Susana Santos Silva, Torbjörn Zetterberg, Hampus Lindwall - If Nothing Else (2015)

Susana Santos Silva / Torbjörn Zetterberg / Hampus Lindwall
If Nothing Else
2015 - Clean Feed Records: CF348CD
http://www.cleanfeed-records.com/product/if-nothing-else/



* Susana Santos Silva : trumpet, flugelhorn
* Torbjörn Zetterberg : double bass
* Hampus Lindwall : organ

https://tzssshl.tumblr.com/

http://www.susanasantossilva.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Torbj%C3%B6rn_Zetterberg_Hot_Five
http://www.hampuslindwall.com/

Recorded in Église du Saint-Esprit in Paris, France,
on Feburary 20th, 21st and 23rd, 2014.

Reviews

By Stef
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2015/11/the-various-faces-of-susanna-santos.html

[...]

The second album is of a totally different nature. These are sounds of great
distances, with an unusual line-up of trumpet, bass and organ, played by Susana
Santos Silva, Torbjörn Zetterberg and Hampus Lindwall. Santos Silva and
Zetterberg will be known to our readers, but Lindwall probably not, at least
not to me, and that's because he is mainly a performer of classical
contemporary music, and he also is the "titular organist of the Saint-Esprit
Church in Paris".

So the sound of great distances, with the trumpet played with as if from the
other end of a huge resonating space, with the organ offering an incredible
somber and eery depth, and the bass is in between, probably closest to the
listener, but equally epic in nature, and can be at times reminiscent of the
Scandinavian sound of some ECM albums. It is expansive, open-ended, grand. Yet
in contrast to the ECM sound, it has a darkness that is at times uncanny, as on
"Atonality", where the muted horn plays a sad improvisation supported by
quietly wailing arco bass and the distant organ, that gives a single bass drone
and a few sustained chords, and then the whole intense edifice reduces itself
to atonal, barely audible sounds.

The album consists of eleven improvisations, and they keep their unique
approach to the overall sound and interaction in a very consistent way, often
fascinating, daring, and above all mesmerising and moving. Even the last track,
"One Note Song", is exactly what it says, yet when the beginning sounds like
the sustained sound of a fog horn of a distant ship, the shifts in intensity
and timbre turn it into something more somber and devastating, with just one
note, just to showcase the vision behind the music and the quality of the three
musicians to deliver it.

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By Grego Applegate Edwards
http://gapplegatemusicreview.blogspot.com/2016/03/susana-santos-silva-if-nothing-else.html

Guy Peters (nl)
http://www.enola.be/muziek/artikels/25997:the-portuguese-connection-2015-pt-5-susana-santos-silva-earnear

Predrag Vlahović (ba)
http://www.jazzin.rs/santos-silva-zetterberg-lindwall-if-nothing-else-clean-feed/

Leif Carlsson (se)
http://www.lira.se/skivrecension/if-nothing-else/

Joacim Nyberg (se)
http://www.soundofmusic.nu/recension/torbjorn-zetterberg-x2

Jan Granlie (no)
http://salt-peanuts.eu/record/santos-silva-zetterberg-lindwall/

Por Nuno Catarino (pt)
https://www.publico.pt/2016/02/10/culturaipsilon/critica/a-expressividade-de-susana-1722823