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Syntopia Quartet: Mars

Read "Mars" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


This quasi Third Stream/free jazz/chamber jazz offering is the inaugural release from Germany's NEMU Records. With superior sound engineering enhacing the project, the strings-reeds-rhythm unit pursues minimalism, tightly structured thematic forays and adroit improvisational exercises. Many of these works are fabricated upon multi-part time divisions and the band's excellent use of depth and space. The musicians generate sweet tones and diminutive phrasings to complement hearty injections of briskly enacted unison runs.

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Mars

NEMU Records
2006

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Mars

NEMU Records
2005

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