This song will be released September 9 on the album 4.9 by ears&eyes records.
This new trio and project arises from the album Hastío y Paranoia, by Matías Formica (released on his label Numeral in 2021), in which there are two pieces recorded by Giménez López, Golombisky and Formica. After the two pieces for Hastío y Paranoia, a remaining three hours of material was left and resulted in the pieces being released here on 4.9. The idea of the session had been to record spontaneous music without clear guidelines, but as the session progressed they were modified, with slight indications to generate different sound results.
Matthew said out loud after soundcheck his love for playing free music and spontaneously composed pieces are something that can result in what might seem as previously worked out material. In that while we were to improvise freely, it’s ok to stop short of what is often conceived as a freely improvised piece of music; ie. it’s ok to stop after two or three minutes if the vibe is discovered, explored sufficiently, there’s not necessarily a reason to keep going… just stop and let that be the tune. All tunes (except one) are under five minutes and most are in the three-minute range, all relating to one of his ideas within the concept of “free pop”.
The different sound combinations, both the more acoustic forms (alto sax, piano, and electric bass), as well as the more electronic ones with the addition of the synthesizer and the bass effect pedals end up providing very different atmospheres overall during the 14 tracks. Matthew’s use of other sound producers such as Tibetan singing bowls, elephant bells, and cassette decks creates further textures.
ROCIO GIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ, a pianist and improviser from the city of Rosario, Argentina earned a degree from the Provincial School of Music. She studied jazz and improvisation with Carlos Casazza and Ernesto Jodos and took classes with Leo Genovese, Marilyn Crispell, Craig Taborn, among others. In 2015 she won a scholarship granted by the FNA to participate in the III Third National Meeting of Composition and Improvisation, in Bariloche; and in 2017 a training scholarship to study with the pianist Marilyn Crispell in Woodstock, New York. In recent years she has actively participated in the Rosario and Buenos Aires scenes and has been invited to participate with different groups in national festivals such as Fontanarrosa Jazz Festival (Rosario), Conti Jazz Festival (BsAs) and Buenos Aires International Jazz Festival (2019, 2020), and Santa Fe Jazz Festival 2021.
Born in the city of La Plata, Argentina. Flutist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger, MATÍAS FORMICA began his flute studies at the age of 14 (the year 2000) with the teacher Martín Saenz. He studied with Pablo Ledesma, Rodrigo Domínguez, Juan Pablo Di Leone, Juan Pablo Arredondo, André Marques, Lea Freire, Tony Malaby, Tim Berne, Ralph Alessi, among others. He participated in various projects, as an instrumentalist, arranger, and composer. His first album was “Compendio de ideas sobre deformaciones” with his group El Domo (original compositions), the second “AISLADOS” as a duo with Jonatan Schenone, his third work “Hastío y Paranoia” trio disc with twelve guests. He has recorded in other shared projects such as “No Comunica”, with Lara Alarcón, Pablo Ledesma, Marcos Edward and Cristian Carracedo, among others.
MATTHEW GOLOMBISKY is an active bassist, composer, ears&eyes Records director/founder, producer, conductor (Tomorrow Music Orchestra, IfCM, Creer Es Crear), improviser, arranger, orchestrator, sound designer, and festival stage manager/curator. His discography includes over 60 recordings including the Lucky 7s, Via Tania, Pedway, Quintopus, Jimmy Bennington, Bill MacKay, Daylight Dies and more. Matthew has lived and been active in music, festival, and film scenes in the Bay Area CA, Chicago, New Orleans, Buenos Aires, New York, and Asheville NC, as well as toured the USA and Europe with bands and musicians such as Caroline Davis, Quin Kirchner, IfCM, NOMO, Zing!, Jhelisa, WATIV, QMRplus, and more. His undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Asheville led to a B.A. in Jazz Studies/Bass Performance with an emphasis on 20th Century Classical music & theory and graduate studies to a Master’s degree in (classical) Composition from the University of New Orleans after a brief stint at Northwestern University after Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans in August 2005. He joined the IfCM Collective to travel the USA, teaching clinics to high school and college students his methods of composing, improvising and conducting. His composition style is wide-ranging, steeped in modern classical, experimental, thoughtful, electronic, sound design, jazz, rock and pop genres, but never limits himself to anything and absorbs all music experienced. He creates moods and aural images that captivate, intrigue, invigorate, confuse and/or excite his listening (and non-listening) audience.
