MELANOIA & QUATUOR IXI - RED (MUSIC BY LUZIA VON WYL)

• Melanoia & Quatuor iXi: Red (Music By Luzia Von Wyl)
      (2016, cd, Hungary, budapest music center records)

Dejan Terzic's Melanoia ensemble teamed up with French string ensemble Quatuor iXi to record pieces by Luzia Von Wyl (plus two pieces by Dejan Terzic).

The result is fascinating to say the least.
Highly recommended !!

Save the Elephants. Down with ivory towers. Dejan Terzic’s Quartet Melanoia has always been a fount of empathy become sound. Four musicians – saxophonist Hayden Chisholm, pianist Achim Kaufmann, guitarist Ronny Graupe and drummer Dejan Terzic – who unfold jazz from the other side. The premise is mutual listening, catching each other, and responding to each other. Against this background solos never sound like solos, but are always part of a spontaneous or calculated composition. The borders of the moment open up, with those of other moments in a chain of unavoidable impulses toward a living process. Making music without vanity: four individual voices which in this context are derived from the togetherness of Us.