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Jeremiah Cymerman - Purification/Dissolution [5049 Records - 2012]

“Purification/Dissolution” finds this composer and clarinettist offering up a collection of tracks that move between seared intensity, edgy broodiness, and great beauty.

Jeremiah Cymerman is from New York City,and has  worked with a wide range of artists/ collaborators such as: Toby Driver, Nate Wooley, Brian Chase, Mario Diaz de Leon,Christopher Hoffman, Jessica Pavone and Matthew Welch. This is his 5th album, and his past work have been released on labels such as Tzadik & Porter Records.

This CD release offers up five tracks that mix together Cymerman seared yet controlled Clarinet playing,  a mixture of amplifiers, snyths & electronics. The five tracks last between just under the three & a half minute mark, to the thirteen & a half minute. The first two tracks focus in on mostly dense & caustic interplay between the brooding & intense snyth drones, Cymerman snaking & searing Clarinet playing, and taut electronics. By the third track Cymerman has slowed the pace & mood way down with the truly beautiful “Secret Refuge” which finds a emotive & lush Clarinet playing out a winding & warming melody against a background of subtle electro texturing.

Track four “ The Nexus Of Unfreedom” moves all over the place from: a mixture of taut & controlled clarinet honks & bays, with wavering & brooding subtle electro drone textures below. To more playful interplays between compressed clarinet playing & improv electronics. Onto noisy & ear bleeding mixture of amped-up clarinet bays & electronics, before ending in with a mixture of scorching horn interplays & brooding synth drones. Lastly track five “The Grace Of Prayer At The Moment Of Death” drifts from  jazzy weaved  heady ambience, to more edgy/angular clarinet playing underfed by subtle/moody electro textural underplays.

This certainly is a very rewarding & captivating release through-out, with Cymerman easily shifting from moody intensity, though to beautiful melodic drifts, onto taut searing electro/ horn interplays. 

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Roger Batty
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