De Beren Gieren feat. Susana Santos Silva

CD Club, 4 July 2014

Friday’s last concert, an appearance by the Belgian-Portuguese combo De Beren Gieren feat. Susana Santos Silva, was held at the CD Club. While the trumpeter, Santos Silva, visited the Ljubljana Festival on two previous occasions, we haven’t yet had the pleasure of hosting the critically highly acclaimed Belgian trio that has been working with Susana for the past two years. The critics did not exaggerate in their praise.

Together with the trumpet player, who sports an elaborate and crystal-clear sound, De Beren Gieren Trio (The Laughing Bears in English) skilfully navigates between composition and improvisation, minimalism and “audibility threshold” as well as loud improvised bursts. The compositions tend to start off quite slowly, with barely perceptible, reiterated piano theme, which is subsequently taken up by the rest of the instrumentalists: the high-pitched trumpet by Susana Santos Silva, Lieven van Pee’s double bass and its supple, all-but dancy riffs, the drummer Simon Segers’s quick alternations of stroking and striking. The final compound exhibited intricate compositions, with musicians masterly exchanging themes as well as wittily and playfully lingering on the verge of several extremes, delivered in between intimate soliloquies and extroverted rapture.

Mario Batelić


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