Taking us from dissonance to totally unexpected consonance, Gad holds us spell-bound and takes our breath away

Gad likes to think of and describe his music as supplication. This could seem pitiably naive, the self-induced ecstasy of a bigot. But in fact the opposite is true. He composes his music in the way that great mystics pray, for whom prayer is a way of keeping vigil, a form of vigilance rather than a form of devotion. His asceticism has taken him far in the knowledge of the language of harmony, which he combines with admirable skill with the modal roots of Hungarian music developed at the boundary of eastern and western cultures. His extraordinary lucidity creates remarkably appropriate structures, inhabited by our three marvellous free-thinkers. Taking us from dissonance to totally unexpected consonance, he disorients us until our head reels, sweeps us along until we are lost, holds us spell-bound and takes our breath away.
Franck Bergerot, Jazzman

Track Listing

• Balkan Ballad
• Orthodoxia
• There Is No Getting Used to Life
• Reconstruction
• Stalker
• Cathedral
• Malte Laurids Brigge
• Syberiada (in memory of Joseph Brodsky)

Additional Details

Label:BMC Records

Genre:Jazz

Language:English

Run Time:52 mins

Release Date:10/15/02

UPC:5998309300837