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Dutch cellist Reijseger (Clusone 3, Gerry Hemingway) is a virtuoso of complex timing and homemade techniques: plucking above and below the bridge, in two rhythms at once; bowing a melody and sketching its chords while quietly plucking a bass line; harmonizing bowed harmonics with high colorless whistling; strumming not-quite-guitary chords.... He does all that and more on these excellently recorded solos, if you can call such balancing acts solos. (Colla parte means "with loose accompaniment.") On this program of focused improvisations and tunes by Abdullah Ibrahim and Misha Mengelberg, Reijseger also plays cello like
Dutch cellist Reijseger (Clusone 3, Gerry Hemingway) is a virtuoso of complex timing and homemade techniques: plucking above and below the bridge, in two rhythms at once; bowing a melody and sketching its chords while quietly plucking a bass line; harmonizing bowed harmonics with high colorless whistling; strumming not-quite-guitary chords.... He does all that and more on these excellently recorded solos, if you can call such balancing acts solos. (Colla parte means "with loose accompaniment.") On this program of focused improvisations and tunes by Abdullah Ibrahim and Misha Mengelberg, Reijseger also plays cello like a cello, letting melodies sing, and making quiet allusions to the instrument's past. He may shift from a rich, sonorous tone to knife-edge nasality on one pass of the bow, but he never defeats his own musicality. Listen and know why Yo-Yo Ma is a booster (and occasional collaborator). Definitive Reijseger, and a perfect gift for any unsuspecting cellist. --Kevin Whitehead
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Manufacturer: Winterland
Release date: 1 December 1997
EAN: 0025091001224 UPC: 025091001224
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