Carrier, Francois & Michel Lambert / Nada
Album: Nada   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Carrier, Francois & Michel Lambert   Added:Apr 2009
Label:Creative Sources Recordings  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2009-05-31 Pull Date: 2009-08-02 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Aug 2 Jul 19 Jul 12 Jun 28 Jun 21 Jun 7
Airplays: 1 1 1 1 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Jul 31, 2009: Memory Select
Background
4. Jun 19, 2009: Memory Select
Clouds
2. Jul 10, 2009: Memory Select
Sparkles
5. Jun 05, 2009: Memory Select
Falls
3. Jun 26, 2009: Memory Select
Apercu

Album Review
Wedge
Reviewed 2009-05-28
Sax/drum duets, improvised free jazz in short doses. (Only a few tracks exceed 4 minutes.) Mostly upbeat, with a casual air. Carrier keeps to an airy sound with his sax, sticking to musical forms rather than all-out abstraction. Lambert adds some solid, chattery drumming but also insers the occasional whistle or noisemaker for a different sound.

Pretty much any track makes a nice little snack. A good followup to their "Kathmandu" live duo CD of a couple years ago.

More tuneful -- 1,2, 5, 9, 11, 13, 18
More abstract -- 4, 10, 17, 20

1- Pleasant
2- Upbeat
3- Wood flute, a zenlike mid/fast
4- Clattery, clangy statement.
5- Upbeat. Clackety percussion work.
6- Cool rolling drums, like a waterfall. Sprinkles of sax that become a gnarled flow later. Nice intensity here, a less laid-back track.
7- Wood flute and ocarina? Tweety; goofing around.
8- Thoughtfully tuneful
9- Shuffly beat, calmly edge-walking sax
10- Fast drum clatter, warbly sax
11- Smoothly tuneful sax
12- A chipper stroll, turns into an upbeat winding journey (6:51)
13- Perky and upbeat,
14- Chipper; develops patiently
15- Sounds of water + drum clutter. (0:47)
16- Touches of blues. A nice jam. (6:41)
17- Short & slashing
18- Pleasant after cluttery start
19- Briskly jazzy
20- A touch more sour. Mid/fast.

Track Listing
1. Between Colors   11. Unknown
2. Background   12. Sparkles
3. Apercu   13. Clouds
4. Growing   14. Transformation
5. Way Out   15. Drops
6. Falls   16. Blanks
7. Nada   17. Source
8. Multiverses   18. Tabula Rasa
9. Earth Beat   19. Circles On The Water
10. Emergence   20. Just Another