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Dizzy Fingers
With
a simply inexhaustible melodic imagination and joy of experiment,
the ground is cut from under the feet of all attempts to
force music into hide bound categories. If we're talking
about World Music here, then it's about integrating music
elements and ways of playing from different cultural circles
at the highest possible artistic level.
Surprising stylistic metamorphoses make life difficult for
any academic attempts to approach the music. The Englishman
Geoff Warren puts his finger on it when he describes
the "art of the duo", that he celebrates here
with Tartar, Enver Izmailov: "We make music
that just comes out of our physical, psycho-spiritual and
intellectual personalities. This duo finds a somnambulous
balance of these forces and thus forms a unique organization
of tonal possibilities"
Both Enver Izmailov and Geoff Warren are masterly craftsmen,
instrumentalists. The one taps on the guitar strings with
all ten fingers and creates the impression of an entire
orchestra playing, whilst the other, on flute and soprano
saxophone, provides the suppleness of almost never-ending
expressive power. On the appointed basis of a seven-eight
or eleven-eight time, stories of the occident and of the
orient are unravelled in mulitfacetted communicative improvisation;
so do new forms of musical expression come into existence.
If you listen, you will glide away into worlds beyond and
over the moon - where not only your feet
shall be dancing!
Geoff
Warren Homepage
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