Hiljaisuus, by Kuzu

Hiljaisuus

by Kuzu

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earleybr I just love anything Dave Rempis touches. His music here moves through the elegiac to the ecstatic. Tashi and Tyler play so powerfully on this and the three together make sound that is beyond music. What a gift! Thank you, gentlemen! Favorite track: Fontanelles 1 & 2.

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	1.	Fontanelles 1 & 2 30:17
	2.	Gash 14:39

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Fontanelles 1 & 2 30:12
Gash 14:40

Recorded September 13th, 2017
@ Elastic Arts, Chicago

Recorded/mixed/mastered by Dave Zuchowski

artwork by id m theft able
Design by Johnathan Crawford

Produced by Dave Rempis and Nate Cross
released in partnership with Astral Spirits Records

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released February 26, 2019

"The music on Hiljaisuus is a game of recurring structures. Harmonic islands consisting of staccato and repetitive patterns are used as springboards and fixed points for further improvisation." -Martin Schray, Free Jazz Blog
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KUZU is a hard-charging but patient trio that came together in the fall of 2017, after saxophonist Dave Rempis a stalwart of the Chicago improvised music scene, worked with both Tashi Dorji (guitar) and Tyler Damon (drums) individually as part of a lengthy solo tour of the U.S. that he undertook in the spring of that year. Dorji and Damon’s work as a guitar/percussion duo has become well-known, a highly refined and specific language developed through relentless touring and recording over the last few years, with a sound that straddles improvised music, rock, and any number of as-yet-undefined territories. These two provide an incredibly fresh take on the possibilities inherent to spontaneous composition. Superimposing Rempis into this mix was a logical next step after the relationships they’d forged individually.

The trio’s debut record HILJAISUUS (“silence” in Finnish…) features a highly focused pallet of sounds. At times, spacious gestures carve up the canvas with the austerity of a calligrapher, while at others those sparse gestures build into an unstoppable tsunami of energy. Those waves are never impulsive or impetuous though, they ebb and flow logically and patiently out of simple and clearly defined sources. This trio pursues every gesture with tenacity, passing them back and forth until they’ve explored every facet of an idea. Through it all, Kuzu emerges as a unit and not as a meeting of individuals.

This cd release is done in partnership with our friends at Astral Spirits, who released this same material on a limited edition vinyl LP in September 2018. Although the first pressing rapidly sold out, a second pressing is also now available from them.

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