Anja Lechner, Dino Saluzzi - Ojos Negros
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Free Music Review: Well designed music, but doesn't move me.
Hit: 3 Stars
This music is beautiful and well-constructed and designed, but it hasn't spoken to my soul yet. Maybe it will.Free Music Review: this music lives
Hit: 5 Stars
an intense listen. Great communication and interaction . Music as a form of human language has rarely been demonstrated so exquisitely . High Art . While still being an easy but attentive listeningFree Music Review: Soporific Yet Satisfying
Hit: 4 Stars
The liner notes in the handsome booklet that accompanies Ojos Negros start with a very telling anecdote involving Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, and it is obvious that the author of the notes intended the putative Borges quote to apply to the music of Dino Saluzzi as well. That is, if you don't understand the work, then its not for you.
That has been the problem for me since I was introduced to the music of Saluzzi through his work with Al DiMeola's world music project. He was so good there, I sought out his own projects. But as hard as I tried, I just didn't connect with any of them until now.
If you are looking for the music of Dino Saluzzi, then its likely that you already know what the bandoneon is all about. There surely is not another instrument with the power to express melancholy, longing and angst as the bandoneon and that is what makes perfect for tango. But in the last half-century, adventurous musicians, Saluzzi among them, have explored the possibilities of the bandoneon beyond the world of tango.
The foundation of Ojos Negros lies in tango. The title of the CD itself is also the name of a tango dating from the time of the Guardia Vieja of the early 20th century, and it is indeed the only composition covered here that is not Saluzzi's. If you know the piece, you will surely recognize it. But while Saluzzi's music is anchored in tango, his collaboration here with German cellist Anja Lechner extends his musical reach deep into the worlds of chamber music and avant-garde jazz and the result is often spellbinding.
I have listened to Ojos Negros at least a dozen times since I bought it. And though I did not like it instantly, its musical secrets gradually revealed themselves to me after repeated listens. This is a work that surely demands that you be all ears lest the key to its mysteries escape you. It is somber, it is stately, and it is often soporific, yet it is ultimately satisfying.
A couple of other Saluzzi CDs I own haven't really "worked" for me. Ojos Negros does. If you have the patience and the time to listen without distractions, you may find that it works for you as well.
Free Music Review: Elegant and free-flowing.
Hit: 4 Stars
Argentine Dino Saluzzi, a master of an accordion-like instrument called the bandoneon, plays moody, meandering music derived from the tango.
He is a virtuoso and a symbol of the music which he plays.
A Master of his instrument, and of his idiom, a defiantly acoustic, 21st-century development of the angst-ridden New Tango.
He has collaborated with jazz masters such as John Surman, and with classical ensembles such as the Rosamunde Quartett. He was a star of last year's Norwegan Nattjazz festival where he was featured in a concerto-like setting with the Bergen Big Band.
"Ojos Negros" features eight duets performed with German cellist Anja Lechner (of the Rosamunde Quartett), all but one composed by Saluzzi. Yet mastery does not guarantee a world-beating album.
The duo's interpretations are elegant and free-flowing, but there's a lack of compositional bite that is not always compensated for by sheer performance.
There are times, listening to these intense and beautifully recorded duets, when the predominant impression is that of eavesdropping on a well-mannered private conversation.
Which is why many people will adore "Ojos Negros".
Free Music Review: Intriguing combination
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a fabulous album, combining a couple of excellent musicians performing an interesting tango music with an unusual colour of sound, Piazolla must be thrilled!
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