Nada

Carrier, Francois & Michel Lambert
Creative Sources Recordings
Jazz | Apr 2009

Reviews

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.

Recent airplay

Background
Memory SelectJul 31, 2009
Sparkles
Memory SelectJul 10, 2009
Apercu
Memory SelectJun 26, 2009
Clouds
Memory SelectJun 19, 2009
Falls
Memory SelectJun 05, 2009

Charting

2009-05-31 — 2009-08-02 Jazz
Week EndingAirplays
Aug 2 1
Jul 19 1
Jul 12 1
Jun 28 1
Jun 21 1
Jun 7 1

Track listing

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