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Horus and Seth

by Mathias Rissi

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ARTofTIME / Version 1990:
HORUS AND SETH (from the mythology of ancient Egypt):
The A-B-A-song-form is built around the central melody of the B part, a lucid line in E-flat-minor in a 5/4 metre. It sings the dawn of Horus and Rissi`s vital sound development on alto beautifully implores the God of saxophonists, reaching a splendid climax of the composition.
The surrounding two A parts are interpreted by very deep tenor keys, in a mysteriously slow tempo and in a extreme rubato. The starting part describes the incarnation of Seth and culminates into a devilish bass solo by Thomas Hirt, a masterpiece of coherent expression, indeed.
The second A part is a reprise of the first one and initiates the incineration of Seth. Like the first one, its melodic line lives in a D-flat-major-gypsy-scale and gives the impression that Seth is omnipresent, though invisible on the calm surface of sounds. Perfectly matching the dualistic principle of good and evil, this melody is a variation of the B-part-melody. This concluding A part enters in order to take over the energies of a sparkling dialogue between percussion, bass and piano, which, after the solistic development in the B part, is brought into life by drummer Pit Gutmann – a musician of extremely rich colours who performs as if everything were rhythm.
Guerino Mazzola, 1990

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released October 30, 2020

Q4 QUARTET / Version 1989:
Mathias Rissi - tenor-, alto saxophones
Peter Schmid - baritone-, soprano saxophones
Werner Broger - bass
Dani Schaffner - drums, percussion

Recorded march 6, 1989 Radio DRS, Zürich, Switzerland
Recording by Walter Hausegger, mastering by Peter Pfister
(originally issued on Unit Records UTR-4034)

ARTofTIME / Version 1990:
Mathias Rissi - tenor-, alto saxophones
Guerino Mazzola - piano
Tomi Hirt - bass
Pit Gutmann - drums, percussion

Recorded Oct. 17, 1990 Radio DRS, Zürich, Switzerland
Recording and mastering Peter Pfister
(originally issued on SYNTHESIS by Guerino Mazzola,STOA Music ST-71.1001)

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Mathias Rissi is a Swiss jazz musician whose focus is on contemporary jazz and free improvised music.

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