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Montreal-based pianist Marilyn Lerner isn't particularly well-known in free music though her pedigree calls upon such diverse settings and influences as klezmer and Cuban music. Arms Spread Wide places Lerner in a more traditional format, albeit free, with bassist Ken Filiano and drummer Lou Grassi. Lerner walks a fine line between volcanic density and extraordinary delicacy; the listener would be forgiven, on first blush, to hear her filling-rattling clusters and red-knuckle work in the upper register as an outgrowth of the Cecil Taylor- Irene Schweizer axis, with a little Dave Burrell thrown in. But underneath those volcanic runs and yo-yoing systems of mass is a sense of introspective calm, an easy-breathing swing that seeds a plenum of notes. The additional muscularity supplied by Filiano's furious bowing and Grassi's surging accents renders stasis impossible.

Lerner switches between shoving the music with bodily engagement and the nearly romantic, Erik Satie-like eddies that close out "Wild Analysis." Rubbed and bowed piano strings are the landscape for "Nightwings," disquieting glissandi and spindly pluck ricocheting off meaty bass thwack and muted gong rattle. "Hommage a Coco Schumann" is an elegy for a German Jewish guitarist who survived the Holocaust; Filiano and Grassi set up a loose, stone-skipping rhythm as Lerner places bouncy post-bop in continuous, eliding and oft-pointillistic motion. In the depths of piano and bass, a slight tug begins and develops into choppy three-way interplay and punchy melodicism. Arms Spread Wide presents a uniquely powerful trio, and a pianistic voice that hopefully will be heard from more frequently.

Clifford Allen

credits

released September 1, 2009

NBCD 5


All compositions by Marilyn Lerner (Socan), Ken Filiano (Flizmo Music BMI) and Lou Grassi (Elgee Publishing BMI)

Recorded 20th February 2008 at Acoustic Recording Studios, Brooklyn, NY by Michael Brorby

Mixed and Mastered April 10, 2008 at Park West Studios, Brooklyn, NY. Engineer - Jim Clouse
Design by Oskaras Anosovas


1. Wild Analysis 6:22
2. Nightwings 5:24
3. The Eternal Present 10:24
4. The Dance Within The Game 3:48
5. Skies Spin Round 9:36
6. Hommage a’ Coco Schulmann* 7:52
7. Samphire 6:31
8. World Of Shades 2:44
9. Arms Spread Wide 9:34
10. Skitterbug 2:16


Marilyn Lerner - piano
Ken Filiano - bass
Lou Grassi - drums, percussion

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