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The Greater Part of the Whole

by Klaus Bru and Phelan Burgoyne

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The First Slice 01:32
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2.
The Second Wedge 03:49
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3.
The Third Portion 04:49
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4.
The Fourth Bit 02:37
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5.
The Fifth Fraction 04:53
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The Sixth Sliver 03:03
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The Seventh Helping 04:13
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The Eighth Slab 05:55
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The Ninth Cut 02:16
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The Tenth Lump 02:00
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Describing music with words, isn’t that like imprisoning clouds?

Take two things, put them together, let them react, and see what happens: is the result greater than just the added amount of the two parts? Or, take this case: Do two people together make better music than when they each play by themselves? The question was rhetorical, but the answer is a resounding yes!

A saxophone and drums duo!

It’s not that sax and drums duos have no history. But unlike the sheer energy of John Coltrane's and Elvin Jones’s unmatched flights, Bru and Burgoyne often take a lyrical stance, emphasise sonic impressionism, and are at any point of their improvisations concerned with the greater part of the whole.

More rhetorical questions here: What if no other instrument is padding the space between the wood of the drum shells and the brass body of the sax? Is there anybody to measure and compare the vibrations of the reed and the alloy of the cymbals? But do you really miss a bass, a piano, a guitar, a what-not? How big is that space? What lies there? A world or a trifle, silence or a storm?

Burgoyne plays his characteristic, wide-open style of drumming, leaving plenty of space for ideas to develop and blossom, and Bru sends his C-Melody sax through effects that could have been pilfered from a lab for experimental guitar playing. The music spans Eastern European Folk music influenced explorations, soundscapes that move like clouds, and abstract musical narratives. It’s a journey, a trip, an odyssey through a sound world of its own.

Phelan Burgoyne and Klaus Bru first met late on a Sunday night at the Vortex jam session in London in 2015. When they got to play together, they realised they had much more in common than the shared feeling of awkwardness in an environment of mainstream jazz and musical testosterone. Since then, they have kept up a musical friendship which has extended to a number of great musicians, among them Rob Luft, Olie Brice, Huw Williams, Tim Fairhall. This concert marks their first release.

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released June 5, 2023

Klaus Bru - C Melody Saxophone, Pedals
Phelan Burgoyne - Drums

Produced by Klaus Bru and Phelan Burgoyne
Recorded March 22 and 23, 2019 at Burgoyne’s, Suffolk
All music composed by Klaus Bru and Phelan Burgoyne
Mixed and Edited by Klaus Bru
Cover Photo by Phelan Burgoyne
Mastered by Jeff Ardron / St. Austral Sound

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