# CD review: Jonas Cambien Trio – Nature Hath Painted the Body 2021: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2021/04/28/cd-review-jonas-cambien-trio-nature-hath-painted-the-body-2021-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2021-04-28T17:38:22+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Belgian-born, Oslo-based pianist Jonas Cambien couldn’t have chosen better partners
than Andreas Wildhagen and André Roligheten to perform his cleverly constructed 
compositions. On its third studio album, his trio shows itself as a tightly interacting
ensemble, with a free and playful approach. **

Cambiens compositions often start with simple ideas, never saying too much or too
little, paving the way for collective improvisations that can go from explosive 
and wild to intricate and dreamy. In that way, the music displays a wide range of
moods and types of energy. From the joyful, Ornette-reminiscent ‘1 000 000 Happy
Locusts’, to the introspective, repetitive ‘Bushfire’, to the contemporary sounds
on ‘Freeze’ that lead up to the stubborn ostinato on ‘Yoyo Helmut’. Throughout the
album, the trio is using a variety of sounds and techniques that make the music 
sound fresh all the way, and full of surprises. Like the prepared piano in dialogue
with Wildhagens imaginative percussion on ‘The Origins of Tool Use’, the animal-
like sounds evoked by Rolighetens bass clarinet on ‘Herrieschoppers’, or the organ
on the beautiful, deconstructed ballad Helium. On one track, there is no piano at
all, but instead a short soprano sax duet played by Roligheten and Cambien, that
serves as an intro to the irresistible, trance-like rhythms on ‘Mantis’.

**Tracks**
 1. Oersoep 0:33 2. 1 000 000 Happy Locusts 5:24 3. Herrieschoppers 3:
31 4. Hypnos 1:50 5. Mantis 3:29 6. The Origins of Tool Use 4:58 7. Bushfire 4:34
8. Freeze 7:39 9. Yoyo Helmut 2:51 10. Tongues 1:22 11. Helium 4:05

**Jonas Cambien – piano, soprano sax (4), organ (6, 11)**
 **André Roligheten – 
soprano, tenor sax, bass clarinet** **Andreas Wildhagen – drums**

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