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Tantalising, very tantalising! While so many musicians are content to trundle along the same post-bop furrow, the Turkish pianist Ayse Tutuncu applies her precise technique to some eye-catching material, including a Cretan melody, a composition by the tango master Astor Piazzolla and an extended flurry of Free-ish improv on an old piano teacher’s warhorse by Debussy. The unusual instrumentation, pitching clarinet against saxophone, gives the group an added facet. Inspiration falters over the 10 tracks, but you hear enough individuality to want to seek out the trio next time they come our way. ***
Clive Davis, The Sunday Times, 07.01.2007
On hearing
this album one feels peaceful and happy as though having returned
from a trip to the carnival.
...The joy of experiment is present throughout the entire album;
the saxophone is played in a cool Nordic fashion at times
but then becomes almost like an oboe, just as the clarinet
sounding quite traditional as it is within an uzun hava and
then like a classical orchestra clarinet after two minutes.”
Nazan Özcan, Radikal
iki, 15.01.2006
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