TIM O’DWYER – The Fold
Leo Records CD LR 721
Tim O’Dwyer, saxophones; Carl Ludwig Hübsch, tuba; Bassem Hawar, djose; Carl Rosman, Clarinets; Saad Thamir, percussion, voice
Recorded at Topaz Audio Studios, Köln, Germany, June, 2014.
The djose is thought to be the four-stringed Iraqi instrument, at least related to the rebab or spike-fiddle rebab and also known as the joza and the jawza. Spelling the name depends on the origin of each individual style and they are widely spread, from North Africa, through parts of Europe and the Middle East to the Far East and including China, Mongolia, Korea, Thailand and Japan.
The Fold is an ongoing international collaborative project directed by Australian saxophonist Timothy O'Dwyer, Head of the School of Contemporary Music at LaSalle College of the Arts in Singapore. His background is in punk-jazz and free improvisation.
O'Dwyer’s intention is clearly to reconnoitre the binding limitations of method and style and to encourage the musicians to become researchers into composition and improvisation so that their music develops on the run, during each performance. Thus a collective is formed and the result of the collaboration is heard here. Much of it is redolent of folk origins, but all of it really sounds like it holds its place flanked by the West and the East, in between modern and ancient. Music ballooning across cultural borders and the orthodoxy of musical presentation. Fascinating stuff
Reviewed by Ken Cheetham
Leo Records CD LR 721
Tim O’Dwyer, saxophones; Carl Ludwig Hübsch, tuba; Bassem Hawar, djose; Carl Rosman, Clarinets; Saad Thamir, percussion, voice
Recorded at Topaz Audio Studios, Köln, Germany, June, 2014.
The djose is thought to be the four-stringed Iraqi instrument, at least related to the rebab or spike-fiddle rebab and also known as the joza and the jawza. Spelling the name depends on the origin of each individual style and they are widely spread, from North Africa, through parts of Europe and the Middle East to the Far East and including China, Mongolia, Korea, Thailand and Japan.
The Fold is an ongoing international collaborative project directed by Australian saxophonist Timothy O'Dwyer, Head of the School of Contemporary Music at LaSalle College of the Arts in Singapore. His background is in punk-jazz and free improvisation.
O'Dwyer’s intention is clearly to reconnoitre the binding limitations of method and style and to encourage the musicians to become researchers into composition and improvisation so that their music develops on the run, during each performance. Thus a collective is formed and the result of the collaboration is heard here. Much of it is redolent of folk origins, but all of it really sounds like it holds its place flanked by the West and the East, in between modern and ancient. Music ballooning across cultural borders and the orthodoxy of musical presentation. Fascinating stuff
Reviewed by Ken Cheetham
