For Oumuama, by The Bertch Quartet

For Oumuama

by The Bertch Quartet

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1.	Another Kind 04:23
2.	For Oumuama 07:49
3.	Not Yet 03:11
4.	The Possibility 02:49	buy track
5.	Chatroom with Bottle 02:50
6.	Glossolalia's Red Tongue 04:53
7.	Him and Her - Hin und Her 02:15
8.	The Last Bees 05:44
9.	Bertch 02:21
10.	Noise in the Air 04:03
11.	The Past is Present 04:25

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Recorded 2017/18 in Berlin.
Graphic design by Carlos Santos.

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Gitarist Henk Zwerver, bassist Raoul van der Weide en slagwerker George Hadow spelen een belangrijke rol in de Amsterdamse vrije improscene. In The Bertch Quartet gaan ze de samenwerking aan met de Berlijnse saxofoniste/klarinettiste Edith Steyer. “For Oumuama” is het debuut, dat nu op het Portugese label Creative Sources verschijnt. Zoals te verwachten bevat het album fijnzinnige, pointillistische vrije improvisaties, die hoestekstschrijver Theo Jorgensmann ‘klankschilderijen’ noemt. Maar er is meer. Zo zijn van der Weide en Hadow ook meesters in een onnadrukkelijk soort swing, waar mee ze het Mulligan Baker Project van saxofonist Janwillem van der Ham ook aansturen. Hier zetten ze die in voor track ’s die aan de trio ’s van Jimmy Giuffre doen denken (’Not yet’), of zelfs een abstract slepende blues (’The past is present’, het slotstuk). Steyer duetteert ook met elk van de mannen, en daar spat de subtiliteit vanaf. Het spaarzame gitaarwerk van Zwerver in ’The possibility’, de melodieuze drums van Hadow in ‘Him and her - hin und her’ en de hartslag van de bas van van der Weide in ‘Bertch’ zorgen met de zwoele klarinet en de volle alt van de Duitse voor een aantal pareltjes. Herman te Loo (Jazzflits)

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released August 23, 2022

Edith Steyer - alto saxophone, clarinet
Henk Zwerver - guitar
Raoul van der Weide - double bass, crackle box
George Hadow - percussion

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Creative Sources Recordings Lisbon, Portugal

Creative Sources releases a plethora of improv/jazz and experimental electronic music.
Founded in 2000.

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