of these projects do seem more like explorations than finished products, but there is still much to hear — at least for those of us interested in these kinds of textures & (affective) outcomes. Todd McComb's Jazz Thoughts
Finally (at least for now), perhaps the most sonically aggressive of the recent classical strings albums is Hexagon, featuring six bowed string players (as the title suggests, but in a curious configuration with a single cello): Recorded just this past October (in fact, the very same day as Kühlspot Social Club, if the info is to be believed), and barely more than half an hour in length, Petzold returns, but Hexagon was actually recorded by bassist Klaus Kürvers (another frequent Rodrigues collaborator), who is joined by Bauer again on bass, violinist Elo Masing (from e.g. Crane Cries) & the two Rodrigueses. The opening string bending interaction makes for an intriguing start, moving into a shearing feel that eventually yields to more of a classical mood, then into some "crunchy" contrapuntal sounds; the second half (of the single track) focuses more on continuity, including around a generalized hocket, such that motives pass in waves between the musicians... who nonetheless continue to produce richly independent detail via technical variety. (The resulting accumulation of power might even be said to evoke Bartok or late Beethoven....) As I've remarked about some other albums (e.g. recently regarding Ivo Perelman), many of these projects do seem more like explorations than finished products, but there is still much to hear — at least for those of us interested in these kinds of textures & (affective) outcomes. Todd McComb's Jazz Thoughts
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