O Monstro (Creative Sources 2014), by GONÇALO ALMEIDA // JOHN DIKEMAN // GEORGE HADOW {Live at Zaal 100}

O Monstro (Creative Sources 2014)

by GONÇALO ALMEIDA // JOHN DIKEMAN // GEORGE HADOW {Live at Zaal 100}

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	1.	Pentagon 08:46
	2.	Eastern Tides 09:27
	3.	Vrieke! 07:09
	4.	O Monstro 10:30

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released September 1, 2014

GONÇALO ALMEIDA - Doublebass
JOHN DIKEMAN - Tenor Saxophone
GEORGE HADOW - Drums

1. Pentagon
2. Eastern tides
3. Vrieke!
4. O Monstro

All music by Almeida/Dikeman/Hadow
Recorded live, 4th March 2014 at Zaal 100,
Amsterdam by Nikos Kandarakis
Mixed by Gonçalo Almeida
Mastered by Nikos Kandarakis
Art work "O Monstro" by Gonçalo Almeida

"Things are of a different nature with this trio consisting of Gonçalo Almeida on bass, John Dikeman on sax and George Hadow on drums, three musicians who happen to be based in the Netherlands. As the title suggests, this is a monster of a trio, ferocious, raw, wild, fierce and sufficiently clever and creative to keep the interest going, including the wonderful shift at the end of the first track.

The second piece starts with a long bowed bass intro, and when the two youngsters join, the energy picks up again for some fantastic interplay, one in which all three musicians play an equal role.

And then it's hard to describe why this is good, why this is so much better than the average, because you have to hear it. The heat that drives these musicians, the phenomenal skills that avoid automatisms, the discipline to listen to each other, the inventiveness in the moment, the focus to stay in the same tune while feeling as free as a bird, a monster of a bird in this case, and if you're a fan of free jazz, you shouldn't miss this one." Stef (FreeJazz)

"O Monstro" (Portuguese for "the Monster"), the musical freak by Goncalo Almeida (double bass), John Dikeman (tenor saxophone) and George Hadow (drums), is maybe the closest release to typical aesthetics of free-jazz sessions from the ones received by Creative Sources. Recorded on live stage at Zeal 100 in Amsterdam on 4th March 2014, this session is made up of four tracks, where they free a really wild energy, which got tempered by amazingly trapping juggling on instruments that express a remarkable talent by each musician. I really enjoyed the drumming on "Vrieke!" by Hadow, who seems to warp hard bop techniques into something that sounds wisely raw, the gipsy nuances of "Eastern tides" and the specular explosions and the popping crescendo on incandescent instruments you're going to listen on the initial "Pentagon" and the final title-track "O Monstro". The titles and its references as well as their apopleptic performances on instruments, which seem to give voice and shape to uncontrollable bouts of rage, seem to mirror the political debate that is flaming many (more or less) intellectual avantgarde circles in Europe. Vito Camarretta (Chain DLK)

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Gonçalo Almeida Rotterdam, Netherlands

Bassist and composer Gonçalo Almeida (Lisbon, 1978) lives in Rotterdam, Netherlands.He has been making a mark as one of Netherlands’s most interesting new generation bass players. His projects involve the forerunners of the Dutch and Portuguese jazz scenes, bridging modern jazz, free jazz, jazzcore and free improvisation. ... more

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