Ebbs and Flows

by Anastasios Savvopoulos AZURE

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Ebbs and Flows 08:03
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2.
Remnants 08:32
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3.
Auftrieb I 04:00
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Auftrieb II 03:40
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Auftrieb III 04:44
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Reflections 03:20
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Azure 07:11
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Bygones 08:05
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"Released via the ever active Aut Records imprint on March 12th, 2020 is "Ebbs And Flows", the new album by the freshly founded quartet Azure which is led by Anastasios Savvapoulos who is joined by fellow musicians Peter Ehwald, Antonis Anissegos and Ludwig Wandinger in his musical adventures. Somewhat inspired by Kandinsky's thoughts on form, expression and necessity the quartet offers a menu of nine compositions on this longplayer, stretched out over a total of roughly 51 minutes and presenting a take on Jazz surely influenced by a classical, complex yet structured approach to the genre which makes tunes like the fascinatingly thrilling "Ebbs And Flow Part II", the deep grooves of "Remnants" as well as the tender, crystalline piano lines in "Reflections" highly relatable for an audience not necessarily familiar with the technicality, dissonance and hypercomplexity often times found in genres like Improv or FreeJazz and therefore might be functioning as a perfect gateway into the world of advanced Jazz for beginners and a highly appreciated journey into intricate melodic mastership for long time genre connaisseurs." nitestylez.de


"Musica fresca e imprevedibile, dal suono eccellente, grazie anche alle individualità, tutte da seguire con attenzione". Neri Pollastri All About Jazz

Kandinsky noted on the problem of form that “Since the form is only an expression of the content and the content is different with different artists, it is then clear that there can be many different forms at the same time which are equally good. Necessity creates the form”. He then stresses the fact that this necessity is an inner necessity. His statement that “the form is the outer expression of the inner content” brings the conclusion that “the form bears the stamp of the personality”.

The album “Ebbs and Flows” of my new quartet AZURE is a work which expresses this very idiosyncratic approach to creation and interaction of musical material. Its melodic character remains dissonant throughout while the asymmetrical phrase structure within various cyclic patterns of asymmetrical beats result in a sense of disorientation.

But the work remains uncompleted, because the very complexity of continuously ordering and reordering the elements in order to form a rather coherent whole, is mediated by an inner spirit that seeks transformation through new means of expression. The value in every such attempt is the placing of new problematics and the seeds to find and formulate that which must come next.

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released March 15, 2020

Tracks composed by Anastasios Savvopoulos

Recorded by Sebastian Ohmert Sonic Impulse at D-Room, Hannover, in June 2019

Mixed and Mastered by Sebastian Ohmert Sonic Impulse in Berlin in August 2019

Artwork and Layout by Sandro Crisafi

Produced by Anastasios Savvopoulos and Aut Records

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Anastasios Savvopoulos Berlin, Germany

Anastasios Savvopoulos is an avant-garde Berlin based composer and guitarist, for progressive jazz, and free improvised music .

He has released several albums as band leader, composer and producer with IORI TRIO (Konnex Records 2012, Unit Records 2015) OUXPO (inexhaustible editions 2019,2020) and with AZURE (AUT Records 2020, 2021) ... more

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