Hans-Peter Pfammatter

Laura Schuler Quartet- Sueños Paralelos

Almost everything about Sueños Paralelos sounds wrong.  Drummer Lionel Friedli could be auditioning for a rock band.  Hans-Peter Pfammatter’s synthesizer belongs in an avant-prog ensemble.  The storied saxophonist Tony Malaby and Swiss violinist Laura Schuler get tangled up like competitive kite fighters.  The quartet’s rude, unpolished anti-jazz is a combative rebuttal to the codified, calcified realm of mainstream improvised music.