{"id":3467,"date":"2015-06-10T12:26:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T16:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=3467"},"modified":"2015-06-22T14:54:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T18:54:20","slug":"now-ensemble-dreamfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/now-ensemble-dreamfall\/","title":{"rendered":"NOW Ensemble <br>Dreamfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/now_ensemble-dreamfall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3468\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/now_ensemble-dreamfall.jpg\" alt=\"NOW Ensemble, Dreamfall\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/now_ensemble-dreamfall.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/now_ensemble-dreamfall-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>For the 10 years of its existence, NOW Ensemble\u2014Sara Budde (clarinet and bass clarinet), Logan Cole (double bass), Michael Mizrahi (piano), Alexandra Sopp (flute), and Mark Dancigers (guitar)\u2014has been on a constant uphill rise as it\u2019s coalesced as a quintet. <i>Dreamfall<\/i> (New Amsterdam Records) is an album that deals in panoramic widescreen vistas, but populates them with objects in intense, sharp definition. Apropos of its name, it works in drifting, shifting moods, but breaks this up with a taste for the surreal as a surprising juxtaposition.<\/p>\n<p>The record\u2019s heart is its title piece, which was written by Dancigers and is divided into three movements. The first movement glitters with tiny cells that pulse and shift. The breathy growl of Budde\u2019s clarinet seems to nudge on the lush lyricism of Mizrahi\u2019s piano. Cole\u2019s bass moves between a pizzicato heartbeat to gorgeous arco work that feeds and enriches everything else like a heart pumping blood to the rest of the body. The flute carries most of the melody with a tear in its throat. The pulse-quickened harmonies of the flute and clarinet recede broad swaths of background color as Dancigers\u2019 guitar arpeggios bubble to the fore, teasing the piano. The woodwinds come back like a chorus and the overall effect is a blossoming, a time-lapse. There\u2019s some pain in its seduction and the worry that mystery implies. The finale amplifies both the tense melancholy of the middle section, but also delivers on the warm promise of the opening. As the melodic material introduced earlier coalesces and resolves, there\u2019s a warmth that flows over everything like a golden light, led by Mizrahi\u2019s piano lines shaded by Sopp\u2019s flute, with bursts of group-playing toward the end activating and engaging the senses. The introduced chaos that rushes in at the track\u2019s conclusion doesn\u2019t rely on false drama; it\u2019s a wake-up call, but it doesn\u2019t lose that warmth. The breathtaking conclusion of this multi-headed beast manages to sum up the preceding 20 minutes without betraying the ambiguity at the dark heart of its beauty.<\/p>\n<p><i>Dreamfall<\/i> never lags, but there are definite highlights. From its opening guitar notes, Sarah Kirkland Snider\u2019s \u201cPale As Centuries\u201d conjures the ornate beauty of antiquity and strips it away to show every layer and bone. Budde\u2019s clarinet and Sopp\u2019s flute circle higher around one another into flights of fancy that crystallize into gorgeous shapes. When Dancigers\u2019 sharp, percussive chords rise to the fore like a summer storm, it\u2019s a clarion call to attention before melting back into a thick sensual bass and bass clarinet thrum with thick strokes of flute. Andrea Mazzariello\u2019s \u201cTrust Fall\u201d uses percussive piano and slightly distorted, ringing guitar to drive a fluid piece that makes the best use of negative space on the record. It lopes with an assured swagger and conjures that feeling of nerves, of not being sure if you\u2019ll be caught, as well as that\u2019s been captured in music.<\/p>\n<p><i>Dreamfall<\/i> gold-plates NOW Ensemble\u2019s status in the NYC new music world and anoints it with beautiful flame. 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