Reconfigurations

by Rajesh Mehta

Overview

Trumpeter Rajesh Mehta leads his six-piece Mehta-Metric Ensemble through his three-part "Reconfigurations Suite." Mehta composed what he calls skeletal architecture based on the relationship between mathematics and music, with his talented set of players filling in the details. There is a certain minimalism to much of it, an almost static quality that sometimes is effective, but sometimes is not. Mehta focuses the sextet on abstract sound, absent melody. Using a somewhat unconventional lineup (trumpet, clarinet, percussion, string bass, and viola, supplemented by all sorts of secondary instruments), the results alternate between the post-bop improvisations of Vlatko Kucan¡'s reeds and Mehta's puffs of air. There is a meandering quality that is part of the landscape, giving the whole a surprising elasticity. Mehta seems to enjoy the confusion and the open spaces, which the strings fill with buzzing sanguinity. ~ Steven Loewy

Product Details

Release Date:	12/12/2000
Label:	Between The Lines
UPC:	0718751018020
Rank:	219730

Tracks

1. Reconfigurations, Pt. 1
2. Reconfigurations, Pt. 2
3. Reconfigurations, Pt. 3

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Rajesh Mehta   Primary Artist,Trumpet (Bass),Slide Trumpet,Trumpet
Peter Niklas Wilson   Double Bass,Bass
Ray Kaczynski   Percussion
Vlatko Kucan   Sax (Soprano),Clarinet (Bass),Sax (Tenor),Melodica,Clarinet
Aleksander Kolkowski   Violin,Viola

Technical Credits

Fuhrer Vienna   Graphic Design
Jutta Obenhuber   Cover Art
Ulrich Maiss   Assistant Engineer
Vlatko Kucan   Mastering,Mixing
Rajesh Mehta   Liner Notes,Composer
Franz Koglmann   Art Direction