Gilbert Isbin & Geert Verbeke – Twins
€13,50 €9,68
Description
Track Listing:
1. Amphora - 1:48 2. Royal Tune - 3:11 3. Saskia Maya - 6:05 4. Secrets - 4:30 5. Nazca - 2:29 6. Wide - 2:14 7. Threat - 2:46 8. Embrace - 2:33 9. Jonas and The Fish - 2:23 10. Open Day - 4:11 11. Apple - 3:15 12. Loop - 4:04 13. Tingsha's - 5:30 14. Child - 2:56 15. Koko - 1:24
Personnel:
Gilbert Isbin (guitars) , Geert Verbeke (percussion)
Reviews:
1. Jazzreview.com – Lee Prosser
The duo of Gilbert Isbin (Guitar) and Geert Verbeke (various percussion) bring to the listener an adventurous exploration into the various possibilities between these two instruments. All compositions are written by these two musicians.
Opening with "Amphora" a melodic yet brief piece that feature both musicians. Geert keeping a steady rhythm while Gilbert explores his guitar gently playing over Geert's rhythmic patterns.
"Saskia Maya" is a haunting piece beginning with Geert's bells and other shaker like percussion. Setting the stage for a strange yet wonderful journey into instrument exploration. Gilbert's low sounding guitar entering at various locations complementing the sea of percussion drifting across a sparse musical backdrop.
The soft guitar intro on "Loop" along with the steady stream of background sounds make this an interesting and exploratory journey bordering on Industrial music. it's interesting how these two musicians play closely together creating sounds from space and time.
Isbin and Verbeke play well together and have created an experience that will interest the listener, and may well propel the listener to further explore more recordings of this genre. It's fascinating the sounds that can be created, manipulated and explored by these two talented musicians.
2. Eurock (online).- Archie Patterson
It has been some time since I'd heard new material by Belgian guitarist Gilbert Isbin (remember the beautiful and pristine work PURE?). The good news is that TWINS is even better. A collaborative work with percussionist Geert Verbeke, the music is a mystical fusion of classical guitar, and prepared guitar soundscapes, complemented beautifully by a variety of exotic percussive textures and effects.
The sound is simple, spatial and organic with emphasis shifting from a traditional guitar sound to experimental passages with ease. Highly recommended."
3. Allaboutjazz - Robert Spencer
A most unusual and inviting disc: Gilbert Isbin plays guitar (classical and prepared), and Geert Verbeke plays a variety of percussion instruments. Together they make meditative, refreshing, and inviting music that often tends toward East Asian models both in sound quality and in sonic depth.
There's a great variety to the sound. On "Secrets," for example, they seem to be able to achieve the shimmering sound of a synthesizer with acoustic effects alone: the beautiful natural resonance of bells, underlined by a string effect that's almost vocal. The opener, "Amphora," tends toward the world of the raga, while other tracks like "Saskia Maya" draw on the percussive sonorities of other, lesser known cultures. "Threat" plays off guitar scribbles that convey the sense of foreboding without ever breaking the musical texture. Nor is a grim visage required: the brief closing "Koko," for example, is wild and playful.
This disc should not be missed by anyone who appreciates the sound of genuine and non-clichéd acoustic guitar, expertly supported by an imaginative percussionist.
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