Tzadik Henry Kaiser, Charles K.Noyes, Sang-Won Park : Invite The Spirit (SKO,1983,re.2007)**°
I think I need to listen a few more times to this release to get a full grip on it. It surely is grounded in a mixture of free music improvisation and the sensibility of the playing on the Korean zither in Korean mode. At first the group is very careful tuning in into one another with open space. There are tried a few deliberate break-throughs at first with somewhat disturbing off-keys or produced sounds while remaining rooted in the rhythms and Korean melody mode of the very physical playing, this rhythmic pulse is engaging further and slightly developing, in tune with that and a bit taking off course with its own freedom at the same time. The subtle chord between the trio is kept intact and thoroughly develops its own voice a bit despite its tendencies to either remain in safe tradition or break with it disharmoniously, some communicative field is developing slowly in between. We also hear some singing-saw like elements, percussive lead accents, slide guitar and such. And there’s also added some singing which fits very well. The advantage of free music is that somehow a new world of expression can be discovered throughout its exploration. But because deliberately this never is intended to make any separate form of conclusion or preference, or is leading to the discovery area itself with extra structural thoughts, it also never expands that subtle now-area of coincidental meeting points always fused a bit deliberately by making chaos before the creation, resulting in that sort of balance that wins the moments but that also swallows them back in immediately.
