Album Review: Self-Titled Release from Ayna Veer
Album: Ayna Veer Artist: Ayna Veer Label: Self-Release Website: https://aynaveer.com https://aynaveer.bandcamp.com Ayna Veer's self-titled recording layers ambient passages with improvised jaunts tailored by alto saxophonist Vernau Mier and pianist Aydin Esen. Supporting Mier's and Esen's spontaneous flights is drummer Eric Valle and double bass player Nadav Erlich. Reflective moments are interspersed with soaring verses rife with heady frenzies and fomenting whirlwinds. The recording is a pleasing cruise that fuses ambient soundscapes and jazz idioms. The natural fluidity of the melodic passages creasing "Secret Wallflower" lays the groundwork for Mier's swathe of improvised expressions on the saxophone. The agile doodles performed by Nadav Erlich on bass along "Improvisation #2" give the track an avant garde skew, moving into pioneering terrain through "Trip to H" with Eisen's nimble move...