Inside Voice / Outside Voice

Atmospheric moments with voice, guitar and double bass. The New York bassist Michael Bisio is particularly known for his long-standing musical partnership with Matthew Shipp and Joe McPhee. But he has also achieved a lot as a leader since the 1990s. The fairly younger Timothy Hill is a colleague of the well-known overtone singer David Hykes. In his improvised singing he fuses different styles with a natural voice: Tibetan, Indian, folk, jazz, modern classical, world music and free improvisation. Open to everything, he improvised with a large number of musicians with different orientations. The intimate duo recordings with Bisio and Hill were recorded spontaneously with the idea of ​​a country where people communicate in a stylistically polyglot manner using only music. The nine tracks sometimes flow seamlessly into one another. The three themes by Coltrane, Ornette Coleman and Henry Grimes are treated very loosely and fragmentarily. The three songs form a contrast because Hill sings the lyrics. But accompanied by his suggestive guitar playing, he otherwise sings "instrumentally" - sometimes in chest voice or falsetto. Strong and vocal, Bisio pulls out all the stops on the double bass, plucked, bowed and with harmonics and other effects. A self-contained event that should be heard in one go. 4/5 - "DEFINITELY LISTEN" (Translated from German)