SLAVA GANELIN / LENNY SENDERSKY - Hotel Cinema
Leo Records CD LR 764
Slava Ganelin, Korg microSTATION Micro Synthesizer and Dell PC; Lenny Sendersky, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
Recorded live April 7, 2016, at Hotel Cinema, Dizengoff Square, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Here is yet another album of spontaneous music, recorded live and with no pre-recorded moments or pre-composed ideas at play. It is also free of any post-recording editing.
This new Ganelin duo calls on Slava Ganelin to subvert his indubitable piano skills in order to use a keyboard synthesiser and to do so without leaning back towards the piano, nor towards echoes of the Ganelin Trio. Instead we are presented with an opus, a symphony of a thousand, and an epic piece of impulsive, unstructured music that has all the promise and possibilities of an orchestral piece with vocal and choir. There are flutes, a guitar, trombones and violins and much woodwind, all through synthetic mimicries. The young saxophonist, Lenny Sendersky, is fully able to excel in his role as the second string of this extraordinary duo, unquestionably driven by Ganelin, but matched by Sendersky’s musical charisma and charm.
Reviewed by Ken Cheetham
Leo Records CD LR 764
Slava Ganelin, Korg microSTATION Micro Synthesizer and Dell PC; Lenny Sendersky, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
Recorded live April 7, 2016, at Hotel Cinema, Dizengoff Square, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Here is yet another album of spontaneous music, recorded live and with no pre-recorded moments or pre-composed ideas at play. It is also free of any post-recording editing.
This new Ganelin duo calls on Slava Ganelin to subvert his indubitable piano skills in order to use a keyboard synthesiser and to do so without leaning back towards the piano, nor towards echoes of the Ganelin Trio. Instead we are presented with an opus, a symphony of a thousand, and an epic piece of impulsive, unstructured music that has all the promise and possibilities of an orchestral piece with vocal and choir. There are flutes, a guitar, trombones and violins and much woodwind, all through synthetic mimicries. The young saxophonist, Lenny Sendersky, is fully able to excel in his role as the second string of this extraordinary duo, unquestionably driven by Ganelin, but matched by Sendersky’s musical charisma and charm.
Reviewed by Ken Cheetham
