Paulo Chagas/Samuel Hällkvist/Stephan Sieben

Paulo Chagas/Samuel Hällkvist/Stephan Sieben: Days Are Not Days

by Mark Corroto
December 20, 2016

When an improvised recording presents itself as a meteor, some foreign object from another civilization, like Days Are Not Days does, we should rejoice that it has entered our atmosphere and like a bolide, exploded upon contact. Okay, this recording by Portuguese saxophonist and flutist Paulo Chagas, and guitarists Samuel Hällkvist, from Sweden, and Stephan Sieben, from Denmark, isn't a bomb. It is, though, an improvised explosive device, pieced together from chamber music debris, ambient dregs, noisy scraps, ...