Phillip Dornbusch: Reconstruct

Playing sax and clarinet, Phillip Dornbusch creates a wide range of moods and messages with compatriot Johanna Summer/p, Johannes Mann/g and  Philip Dornbusch/dr. There are a couple guest vocals, notably JuJu Rogers rapping over the edgy rubato of “In Art We Trust” while Lina Knorr is breathy with the leader’s ethereal clarinet on the celestial “Good Faith”. The moods go from primary to secondary colors in the flash of a paintbrush, with Mann rocking out with Dornbusch’s tenor sax on the deep dig of “Demons” while the drummer creates a busy backbeat for askance solos on the loosely fitting “Constant Vacillation”. Sharp angles cut deep with bass and drum on “Inescapable Network of Mutuality” and the leader gets elliptical with Kintopf on “Doubts”. Thoughtful themes and variations.

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