Live recording on October 20th 2018 at Werkhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin, Germany.
Recorded, mastered and graphic design by Tomo Jacobson.
REVIEWS
And perhaps I should add a remark on recent digital-only release Egin, pairing the two Rodrigueses & Masing in a quintet, this time with Tomo Jacobson on bass & Mia Dyberg on alto sax, neither of whom had appeared in this space previously: It's yet another appealing album, sometimes aggressive after starting on harmonics, and also apparently focusing on mental or emotional transition for the listener via a variety of evocations amid wave-like explorations of continuity — although it's rather short. I also feel compelled to note that it already appeared on Bandcamp the day after it was recorded, in Berlin, this month! Todd McComb's Jazz Thoughts
Tomo leads here a amazing quintet session with my beloved Portuguese string players: Ernesto and Guilherme Rodrigues, the father and the son. Tomo himself says: "There is no leader, there is only music", and, of course he is right, but I had to choose the entry for this album so I chose Tomo. The quintet includes also two Danes: Elo Masing on violin and Mia Dyberg on alto. "Egin " is a 30 minutes long excursion into the land of free... sonorism. Krzysztof Penderecki introduced this avantgarde direction in the late 1950s expressing the focus on the sound. "Egin" is a great example the same approach, but applied to the free improvised music. The disc contains one 30 minutes long track, that is a super controlled composition, but maybe to short to be upgrade to the ***** club.
It is quite complex and diffcult to classify. For me, because of the presence of four bowed string instrument, it does smell like a contemporary chamber music spirit. This is correct, but there are also connections to contemporary minimalism. Indeed it starts like a Kronos quartet's reading of a minimal music composition, but soon develops much more expressive moments and more varying and alternating moods and spirits. In all that the alto saxophone sounds of Mia Dyberg and Tomo's explorations of the possibilities of the double bass are indeed extremely important. Excellent record from the first to the last note!!! Maciej Lewenstein
Recording live in Berlin at Werkhalle Wiesenburg, the quartet of Portuguese father/son string players Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, Danish saxophonist Mia Dyberg on alto sax, and Polish double bassist Tomo Jacobson present a precisely controlled concert of subtly detailed free improvisation using impressive technique and momentum. Squidco
Autre album, autre ambiance avec Egin, sorti en 2019 et enregistré par un quintet formé pour l’occasion : la saxophoniste alto Mia Dyberg, le violoniste estonien Elo Masing, les Portugais Ernesto Rodrigues à l’alto et Guilherme Rodrigues au violoncelle et Tomo Jacobson.
Fruit de la collaboration entre deux labels qui cherchent : les Danois de Gotta Let It Out donc et les Portugais de Creative Sources, l’album comporte un seul long morceau (enregistré en concert à Berlin en octobre 2018), délicat et fragile où s’entremêlent les cordes vibrionnantes d’un quatuor qui ne dirait pas son nom et le saxophone minimaliste de Mia Dyberg. Pour l’anecdote, la jolie pochette de l’album est une peinture de la fille (deux ans à l’époque) de Tomo Jacobson. Julien Aunos (citizen jazz)
Ernesto Rodrigues (Lisbon, August 29th 1959) has been playing the violin / viola for 50 years and in that time has played
all genres of music ranging from contemporary music to free jazz and free improvisation, live and in the studio.
The relationship with his instruments is focused in sonic and
textural elements as well as the use of extended techniques....more
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