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Ephemeral Locations
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Udo Schindler - clarinet, double bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, cornet
Paul Rogers - 7-string double bass
Recorded live by Udo Schindler, Projektraum Streitfeld, Munich, 7 December 2023
Mixed and mastered by Wolfgang Obrecht
Udo Schindler (GEMA)
Paul Rogers (PRS)
Production and photography by Udo Schindler
Design by Matthew Brandi
"Wrapping their spontaneous extemporization in one nearly 51½ minute track, both players on Ephemeral Locations initially emphasize expansion and dissidence as Schindler’s clarion bites move up the scale to reed sucks, vibrating peeps and near-altissimo screeches. Rogers’ seesaw responses slip from below the bridge rubs to a lower-pitched continuum for balance. His contrapuntal tough twangs then speed up to mandolin-like plucks and string stops as Schindler’s tenor saxophone projections harden into tongue-slapping growls, jagged split tones and solid smears. At the half-way point a more moderated interchange among reed kisses and arco string flutters soon reverses itself into wood-rending stretches from Rogers and reed blasts, followed almost immediately by plunger smears and horizontal breaths from Schindler’s cornet met nearly simultaneously by woody ripples and sul tasto rubs from Rogers instrument. With the parameters of the program now established, Schindler roams through his reed collection, adding echoing double bass clarinet snores at some points and distended bites and yelps from the clarinet and saxophone elsewhere. These moves from ascending to descending multiphonic intensity are reflected by Rogers whose broken chord sweeps and buzzes fragment tones in kind while – likely because of his additional strings – he almost simultaneously taps out a connective ostinato. The climax intertwines sul tasto string strums and reed rasps that slide from strained squeaks to clarion grumbles and the closest to mellow the duo gets in their playing." (Ken Waxman, Jazzword)
"Schindler employs diverse tools for the same quest, constructing a logical praxis inside the mix of perspicacity and fleeting impressions that defines the mind of a constraint-free musician. Whether through clarinets, saxophones or cornet, his sound remains unambiguous even in the most transcendental labyrinths, and intimately lyrical when the airspace permits. Rogers, who obviously operates in lower registers, is an authority on the resonant capacity of his bass, from which he draws — by bowing or plucking — unreal imagery, more organized stabilities and herds of overtones whose brightness varies according to the force of his touch. Moving across perturbed serenity and moderate agitation, Rogers provides the listeners with an expanded assortment of idiosyncrasies to ponder, and perhaps respond to (not to mention the commendable reciprocity with his partner). It would be silly to state that everything in this set flows as one. Indeed, sections exist where there's more of a parallelism of soliloquies than a true spiritual symmetry; in these circumstances, concentration must be pushed to the utmost in order to apply "evolved stereophony" to our perceptual systems, scrupulously considering what each of the two instrumentalists needs to express in a given circumstance. And yet the bulk of the dialogue is intense, still accurate in instances of vehement bursts, and thus rewarding both externally and subliminally. Schindler and Rogers' professionalism and executive acuity reflect decades of instrumental cognizance, and a lifetime of emancipation from the formalisms of habit-based sterile music." (Massimo Ricci, Squidco)
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