Jazz pianist Borah Bergman debuted with
Discovery (1975):
Perpetual Springs 18:04
Horse Opera 9:49
The Third Hand (First Improvisation For Left Hand Alone) 9:56
Bursts Of Joy
(Chiaroscuro, 1977):
Bursts Of Joy Or Circles, Whirl & 8 18:04
River Shadows 5:20
Oranges 7:28
Horizons 9:21
Live at Tortona (2009)
Spirit Song 10:52
When Autumn Comes 6:44
Wellspring 5:51
Crescent 3:20
The Mighty Oak 16:37
From the liner notes:
The five pieces on this recording highlight Bergman's amazing ability to have each hand go its own way. Instead of accompaniment and melody, what one hears are often two completely different melodic lines being played simultaneously. Stefano Pastorđs style of playing the violin is strongly based on an imaginative reworking of bop wind instrumentsđ language. A great deal of experimentation led him to re-consider the set-up of his instrument. Pastor has re-strung his violin with extremely rigid electric guitar strings to obtain a heavy sound, allowing his violin and the way he plays it to speak like a wind instrument with breath and power.
The resulting music is sometimes rasping, sometimes lyrical, a not rarely prodigious dialogue between the piano and the violin, with Bergmanđs hands running about on the keyboard producing cascades of notes, each with an exact, determined precision with its own very limpid specific weight. Pastor plays the game wonderfully, intervening with his violin with its sanded, gravelly, very earthy sound. This CD was recorded on July 1st, 2007 at the Jazz Fuori Tema Festival in Tortona, Italy.
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