Track of the day and new in the 1 Love spot is 'Chosen Spindle' by the great US double bassist the improviser Barre Phillips (Aquarian Rain) in duo again on a luminous recording with composer, electronicist, synthist György Kürtág Jr - who is the son of the hugely distinguished avant-garde Hungarian ''classical'' composer György Kürtág ('Splinters,' 'pas à pas – nulle part… (poems by Beckett)' to name a sprinkling of the latter's greatest work). 'Chosen Spindle,' is drawn from August's Face à Face. The piece has a serene wash in the execution, a quasi spectral underlay from Kürtág that develops a post-Palle Mikkelborg (that is way on from Aura) sense of colour that Phillips paints over moving from the precise to the relatively desultory in his narrative. Barry Guy, Dave Holland, Ligeti fans may well form a long queue to find alone time and space to really hear this conversational gem. Barre Phillips photo: Sam Harfouche/ECM
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