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| Reed and woodwind genius Gebhard Ullmann has moved outside of his own range on Tá Lam, and created a largely solo work for expressing himself not only as a composer, but as a soloist and improviser as well. Tá Lam is a single work in 13 sections. Different families of instruments are utilized, from piccolos to bass clarinets and the entire range of the saxophone family. The harmonic rigors of this work alone are staggering in their complexity and deftness of articulation. Ullmann has created a tightrope between the spheres of the heaven and earth that are tonality and non-tonality (there is nothing atonal here). His notions of melodic harmonizing between groups of instruments are extremely complex and demanding, but played with an ease of spirit, a comfort with the sonic architecture he has created. Hassler is not a collaborator on every piece, but he is essential to the places he does appear, creating a wider color palette of chords and interludes of density where space seems to predominate. There is a poetic chromaticism in place in the cracks and seams and a surreal, dreamlike quality in the openly expressionistic passages. This record walks the line between jazz and new music without caring which way it falls. Gebhard Ullmann has given us a work to ponder for decades to come and the finest moment of his career thus far. — Thom Jurek |
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ARTISTS
Dirk Engelhardt (soprano & tenor sax, clarinet); Hans Hassler (accordion); Thomas Klemm (tenor sax, wood flute); Jurgen Kupke (clarinet); Joachim Litty (atlo and bass clarinets, alto sax); Heiner Reinhardt (bass clarinet); Volker Schlott (soprano & alto sax, flute, wood flute); Gebhard Ullmann (soprano & tenor sax, bass flute, wood flute, bass clarinet, piccolo, flute, alto flute, alto sax) |
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