EYAL HAREUVENI’s SALT PEANUTS

Eyal Hareuveni, one of the active critics in the jazz/free jazz and impro scene, was so gracefully enough to write something about the magnificent ZWOSCH, ZWOSCH, ZWOSCH album on A New Wave Of Jazz. A gathering of 3 pivotal Portuguese musicians GUILHERME RODRIGUES, JOSÉ OLIVEIRA and CARLOS ‘ZINGARO’. Album is sill available here.

Zwosch, Zwosch & Zwosch captures a live performance of three innovative Portuguese improvisers – legendary, master violinist Carlos «Zingaro», Berlin-based cellist Guilherme Rodrigues, known for his ongoing free improvised meetings with his father, violist Ernesto Rodrigues (the head of Creative Sources Recordings) and percussionist (and visual artist) José Oliveira, known from the band of trumpeter Sei Miguel. This ad-hoc, intergenerational trio was recorded at Lisboa Incomum during Festival Dias de Música Electroacústica (DME) in July 2021. The 32-minute piece alternates between bold and restless free improvisation, abstract exploration of sound-oriented extended techniques and experimental contemporary chamber music. It is performed with a sense of urgency but keeps a cohesive interplay and form. As Guy Peters observes in his liner notes, the trio moves harmoniously, «like a flock of birds following a mysterious, shared course».” Salt Peanuts – Norway