They say that icebergs aren't what they seem, that only little bits of them actually peak out over the ocean's surface. Well, then that's pretty much how the Jim Black (drums), Mat Maneri (violin) and Assif Tsahar (tenor sax) show at Tonic on December 28th went. Their music created a rocking sea of syncopation and dissonance out from which surprisingly concise motives peaked. The show was a great exercise in implication.
Black played with wit, tapping through rhythms that stopped and started, urging on Maneri and Tsahar and then darting away. At times, he'd hint at meters so deep in the pocket that even the more timid of Tonic's audience members would start to nod their heads (and at the same time at that!), but he never let them sink in. Maneri did, though, taking Black's cues and forcing out patterns that tugged on the rhythm and slyly slid into surprising resolutions. Then the three would simultaneously find a new sound, spontaneous composition at its best, Tsahar meeting up with Maneri and the two trading beats of harmonic dissonance.
The trio let motives develop out of each new sound, but no sooner would they find them then Maneri or Tsahar would jump out with careening lines that never looked back. With an imperceptible nod, the solos would slow down and find themselves joined by an increasing cacophony from the other two. Black's cacophony, in particular, stood out, as he impatiently switched from drumsticks to mallets, even to fingernails. And just when it seemed he was letting the rhythm run out of control, he'd play a beat or two to show just how in control he'd been the whole time. Even when he dropped a stick or a mallet he'd been using back into its, he let it fall in rhythm, and for a moment it would accompany him as it rattled back into place.
In keeping with the surprising development of each improvisation, the songs would find themselves ending with a surprising ease. Applause rang out, and then, before there was even time to let out an awed "hmm...," the musicians were at it again.
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