Thursday, May 20, 2021

Stephen Horenstein and Eyal Netzer - Speaking Through the Walls (2021 JICM Recordings)

An orchestra of two players filled with energy and determination, filling space and time with bursts of sound. Two generations in sync celebrating the tradition of two tenor saxophones in dialogue through traditional, contemporary and experimental forms. The music bursts with cries, walls and prophecies that are sometimes disturbing, sometimes soothing. The walls? They crack, they even break, they permeate like circles within circles, one moving at a steady pace, the other, reeling at phenomenal speeds. Side by side. We speak to each other. Are we heard? Are we understood? Ultimately, at the end of the day, we are each alone until awakened by our next adventure of synchronicity. S. Horenstein

1. Black Woman 05:12
2. Pure Poetry 06:18
3. Sunset 05:37
4. Free Verse 04:50
5. Come, Speak to Me 07:57
6. Sunrise 05:35
7. Earth Element 08:19
8. Breaking the Walls 03:51

Stephen Horenstein: Soprano & Tenor Saxophones; Drums
Eyal Netzer: Tenor Saxophone; Drums

Recorded Live by Stephen Horenstein in Jerusalem, Israel
November 2017
Special thanks to Ruth Mason & Bob Trachtenberg
Mixed by Stephen Horenstein & Eyal Netzer
Produced by Stephen Horenstein & Eyal Netzer
Designed by Eitan Zelwer
Executive Producer: Ernesto Rodrigues, Creative Sources