NEW CD "TRAVEL OF FULICA ATRA" RELEASED 26.10.07!!!
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Esa Pietilä Trio from Helsinki Finland, navigates and explores new and fresh improvisational fields of scandinavian freejazz expression with every angle of communication, ranging from straightforward energetic free playing to colours, ambient sceneries and soundscapes, by using also every possible duo combinations within the group members. They have lately been performing with succes in almost every scandiavian and european countries. All members of the group are internationally acclaimed artists, and have been performing with names like Tomas Stanko, Anders Jormin, Odean Pope, Ron McClure, Mike Nock, Arve Henriksen, Eric Vloiemans, Anders Jormin, Jon Christensen, Lars Danielson, Tim Hagans, Trygve Seim, Edward Vesala, Mathias Eick, Heiri Kaenzig, Hilmar Jensson, Anders Bergcrantz, Filip Augustson, Magnus Broo... in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Italy, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Spain, England, Usa, Australia, Iceland, New Zeeland, Brazil, Cuba...----------------------------
Reviews:...
Don Williamson, Jazzreview.com:
The group’s engaged absorption in the music, the members’ interest in the infinite potential of the sounds they can create, their openness for free improvisation and the elaboration upon the conventional roles of their instruments. ... Pietilä injects immediacy and surprise into his playing by going for unplanned gems that like-minded interaction can discover through spontaneous playing. His interests are as much about implication—the spaces between the dots he punches out—as about literal adherence to pre-written composition.Esa Pietilä is an always explorative saxophonist, accessible though with a personal perspective toward the music he plays...his music is a work of a jazz artist worth the search. .................................
Robert Spencer, Cadence, USA:
Esa Pietilä, the leader of the CD "Direct", has a tenor tone suitable for framing, partaking of the Coltrane and post-Coltrane stream but also icily ruminative a la Jan Garbarek, without dipping into any untoward ECMism. The rhythm section alone on this would prevent that. Pietilä manages to evoke this highly-charged Sixties atmosphere while never resorting to the tired bag of tricks that so few have been able to resist before him. ... he doesn't allow himself to fall into any of the more obvious traps. Also, throughout this disc he seems to decline to take the bait offered by Krokfors and Ounaskari in particular, although the choices he does make complement their goading and churning just fine without making this into an outright Aylerfest. And his tone is gorgeous.
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ALL ABOUT JAZZ, Matthew Wuethrich:
Like its predecessors, the Esa Pietilä Trio peels away jazz's conventions to reveal its basic sound elements, but its efforts on Direct are leaner and more refined. With a minimum of song structure but a maximum of group interaction, they deliver a visceral gut-punch with both urgency and subtlety. The group does not rigidly define each player's role, thereby freeing them to delve deeper into their instruments' potential. While much free jazz often climaxes in cataclysmic peaks, this trio prefers to let silence and resonance build. By putting texture and interaction over harmonic development and song structure, they highlight a larger goal: creating a unified group identity.
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