Lucas Dann’s first release on Elastic Recordings is a compelling document of a vibrant artistic mind in motion. Lucas improvises into existence this beautiful and reflective sonic universe with nothing but himself and a piano.
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Excerpt from liner notes below.
A philosophical problem that goes back to Aristotle. And in music a very real and constant problem. In improvised music it’s in my view the central problem
If something is intuitively improvised then what constitutes form? coincidence? Is that something a true improviser should reject or try to avoid? Or does it inevitably present itself because humans are limited by the forms they can imagine and so there is no escape from form.
On the other hand if music is truly the language of the gods and bigger than us then we should aspire to create beyond human boundaries.
In music (at least the music that has evolved in the Occident) it’s one of the main areas that improvisers work with still today. and it’s a tricky balance. There is a tendency for audiences and artists to want to understand what’s going on and creating form and relating to form is one of the things that can help make sense of it all.
Being trained in both the classical music tradition as well as the classic jazz tradition Lucas Dann is dealing with a lot of inherent substance or matter
The question is how do you avoid making that the form? and stay true to the sounds you have inside you? how do you take musical information that is so fundamentally form based and turn it into improvisational matter without making the form the main expression?
Listening to the document of Lucas Dann performing a completely improvised concert in Copenhagen is fascinating. It’s music that exists at the very frontline of this philosophical and artistic question.
