Vassilis Tsabropoulos & Anja Lechner: "Melos" offers polychromatic music on ECM

Greek composer Vassilis Tsabropoulos is back with a new collaborational album featuring Cellist and co-founder of the renowned Rosamunde Quartet Anja Lechtner. Again published on his favourite label ECM, „Melos“ features 15 relatively concise pieces in between Chamber Music, Jazz and Contemporary Composition. As on their previous encounter „Chants, Hymns and Dances“, the duo is searching for intersections between different polarities: The East and the West, Improvisation and fixed forms, emotional expressivity and intellectual discourse. The word „Melos“ contains an open reference to the specific, hard-to-define characteristics of the human voice and Tsabropoulos has consequently defined the music on the album as „polychromatic“. While this term, on the one hand, incorporates and encompasses the many different timbral possibilities he and Lechner are researching on their encounter, it also alludes to the difficulty of finding definite descriptive links between a particular kind of artistic gestures and the appurtenant perceptive reaction.