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Slide Show
This is the first night for what I can guarantee is going to be one hell of a lot of music in a week for three humans to create. Chamber Music
Most people are afraid of monsters but this morphing, thirty fingered, six armed mental sound producing machine doesn’t bite. It does swing though, so watch out or you might become enthralled by its Giant Steps! On the battlefield of Cerebellum, you will find yourself in a chess match with the music. Checkmate! How did that happen?
Well, the music is an intoxicating splendor of floating kaleidoscopic shapes, colors, patterns and phrases that you must listen to and concentrate on. If you stare long enough, the painting appears before your eyes with the clue that you have been looking for. You are so enamored by the Cirque de Soleil of feats that you did not realize that the powers of the music have taken control of all of your senses. You can feel, taste, hear, touch and smell the Monk, Trane and Duke in the mix. The game has been played before you could make one move.
Jean Michel Pilc and his trio of Ari Honig on drums and Francois Moutin on bass played a five part suite that resembled the wonder and amazement of a journey up, down, through and across the fabric, layers and texture of landscapes less traveled. The natural elements of earth, the ocean’s current and the dark lurking imagery that nightfall can bring upon one’s imagination. One moment the chase is on and the next finds you focusing on the precipitation of a rose in the early morning. The tender transitions have the musicians act as characters stepping seamlessly out of one scene into four parts of another. From Technicolor into sepia tones to black and white and back.
