THE HATCH (METTE RASMUSSEN JULIEN DESPREZ)
Genres: Jazz Related Improv, Composition, Avant-Garde Jazz • Multi-National

If you're mainly acquainted with Mette Rasmussen through her collaborations with American musicians like Chris Corsano and Paul Flaherty, this record will change your perspective as surely as having the glasses knocked off of your nose will affect your vision. When in America, she seems to have done as certain Americans before her have done. There's a long tradition of fire music here, and she's plugged into it. But there's more to her than that. In the company of French guitarist Julien Desprez, the Danish alto saxophonist's playing is just as fiery but less bound by tradition. Instead of riding the molten flow, this duo creates music that feels chopped and scrambled even though it is being made before your ears. At some points she plays coarse exhalations and brief, effortful gulps, which toss and tumble with the guitarist's pops, harmonics and scrapes like a salad of nuts and apples that's read more...