The impassable "Lady Bird" is full of figures and feints; they are collage-like alternations between public life, busyness and intimate inwardness, holding dialogues. In the solo part, the soprano saxophone and piano emerge as if from cages and chatter away offensively: playful, garrulous, silly, which, against the background of the working rhythm section, sounds like the caprices of card-playing songbirds. The show only comes to an end when it becomes clear that what was intended as apotheosis threatens to become apocalypse. How quickly it can end with us and how ghostly cataclysmic devastation would sound is illustrated by the final ruin chants of a handful of survivors.
credits
from SOMEDAY,
released November 8, 2022
Paul Bernewitz, piano
Jonas Sorgenfrei, drums
Amelie-Marie Richarz, doublebass
Paul Scheugenpflug, sax
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