• DIGIPACK EDITION

The tenor of Ivo Perelman often sounds best in a more unusual setting – and that's definitely the case here, as he works in a trio with Gordon Grdina on oud and Hamin Honarai on tombak, daf, and percussion! The set definitely has some of the Mid East currents you'd expect from the instruments – but this is less of a "jazz meets world" setting, than it is a record that has Honari and Grdina improvising in free jazz modes on instruments with much different roots! If anything, the angular notes of Perelman might well be some of the most conventional sounds on the record – and if you know Ivo, you know that he's hardly anything but conventional.

PERSONNEL:

• Ivo Perelman - tenor sax
• Gordon Grdina - oud
• Hamin Honari - tombak, daf, percussion

Recorded in New York, January 2020

TRACKS:

• 01. The Purity of Desire
• 02. Bridge to the Soul
• 03. Love is a Stranger
• 04. This Longing
• 05. A Garden Beyond Paradise
• 06. Music of a Distant Drum
• 07. The Joy that Wounds
• 08. Light upon Light