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Brooklyn Calling reviewed on Kinda Muzik

KINDA MUSIC modern internet music magazine
Review by Remco Takken 22 -5-2004
William Parker & Ad Peijnenburg / Brooklyn Calling
CD Dino 32004 recorded 14 -1/ 15-1 2004 Brooklyn NY

The baritone sax is the kind of sax you don't hear so much.In the progressive rockgroup morphine there was playing a baritone but who knowns the name of the player ?( look at the answer below).

So we are talking about a special member of the sax family. The dutch (lives in eindhoven ) baritone saxplayer Ad Peijnenburg is one of the few that has the courage to experiment with sound and the musical form of his melodies. Together with the NY bass player William Parker he reaches an unprecedented dark coloured intimacy. I don't know if the power and clearness of Peijnenburg's frases is coming from his experience as a streetmusician or his natural interest in � real�composition . As a matter of fact he is never boring or playing notes that give you the feeling of to much. Although Parkers groupimprovisations suffers often from making it a bit to difficult there he is playing appropriate stuff with a beautifull tone.

At the end of the piece Notes from heaven we even hear a friendly walking bass. I wish this walk would have been a bit longer.

The absolute climax of this listening-CD is strange enough not when bari and bass go to the bottom. Streetwise is built around a fragile sopranino sax and a gentle plucked bass.

When you indulge yourself to the sometimes Indian frasing of Peijnenburg you will burst into chuckling when hearing the dog like howling effects which also are part of the vocabulaire .
But keep your attention otherwise while laughing you will mis many beautifull moments.
The naïve sounding humoristic children songs that are passing by are fragile and beautifull in a way you will seldom hear. Maybe only the british colleague- streetmusician Lol Coxhill with whom Peijnenburg used to play does it this way to.

Brooklyn Calling :: Out now!

William Parker vs. Ad Peijnenburg, recorded in NYC

View an impression of the concert in Burgers, with Ad Peijnenburg, William Parker ans Satoshi Ueda, here, or an impression of the gig in Kraaij en Balder here (with William Parker, Ad Peijnenburg and Mola Sylla).