A Drum Thing by Tony Overwater

Tony Overwater | Atzko Kohashi

A Drum Thing

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Format: CD
Label: Jazz in Motion
UPC: 0608917472622
Catnr: JIM 74726
Release date: 19 May 2023
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Label
Jazz in Motion

UPC
0608917472622

Catalogue number
JIM 74726

Release date
19 May 2023

"... the duo also interweaves John Coltrane's "The Drum Thing" - dedicated to Elvin Jones - in brilliant piano excursions with powerful bass structures in which shifting rhythmic and melodic events communicate with each other."

Stereo, 12-6-2023

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About the album

After their first successful duo album Crescent where pianist Atzko Kohashi and bassist Tony Overwater celebrated the John Coltrane album Crescent, they now recorded a new album in celebration of drummers. They selected 8 compositions by drummers and added three songs dedicated to drummers. The drummer as a composer is a somewhat overlooked quality and by playing their compositions without drums it puts the spotlight on the compositional quality of the drummers. Compositions by Paul Motian, Sunny Murray, Jack DeJohnette and Al Foster are the core of this album. The composition The Drum Thing by John Coltrane was one of the few songs the duo didn’t record on their album crescent and it forms a bridge between the two albums. Composition by Tony Overwater and Charlie Haden complete the album ‘A Drum Thing'.

The album was recored at the beautiful radio studios of MCO in Hilversum by the some sound technician Frans de Rond. His superb recording techniques caught all the details of the delicate music played by Atzko Kohashi and Tony Overwater.

Nach ihrem ersten erfolgreichen Duo-Album Crescent, auf dem der Pianist Atzko Kohashi und der Bassist Tony Overwater das John-Coltrane-Album Crescent feierten, haben sie nun ein neues Album zu Ehren der Drummer aufgenommen. Sie wählten 8 Kompositionen von Schlagzeugern aus und fügten drei den Schlagzeugern gewidmete Songs hinzu. Der Schlagzeuger als Komponist ist eine etwas übersehene Eigenschaft, und indem sie ihre Kompositionen ohne Schlagzeug spielen, rücken sie die kompositorische Qualität der Schlagzeuger in den Vordergrund. Kompositionen von Paul Motian, Sunny Murray, Jack DeJohnette und Al Foster bilden den Kern dieses Albums. Die Komposition The Drum Thing von John Coltrane war einer der wenigen Songs, die das Duo nicht auf seinem Album crescent aufgenommen hat und bildet eine Brücke zwischen den beiden Alben. Kompositionen von Tony Overwater und Charlie Haden runden das Album 'A Drum Thing' ab.

Das Album wurde in den wunderschönen Radiostudios von MCO in Hilversum von dem Tontechniker Frans de Rond aufgenommen. Seine hervorragende Aufnahmetechnik fing alle Details der delikaten Musik von Atzko Kohashi und Tony Overwater ein.

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Tony Overwater (double bass)

Tony Overwater is an award winning bass player whose sound and unique way of playing have established him as a key player in the European music world. He is a remarkable solo performer and leader of his own projects but also a collaborative and attentive sideman. He is well known for his pioneering work in Arab music.
In 1995 Tony Overwater went on tour with the Yuri Honing Trio through the Middle East, notably Lebanon and Syria, and fell in love with Arab music culture. He met musicians from lebanon, Syria and Iraq and started a long time collaboration with the Lebanese singer Rima Khcheich.
He has been involved in Arab music ever since and developed a unique new playing style on the acoustic bass which allows him to play the microtonality of the Arab scales. He has been studying the maqams (scales), rhythms and songs of classical Arab music. He recorded several albums with Rima Khcheich and eventually became the musical director of her ensemble. Regularly Rima Khcheich and Tony Overwater play duo concerts in which they perform classical Arab music in muwashah style in which the acoustic bass replaces the Oud. This has never been done before and is highly successful at festivals around the world.
Tony Overwater played concerts with many arab musicians among which Moroccan ud player Said Chraibi, Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and Algerian violinist Kheiredinne M’Kachiche.
He started a salon of Arab music in the Netherlands, Salon Joussour, creating a bridge between musicians from the Middle East and Europe.
in 2009, together with pianist Rembrandt Frerichs and percussionist/drummer Vinsent Planjer, Tony Overwater formed the Rembrandt Frerichs Trio. Three musicians with strong interest and highly developed skills in Arab music and with roots in Western classical music and jazz united in the trio to play with different guest musicians from the Middle East.
Tony Overwater has created the music for many documentaries, among which the Berlin Award winning documentary Justice For Sergei and Om de Oude Wereldzee about Dutch politician Abraham Kuyper.

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Atzko Kohashi (piano)

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... the duo also interweaves John Coltrane's "The Drum Thing" - dedicated to Elvin Jones - in brilliant piano excursions with powerful bass structures in which shifting rhythmic and melodic events communicate with each other.
Stereo, 12-6-2023

... This album will not leave anyone indifferent, great music!
jazzfun, 02-6-2023

... The basic tone, apart from the drum solo of course, is fully hit by Kohashi and Overwater: calm, almost meditative.
Concerto, 01-8-2023

... Beautiful melodies, more freely shaped, swinging and drifting moods result in a varied palette of deep emotional expression full of beauty and clarity...
Musikansich, 22-7-2023

On their concept album, Japanese pianist Atzko Kohashi and Dutch bassist Tony Overwater also focus on the compositional talents of drummers...
Fono Forum, 10-7-2023

... Atzko Kohashi und Tony Overwater spielen brillant, sind kompromisslos in ihrem erzählerischen Aufbau und überzeugen durch ihre artikulatorischen und texturalen Konzepte...
jazzfun, 09-6-2023

... Together they can also swing wonderfully, the warm sound of the piano and the round tone of the double bass alone are great pleasure.
NaDann, 19-5-2023

... We remain in the particular universe of a classical contemporary jazz whose inspirations find an echo through this magnificent duo
Radio Rec, 28-3-2023