Verbs, by Simon Nabatov 3+2

Verbs

by Simon Nabatov 3+2

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	1.	Pray 09:04
	2.	Race 08:25
	3.	Reveal 07:21
	4.	Breathe 08:02
	5.	Converge 11:55
	6.	Evolve 05:50
	7.	Float 04:18

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Verbs in and by themselves are substantival and have significance, for he who uses such expressions arrests the hearer’s mind...
(Aristotle, On Interpretation)

Language becomes a spellbinding repository for intoxicating revelation and cryptic imagery on Verbs, the latest full-length from the remarkable Russian-American pianist Simon Nabatov, a stunning release augmenting his already notable Clean Feed catalogue including this year’s Tender Mercies with German reedist Frank Gratkowski.

Spearheading his augmented Cologne-based 3+2 quintet, featuring new recruits Leonhard Huhn and Phillip Zoubek, alongside familiar trio members Stefan Schönegg and Dominik Mahnig, Nabatov interprets a series of urging semantics as programmatic springboards for glorious spontaneous invention, a lexical calls-to-arms instigating disparate, virtuosic responses; titular signifiers doubling-up as mood-indicators, signalling variances in tempo, pitch, tone and timbre.

Each of the album’s seven dynamic cuts – all collective improvisations, with the exception of Nabatov’s ‘Breathe’ – harbours an enigmatic sting in the tale,
the quintet scrying for inscrutable layers of additional meaning behind their original impetus, setting in motion a succession of curve-balling epiphanies, alternating between splendid repose and febrile animation.

From the flickering embers of the plaintively purring ‘Prayer’ and hyper-kinetic, fragmented urgency of ‘Race’, to ‘Evolve’’s mangled retro-futurist bustle and the tentative blooms of the shuffling, ever-ripening ‘Reveal’, Nabatov and his fearless crew of cryptographers set out their mystery-laden credos like a kabbalistic bill-of-fare to be incrementally decoded with each successive listen.

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released October 20, 2023

Leonhard Huhn alto saxophone, clarinet
Philip Zoubek synthesizers
Simon Nabatov piano
Stefan Schönegg double bass
Dominik Mahnig drums

all music improvised, except track 4 - by Simon Nabatov (GEMA)

Recorded October 1, 2022, at the LOFT, Cologne, Germany by Stefan Deistler | Mixed and mastered by Stefan Deistler
Produced by Simon Nabatov | Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul | Design by Travassos

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