Abdou – Gouband – Warelis Released New Album “Hammer, Roll And Leaf”

Saxophonist Sakina Abdou follows up her first solo album with this trio release, which  has all the freshness of a very first encounter. Hammer, Roll and Leaf is the fruit of an improvised, closed session of several days in her home, punctuated by two concerts, and offers an arc of 60 minutes that retraces a musical itinerary that is intimate and acoustic.

The album is being released today, November 29, 2024 through Relative Pitch Records. 

We have previously heard Toma Gouband with Evan Parker and the pianist Marta Warelis with Dave Douglas and Andy Moor. Sakina Abdou first played with Gouband in Will Guthrie’s gamelan ensemble Nist-Nah, and Warelis in the frenetic Amsterdam improvisational collective Doek.

With this archetypal line-up and a singular history, this wide variation already gives us a taste of the vast, mysterious and unimagined musical territory they will explore together, as well as the wide range of influences and possible references that can be generated at any moment in a space that pushes this many boundaries…