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Brazilian tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman (1961), who relocated to New York in 1989,
initially paid tribute to his roots (folk songs, composer Heitor Villa-Lobos)
employing the free-jazz devices first experimented by Albert Ayler.
His maturation as a (emotional and almost mystic) composer started with the drumless trio of Cama de Terra (july 1996),
featuring bassist William Parker and pianist Matthew Shipp,
and the trio of Sad Life (june 1996), featuring Parker and Rashid Ali on
drums.
Seeds, Visions and Counterpoint (september 1996), in another trio, achieved a synthesis of Perelman the improviser and Perelman the composer through the 20-minute Seeds, Visions and Counterpoint and the 26-minute Cantilena, his wildest musical excursions yet (but also the first fully-realized expression of his spirituality) .
Equally dissonant and intense was Sound Hiearchy (october 1996),
for a quartet with pianist Marilyn Crispell, bassist William Parker and drummer Gerry Hemingway.
Perelman's horizons further expanded via a collaboration with a
string quartet, the eight-movement The Alexander Suite (may 1998),
that was, if possible, even more jarring and chaotic than his trios and quartets, to the point that "free" sounded like an understatement, and via the
seven-movement suite The Seven Energies of the Universe (april 1998) for
a bass-less trio.
Density rather than dissonance stood out on the colossal expressionist Suite for Helen F (march 2002) for a double trio, basically a 107-minute total immersion in the inner nightmare of a devastated psyche.
Subsequent recordings included:
Slaves Of Job (october 1996) for a trio,
Revelation (october 1996) for a guitar-based quartet,
Black On White (march 2001) for a trio,
The Ventriloquist (june 2001),
Introspection (july 2005) for a violin-based quartet,
etc.
Soul Calling (recorded in 2006) had Rosie Hertlein on violin and voice,
Dominic Duval on bass, Newman Taylor Baker on drums.
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