SIGNE EMMELUTH - Hi Hello I'm Signe
Relative Pitch Records LLC CD RPR1113
Signe Emmeluth: solo alto saxophone
Recorded live for Sonic Transmissions’ "Movement is Stasis" Festival, at Kafe Hœrverk, Oslo, Norway, August 6th 2020.
‘Movement is Stasis’ is a music festival based in Austin, Texas, USA at which performances from around the world are streamed on-line to global audiences.
Signe Emmeluth is a Danish saxophonist who studied at the former Trondheim (Norway) Conservatory of Music. She is now based in Oslo. Her music has developed into an intensifying voice of improvisation across the Nordic countries and she is a talented composer for example for Spacemusic Ensemble, which she also leads. The group examines the interdependence between arrangement and invention using both acoustic and electric instrumentation.
‘High Hello-’ is Emmeluth’s first, solo venture and she delivers it with an exhibition of self-assured authority, playing with a gifted ingenuity that elucidates her very 'raison d'être'. You might want to hear her album ‘Chimaera’ with the group Amoeba to get a broader idea of the extent of her ability and talent, whether playing hot free jazz, track after track, or this solo performance of a single piece. What she plays is unpredictable, every bit as much as Peter Brötzmann was, in concert: it will never be anything like what you might have projected and such is her power that her instrument develops a character of its own. Her technique is brilliant and although her sound may be, at times, wildly aggressive, it is rather like a gin that has been infused with the botanicals that give it charisma, elusiveness and refinement.
Her music and her performance seem to discharge a flash of improvisation that is both ground-breaking and instinctive, the album perhaps unexpectedly charming, delectable and exuberant, in every denier of its warp and weft. Signe Emmeluth’s talent is a highly progressive ability, way above any anticipation for such a so-far- short career. Her jazz is significant and should you be toying with the idea of taking in some free jazz for the first time, she will give you a clear introduction to what it may contain. She is a very singular talent.
Reviewed by Ken Cheetham
Relative Pitch Records LLC CD RPR1113
Signe Emmeluth: solo alto saxophone
Recorded live for Sonic Transmissions’ "Movement is Stasis" Festival, at Kafe Hœrverk, Oslo, Norway, August 6th 2020.
‘Movement is Stasis’ is a music festival based in Austin, Texas, USA at which performances from around the world are streamed on-line to global audiences.
Signe Emmeluth is a Danish saxophonist who studied at the former Trondheim (Norway) Conservatory of Music. She is now based in Oslo. Her music has developed into an intensifying voice of improvisation across the Nordic countries and she is a talented composer for example for Spacemusic Ensemble, which she also leads. The group examines the interdependence between arrangement and invention using both acoustic and electric instrumentation.
‘High Hello-’ is Emmeluth’s first, solo venture and she delivers it with an exhibition of self-assured authority, playing with a gifted ingenuity that elucidates her very 'raison d'être'. You might want to hear her album ‘Chimaera’ with the group Amoeba to get a broader idea of the extent of her ability and talent, whether playing hot free jazz, track after track, or this solo performance of a single piece. What she plays is unpredictable, every bit as much as Peter Brötzmann was, in concert: it will never be anything like what you might have projected and such is her power that her instrument develops a character of its own. Her technique is brilliant and although her sound may be, at times, wildly aggressive, it is rather like a gin that has been infused with the botanicals that give it charisma, elusiveness and refinement.
Her music and her performance seem to discharge a flash of improvisation that is both ground-breaking and instinctive, the album perhaps unexpectedly charming, delectable and exuberant, in every denier of its warp and weft. Signe Emmeluth’s talent is a highly progressive ability, way above any anticipation for such a so-far- short career. Her jazz is significant and should you be toying with the idea of taking in some free jazz for the first time, she will give you a clear introduction to what it may contain. She is a very singular talent.
Reviewed by Ken Cheetham
