Fe by DUOT

The Barcelona-based Duot – sax player Albert Cirera and drummer Ramon Prats, has an important mission: demolishing the partisan divide separating indoctrinated jazz musicians from self-taught avant-gardists. Obviously, Duot commits itself to work opposite the norm, dogma or orthodoxy, and seek the unpredictable, free and spontaneous demeanor.

The six «Cúpula» pieces of «Fe» radiate faithfully Duot raison d’etre: «unconscious search of a sound that we don’t know; a moment to remember; a state to reach». But the dome with its acoustic qualities, as well as the cover with a picture of Virgin Mary, suggest also an evocative, liberating sonic ritual. Duot begins this ritual with a contemplative but quite thorny drone, exploring the acoustic, timbral possibilities within the dome’s space and patiently gaining more power and volition, leading to the spiritual-ecstatic, Ayler-ian gospel-ish cries of the second piece. Duot experience with noisy sounds and ephemeral architectures on the third piece, employing an array of extended techniques. The fourth piece examines the reverberating qualities of the dome as Duot interplay spirals fast upwards. The fifth one offers a playful dialog comprised that enjoys the rich vocabularies of Cirera and Prats. Fe is concluded with a quiet and compassionate, hymn-like ceremonial piece.

Eyal Hareuveni
(Salt Peanuts)

Duot are Albert Cirera on saxos and Ramon Prats on drums and nowadays are one of the main groups of free jazz and improvised music of the Iberian Peninsula.

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