Consider the Plums, by Vera Morais & Hristo Goleminov

Consider the Plums

by Vera Morais & Hristo Goleminov

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1.	Peaches 02:27	buy track
2.	The Soughing Wind 03:02	buy track
3.	The Bare Tree 02:31	buy track
4.	Fresta 03:11	buy track
5.	The Term 03:47	buy track
6.	Grumos 03:38	buy track
7.	To a Poor Old Woman 02:18	buy track
8.	Fog 04:56	buy track
9.	Improvisação (Live @ 12º Festival Porta-Jazz) 04:07	buy track
10.	This Is Just To Say (Live @ 12º Festival Porta-Jazz) 02:04	buy track

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“Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery”, wrote William Carlos Williams in Paterson. There is plenty of that here: a joy in the awkward intervals, the ugly sounds, the squeaks and the yelps and the mischief which comprise so much of the music of real life. The duo setting can be one of the most unvarnished and honest in our music: a perfect expression, perhaps, of the economy so valued by the imagist movement.

So it is that Vera Morais and Hristo Goleminov have created a magical
vehicle for their chosen texts. Indeed, we can almost leave it at this:
parsimonious yet human and never stern, their music feels like Williams’ texts look on the page.

The experience of a text need not, of course, be linear: a particular pleasure of reading lies in the possibility of retracing ones steps. These performances are similar. Consider in ‘To a Poor Old Woman’, as Vera riffs on the line ‘they taste good to her’, shifting the stresses within the line, bouncing light off it from different angles, sending the word order through various permutations (just as Hristo does with his musical gestures), and playfully finding new meanings: good to/too good, taste good/good taste, and so on.

Yet as surely as they make discoveries with dissonance, the duo also exhibit consonance in a profound sense. Listen to the grace with which they feel the speech rhythms together, or the completely unforced way they dance between foreground and background. There is a genuine empathy between the performers, and between the performers and their texts. How fitting that they should have turned to the work of William Carlos Williams: one of the great observers of people, and one of the most empathetic of poets.

Alexander Hawkins, Oxford, August 2022

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released September 3, 2022

Vera Morais - Voice
Hristo Goleminov - Tenor Saxophone

Compositions by Vera Morais and Hristo Goleminov, except 'Fresta' (Vera Morais) and 'Grumos' (Hristo Goleminov)
Poetry by William Carlos Williams, except 'Peaches' and 'Fog' (Vera Morais)

Recorded on April 14th 2022 by Nuno Couto at Estúdios CARA
Tracks 9 and 10 recorded live on February 5th 2022 by Artur Pinheiro at 12º Festival Porta-Jazz
Mixed and mastered by Nuno Couto
Art and package by mariamonica.com

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Hristo Goleminov Amsterdam, Netherlands

Saxophonist, composer, multi-instrumentalist.
Working on free improvisation, composition based on baroque music, leading an octet and sharing a duo.

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