Lotte Anker / Rodrigo Pinheiro / Hernâni Faustino
Birthmark
2013 - Clean Feed: CF267 
http://www.cleanfeed-records.com/disco2.asp?intID=419

* Lotte Anker: soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
* Rodrigo Pinheiro: piano
* Hernâni Faustino: double bass
 
http://www.lotteanker.com/ 
http://www.rodrigo-pinheiro.com/ 
http://www.hernanifaustino.com/ 
http://www.redtrio.info/

Recorded on September 16th, 2012 at Namouch Studio, Lisbon, by Joaquim Monte.

Liner Notes by Stef Gijssels. 
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2013/05/lotte-anker-rodrigo-pinheiro-hernani.html

Reviews
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By Mark Corroto 
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=44683

After releasing a trio of stellar recordings with pianist Craig Taborn, and
drummer Gerald Cleaver, the last being Floating Islands (ILK, 2009), Danish
saxophonist Lotte Anker returns with a new trio. She teams up with the
Portuguese players Rodrigo Pinhero (piano) and Hernâni Faustino (double bass),
best known as members of RED Trio with drummer Gabriel Ferrandini.

Like her American trio, this encounter is marked as an interactive
improvisational session. A very cooperative session. Much, no, all of the music
making is focused on replying to the other musician and maintaining the
aggregate. A difficult task when the music is often hushed, doled out in
whispers and quiet passages. The opener "Rise" is marked as a barren journey,
slowly paced with notes applied always reciprocating and countering
another. The music intentionally advances leaderless but tugged one direction
then another in a sort of, not call-and-response, but more like
response-and-response. "Upper Bound" quickens the pace with a lightning round
of flashed notes, the intensity peaks with a hammering plateau of sound, and
then a joyous run of notes.

Anker's command of her instruments (soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones) is
exceptional. She has the full complement of sounds from overblowing to growls
and at times, ineffable beauty. The attraction here though is the
interaction. The longest piece at nearly 14 minutes, "Golden Spiral" begins as
an instrument tuning—bowed bass, upper register saxophone and the insides of
piano. The piece advances, gaining energy very much like a classic Evan
Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton improvisation, capturing momentum and
intensity. This trio succeeds on multiple levels.

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By Phil Zampino 
http://www.squidsear.com/cgi-bin/news/newsView.cgi?newsID=1553

By Grego Applegate Edwards

Par Luc Bouquet (fr) 
http://grisli.canalblog.com/archives/2013/06/18/27457640.html

Por Pachi Tapiz (es) 
http://www.tomajazz.com/web/?p=8899