The miracle of a happy first encounter unfolds with something like the sudden ease of dreams, you can fly, what seemed impossible and insoluble is now radiant with self-evidence, the music makes itself, will anything again ever seem difficult? One night in Brooklyn a few years ago, an architecture of glimpses grew out from somewhere in the middle of time.There were rooms and towers and spaces and bridges, tangles and tangos, the dance of distance and convergence, and through it all the dawning discovery of a shared sense of balance, drama, form, resonance and sympathy. And then was forgotten...
So happy that Max Johnson instigated this encounter, that Simon was willing, that Randy Thaler documented the event, and that the document was unearthed from Simon's Vaults in the midst of a pandemic that has obliterated the possibility of such mischiefs and miracles, for musicians in Brooklyn at least, and at least for a while longer. Michaël Attias
1. Glimpses & Tangles 12:20
2. Gowanus By Night 05:25
3. Languid/The Spinning Song 16:13
4. Glances 08:29
5. Poetic Bug Bite 10:41
Michaël Attias - alto saxophone
Simon Nabatov - piano
recorded live at IBeam, Brooklyn on July 6 2014
recorded & mixed by Randy Thaler
mastered by Stefan Deistler
cover design by Erich Teneta
all music by Michaël Attias (Ravished Limbs Music/SESAC )
and Simon Nabatov (GEMA)
except The Spinning Song by Herbie Nichols
