Rise: Music In Times Of Uncertainty
Navona, 2022
9/10
Listen to Rise: Music In Times Of Uncertainty
David Colson has much experience as a performer, conductor, and composer, and here be offers us very creative chamber sounds that covers a sizable area of emotional content.
“How We Change” starts the listen with the Western Brass Quintet, i.e. Scott Thornburg (trumpet), Robert White (trumpet), Lin Foulk Baird (horn), Daniel Mattson (trombone), and Chance S. Trottman-Huiet (tuba) bringing both restraint and adventurousness to the exciting chamber climate, and “The Wind Is Rising, the Earth lets itself be inhaled” follows with Benjamin Kamins on bassoon and Matthew Strauss’ percussion in the mysterious and cinematic 14 minutes.
The final two tracks unfold across many chapters, where “Rise” recruits the Clocks in Motion Percussion, which is John Corkill, Kyle Flens, Christopher G. Jones and Sean Kleve handling percussio and Clare Longendyke on piano for the delicate, exploratory and sometimes even sci-fi tinted album highlight.
“Dionysian Mysteries” exits the listen, and showcases Christopher Creviston (soprano saxophone), Joseph Lulloff (alto saxophone), David Stambler (tenor saxophone), and Henning Schroeder (baritone saxophone), aka the Capitol Quartet, for a very unpredictable and fascinating brass journey.
An effort where each track shines in its own light, we’re treated to large ensembles, much focus on percussion and plenty of tempo manipulation populating this very well done record.
Travels well with: Jeffrey Derus- From Wilderness; Peter Greve- Oerbos & Other Works Vol. II