Anthony Braxton, Milford Graves & William Parker
Beyond Quantum

LA RECENSIONE

There are several objective elements that are usually used to write a review: biographical notes, perhaps spiced with some curious anecdotes; comparisons or similarities with other works and musicians; description of the type of sound; historical and social context; etc., etc.

But today I don't need any of that...

It's not easy. I've been trying for days now without great results, but the urge to share this gem with you is too strong. In all these years with music in my heart, I've rarely found someone with whom I could feel in perfect musical harmony. With Debaser, it's rarely been the opposite.

In "Beyond Quantum", released by Tzadik in 2008, the material is a collection of improvisations recorded in Bill Laswell's studio.

"Beyond Quantum" is a continuous, wonderful, and surprising flow of music. But it is not Braxton's music accompanied by bass and percussion. It is Anthony Braxton, William Parker, and Milford Graves, in a profound and perfect symbiosis, resulting in a hypnotic and stimulating flow, of transcendental nature that condenses through the instruments to become perceptible.

If it were a language, it would be universal, easy to listen to, without meanings, free from interpretations, a primitive communication or perhaps posthumous to humanity.

If they were images, they would be surreal, images of mother nature and her flowing; warm winds of colored snow, rivers of unknown objects that change shape, dances and bird songs in a ritual without purpose, swarms of bees without a queen chasing their own identity.

Something foreign to our senses that affects neither the heart nor the mind; it goes straight to the soul.

Three shamans vibrating to the rhythm of the universe in a sacred music without God.