Joel Futterman - Warp & Weft - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Joel Futterman, Chad Fowler and Steve Hirsh met up on the shore of Chesapeake Bay in January 2022. Each had recorded as a duo with the other, and they had talked for months about playing together. When they finally converged, the result was magical. Ebb & Flow is the result - a collection of music that arose in that moment between those people. Nothing pre-planned, noting discussed - just meet and hit and let the music come through.Part OnePart Two

Ensemble Marsyas' recording of Johann Fasch's finest chamber music demonstrates why the man and his music were so appreciated in his own lifetime. Founding member Peter Whelan and Inchthe queen of the recorderInch (BBC Radio 3) Pamela Thorby are the soloists challenged with meeting the virtuoso demands of this engaging music. The four-movement Quartet in B flat major for recorder, oboe, violin and continuo is among one of Fasch's most popular works; full of catchy tunes and contrapuntal ingenuity in equal measure, virtuosity is demanded from all concerned. The Concerto in F major for recorder and strings was only recently attributed to Fasch. It is full of characteristic Fasch-isms and of the same dramatic quasi-recitative style as his Bassoon Concerto. Upon Fasch Quartets and Concertos was named a Chamber Choice by BBC Music Magazine and awarded the maximum five stars for both Performance and Recording.

Legendary free improviser Joel Futterman had never met saxophonist Chad Fowler when they decided to create a record of improvised duos. In fact, they still had never met when they finished the recordings. This collection of spontaneously improvised music sounds like the carefully pre-composed work of a collaborative duo with years of experience playing as a unit. Listen closely and you still won't be able to hear that these recordings were made by two musicians at different times and places; One of the pair recording a solo track and sending to the other, in an (almost consistently) oscillating pattern over the course of a few days during the COVID19 pandemic.001. Part One 002. Part Two 003. Part Three 004. Part Four 005. Part Five 006. Part Six 007. Part Seven 008. Part Eight 009. Part Nine