Evolver
Bruno Raberg Tentet
OrbisMusic OM1323 (brunoraberg.com)
Music – especially the music called jazz – is always an evolutionary process. So having workshopped this music for a considerable period, its shepherd, Bruno Råberg rightfully, albeit whimsically, called its recorded iteration Evolver. Listening to it being played by the ace alliance he calls the Tentet you will be beckoned seductively by the dramatic twists and turns of each piece on this record.
Plunge in then as if you intended to discover the secrets of the source of the music, as if it were the water of life to its composer. The technical aspects of this music – arranged for ten performers who read exceedingly well – is one way to regard the music of Evolver with its six individual pieces and the final four-part work, The Echos Suite. However, penetrating the skin of the music to mine its secrets is more spiritual, shamanic and ephemeral.
In ephemeral terms the wellspring for Råberg’s compositions are perceived as shamanic affirmations translated into musical synchronicities. The melodies, harmonies and rhythms are signs he is doing precisely the right thing at the right time. This is how his labyrinthine melodies flow into harmonious tributaries and eloquent and complex rhythmic variations.
Thus, Råberg marshals his musicians through a masterful expansive musical odyssey; Greek myths (Peripeteia, Erbus and The Echos Suite), the Swedish countryside (Stilytje) and with Mode Natakapriya, through the diabolical complexities of the South Indian music tradition.
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