What defines a duologue? What becomes as elements evaporate, what is contained in an instant’s inception, and, as if those miracles were insufficient, what infuses the shared connection of a creative act?

Just as Lispector expressed the wonder and ineffability of ordinary moments in words, Ivo Perelman and Damon Smith suffuse them with sound, each moment connected to the next, each gesture carrying its own history into a narrative of evolving exchange.

This is the sixth in Perelman’s Duologue series, an installment both like and unlike the others. All involve the spontaneous meetings between two musicians and all that those parameters entail. Superficially, each volume combines two languages in counterpoint, but each language is itself an amalgamation, and beyond that, a layered history of influences, techniques, and listening.

1. One [01:18]
2. Two [08:21]
3. Three [01:37]
4. Four [04:52]
5. Five [17:12]
6. Six [04:28]
7. Seven [01:13]
8. Eight [07:25]
9. Nine [11:23]
10. Ten [02:36]

This masterfully crafted, intellectually astute new musical masterpiece opens on the furtively pensive One and the playfully flirtatious Two and then we are gifted the searching Three, the low slung Four and the emotively sheer, 17-minute long Five.

Along next is the formidable staggered funk/jazz cut Six which is in turn backed by the softly smooth Seven, an impassioned, cultured resonance that is woven within Eight, the new set rounding out on the 11-minute fortitude of the infectiously engaging Nine, coming to a close on the joyfully perky and affecting Ten.

The music’s luminous essence emerges undimmed, stars and wind on water, in meditative and exultant ascent.

Musicians:
Ivo Perelman - Tenor Saxophone
Damon Smith - Double Bass

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