Greek pianist/composer Tania Giannouli has delivered a number of interesting
and musically diverse albums for Rattle, among them those with her ensemble,
with saxophonist/clarinetist Paulo Chagas and with taonga puoro player Rob
Thorne and Rattle's Steve Garden add sonic effects.
So it's fair to say it would be unwise to predict just what type of
jazz/improvised music she would deliver with her trio of trumpeter Andreas
Polyzogopoulos and oud player Kyriakos Tapakis.
Certainly the lack of a rhythm section frees these pieces and allows them space
to take flight (as on the yearning, nine minute Hinemoa's Lament) or create a
mood of stateless unease (the appropriately titled and turbulent Disquiet).
There is quiet here too (Inland Sea and the title track right at the end).
Tania Giannouli makes jazz of the kind where improvisation is just the starting
point and somewhere out there -- or something deep inside -- is the aim.
