De Beren Gieren & Susana Santos Silva - The Detour Fish (Live in Ljubljana) (2014)

Clean Feed Records: CF317CD
http://www.cleanfeed-records...tour-fish-live-in-ljubljana/



* Fulco Ottervanger: piano
* Susana Santos Silva: trumpet, flugelhorn
* Lieven Van Pée: bass
* Simon Segers: drums

http://www.deberengieren.be/
http://www.deberengieren.bandcamp.com/

http://www.allmusic.com/arti...lco-ottervanger-mn0002962330
http://www.susanasantossilva.com/
http://www.allmusic.com/arti...en-van-p%C3%A9e-mn0003349449
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/simon-segers-mn0002733857

Recorded live at Ljubljana Jazz Festival on July 4th, 2014 by Luís Delgado.
http://www.ljubljanajazz.si/...-na-jazz-festivalu-ljubljana
http://www.ljubljanajazz.si/...e-at-ljubljana-jazz-festival


Reviews

By Stef
http://www.freejazzblog.org/...s-silva-de-beren-gieren.html

Yes, sometimes it takes time before good albums get reviewed. Some really good
albums even get never reviewed at all!

Take this one for example, a young Belgian piano trio, called "De Beren Gieren"
(Dutch for "The Bears Howl") with Fulco Ottervanger on piano, Lieven Van Pée on
bass, and Simon Segers on drums, whose music is a fresh re-invention of the
line-up,offering playful and light-hearted compositions with often minimal
themes and quite intense improvisations.

For this album, they found a wonderful addition in Portuguese trumpeter Susana
Santos Silva, capturing a performance at the Ljubljana Jazz Festival in
2014. Why is there a good match? Because they have a great gift of simplifying
themes to their almost abstract essence, in combination with a great sense of
pulse and intense group improvisations, while not running away from some
structural complexities. The music's abstract and often sketchy quality makes
it hard to describe, but it flows in a beautiful, almost organic way, often
with a sense of wonder and surprise.

Even on "Weirs", the most avant-garde piece, led by Santos Silva's warm trumpet
playing, the interaction works perfectly : the trio respects her introductory
low growls, then gradually enters the scene with minimal arpeggiated sounds,
and then follows the trumpet through agitated and dark tension. And the
absolute beauty is that they do not overdo it. All four remain in full control
and just give sufficient effort to create the sound, and nothing more.

Even if recorded in front of an audience, it appears to be absent, but that
should not spoil the fun, because this band gives us a fascinating and unique
musical vision, that's kept throughout the album with great coherence, and with
lots of variation in the different pieces.

Light-hearted, adventurous, welcoming and beautiful.

De Beren Gieren & Susana Santos Silva - The Detour Fish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IrLxId0QZo

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By Glenn Astarita
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/...review-by-glenn-astarita.php

By Henning Bolte (de)
http://www.writteninmusic.co...tour-fish-live-in-ljubljana/

By Guy Peters (nl)
http://www.cobra.be/cm/cobra/muziek/1.2171143

By Jan Granlie (no)
http://salt-peanuts.eu/recor...-gieren-susana-santos-silva/

By Vincenzo Roggero (it)
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/...view-by-vincenzo-roggero.php

By Sara Quaresma Capitão (pt)
http://mutante.pt/2014/11/novos-albuns-ii-clean-feed/