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Bruno Guastalla



Last Updated: 11/26/2009

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City: OXFORD
State: Midlands
Country: UK
Signup Date: 4/20/2007

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Monday, February 09, 2009 
 Here is a review  in the "Oxford Times" of the trio's joint Oxford concert with Evan Parker and Steve Grew on the 26th October 2007:......"On Friday evening a double bill of saxophonist Evan Parker in duo with Stephen Grew and the Imaginary String Trio of Phil Wachsmann, Bruno Guastalla and Dominic Lash briskly destroyed the notion that free improvisation entails a group of musicians all blasting away with little or no reference to each other. The Imaginary String Trio were exquisitely aware, harmonious and intense, while the magisterial outpourings from Evan Parker's soprano were given further depth by the more structured interventions from Grew on the piano.".

Sunday, November 09, 2008 
Friday, May 04, 2007 

Julian Cowley described it as follows in The Wire, June 2006: 'Their duo recording Grazing comprises two tracks, pastorally entitled "Clover" and "Rye", each nearly 23 minutes in length. Their improvising is soberly investigative and self-instructive, likeminded yet earnestly attentive. The shared aim is clearly not a matter of pyrotechnics but of correspondence, serendipitous discovery and responsiveness. Caution and exploratory spirit coexist in a manner that works; form without mimicry. There's a sense of eavesdropping about this music, although with just 100 copies in existence it will remain more or less a private conversation. It's not idle chatter.'

Dan Warburton, on Paris Transatlantic, had this to say: 'Events unfold slowly but logically, like chess made audible. Occasionally a surprise move - an unexpected exchange of queens or sudden diagonal swoop across the board by a frisky bishop - prompts a swift and decisive change of direction, but the game soon resumes its stately progress. Orthodox and unorthodox playing techniques coexist without confrontation; both players are equally willing, when circumstances demand, to develop traditional notions of pitch and interval, but are just as happy exploring the outer reaches of friction and percussion on their venerable instruments, in a performance of great physicality and maturity.'