Hearth
Melt
2021 - Clean Feed Records: CF564CD
https://cleanfeed-records.com/product/melt/
https://susanasantossilva./album/melt
https://kajadraksler./album/melt

* Susana Santos Silva: trumpet
* Mette Rasmussen    : alto saxophone
* Ada Rave           : tenor saxophone, clarinet
* Kaja Draksler      : piano

https://hearthquartet./
https://www.susanasantossilva.com/
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mette-rasmussen-mn0002645121
https://www.adarave.com/
https://www.kajadraksler.com/

Recorded by João Serigado at 16º Portalegre Jazz Festival
in the Centro de Artes do Espectáculo de Portalegre (CAEP),
Alentejo, Portugal, on May 3-5, 2019.

Reviews
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By Peter Margasak
https://thequietus.com/articles/30005-hamid-drake-milford-graves-jazz-review

This transcontinental quartet first played together at the 2016 October Meeting
at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam, and there was an obvious spark onstage as well as
in the audience — I was lucky enough to be there for it. Slovenian pianist Kaja
Draksler, Portuguese trumpeter Susana Santos Silva, Argentine reedist Ada Rave,
and Danish alto saxophonist Mette Rasmussen parlayed that curated appearance
into a working project and Hearth’s first recording, made over several days at
the Portalegre Jazz Festival in May of 2019 both in front of an audience and
without one, proves their instincts right. The six pieces combine free
improvisation and loose structural ideas introduced by individual
members. Cumulatively they a achieve a bracing blend of spontaneity and
compositional logic, with the braiding of in-and-out-of sync long tones on the
piece 'Tidal Phase' producing an eerie hypnosis, with Draksler employing an
e-bow to match the sustain of her partners. Other pieces embrace more
interactive phrasing, whether it’s the collision of unpitched breaths on 'At
Daybreak' — which features one of the members speaking the phrase, “Silence,
too much talking,” critiquing a common enough problem in garrulous free jazz —
or the episodic exchanges that fuel the peripatetic journey in 'Diving Bells'.

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By Stuart Broomer
https://www.freejazzblog.org/2021/07/two-different-very-different-bands-that.html

By Phil Freeman
https://burningambulance.com/2021/04/27/hearth/

By Filipe Freitas
https://jazztrail.net/blog/hearth-melt-album-review

Patrick Španko (sk)
https://www.skjazz.sk/news/showNew/nadnarodna-improvizovana-hudba

Jan Granlie (dk)
https://salt-peanuts.eu/record/hearth/

Por Fabricio Vieira (pt)
https://www.freeformfreejazz.org/2021/06/play-it-again-quartetos.html

Por João Santos (pt)
https://cuicadodecafonica..com/2019/04/agenda-16-festival-internacional-de.html

Par Matthieu Jouan (fr)
https://cleanfeed-records.com/citizen-jazz-hearth-melt/