Co Streiff, Irène Schweizer - Twin Lines (2012)
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Free jazz, Avant-garde | Label: Intakt Records - Intakt CD 07
Although Irène Schweizer has evolved (grown? graduated?) from her days as a radical free improviser where intensity was her forte, if not her mission, she is still largely identified and best known for her work as a powerful, creatively forceful soloist, a part of her persona that she returns to now and then. This duo recording features her softer side as part of a duo led by fellow Swiss saxophonist and longtime collaborator Co Streiff, who wrote most of the pieces. Streiff's attractively simple melodies set the framework for her appealingly mellifluous sounds on sax, while a subdued Schweizer is the near-perfect accompanist.