- finnegans wake: the bird and the sky above
(2010, cd, switzerland, fazzul music fm 0828)
In an interview from last December by the Jazznet Denmark website, two other reasons for the band's name are added:
http://jazz-net.blogspot.com/2009/12/finnegans-wake.html
"FW is the name of the 'magnus opus' of James Joyce and we chose the name to honour this great XXth century novel. It is also the name of an old irish song and also the subject of a seminar of the french psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. All three meanings mattered!"
For "The Bird and the Sky Above", the brand-new Finnegans Wake album, Alexandre Johnson (flute, G-flute), Henry Krutzen (tenor sax, percussion and piano), Marcilio Onofre (piano) and Markus Stauss (bass sax) were joined by guests Dudú Campos and Sami Tarik (percussion), Darlan Marley (drums) and Antônio de Pádua (trumpet, slide trumpet). The result is a very remarkable album. This is improvised jazz in the broadest meaning of the word. The six pieces on this disc share the search for dialogue, the search for melody and interaction.
The participating musicians give each other a lot of room, a lot of space, in the various pieces. it makes the sound more "contemporary classcial" than "free jazz". On the other hand, the use of the piano, the percussion and the bass saxophone give the the whole an ethnic touch.
Fascinating.
http://www.fazzulmusic.ch/english/welcome.php
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