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A truly integrated trio, Presencia’s nine group-composed tracks highlight the interactive skills of Berlin-based young veteran improvisers: Argentinean tenor saxophonist Camila Nebbia, UK bassist James Banner and German drummer Max Andrzejewski. They combine without artifice in perfectly timed sequences that move from dissonant to delicate. Although Nebbia’s reed textures are most upfront with tropes ranging from honking wallows to thinning whistles and note bending smears, Andrzejewski’s paradiddles, ruffs and cymbal splashes constantly expand the tracks’… Read More