dÜT - universal Dance music

MNM017

DÜT offers a perspective on creative music-making that stems from a deep concern for contribution. Each of its three members has a highly developed instrumental ability that is put to work in the service of a collective art. Composition is in the service of exploration which,
through individual interpretation, functions as a catalyst for collectivity; collectivity that is not about homogeneity but rather, spiritual unity; spiritual unity in which the individual remains just that, doing so without compositional predetermination being imposed as a role to be played. Humility here is the key to communal vision.

These musicians are a rare breed. They delight in a creative process which, while giving vent to their exquisite musicianship, doesn’t carry the baggage of profile. There is nothing slick about this music. It’s honest and heart-felt without being heart-on-the-sleeve indulgent. It neither promotes pathos nor political dissatisfaction. Nor does it provide an excuse for better-world pontification. Yet it seems to me that a better world is bound to develop from this humble music-making. Surely, if ‘art’ is to be taken seriously then its primary responsibility is to inspire feeling and thought that is essentially humanitarian. According to my receptive devices DÜT is doing just that. There are no ulterior motives.

Each of the pieces rendered here delves into a sound-world that is compositionally envisaged. Yet each piece is open to each performer’s take on what that particular world might be. That openness is, in fact, intrinsic to the compositional concept. Give this ‘openness to be’ any name you like. But, whatever its name, it doesn’t stipulate what something should be but rather, what it can be. It’s not so much about composition according to the (sovereign) composer but rather, composition we make. Brodie McAllister’s predominant compositional characteristic and his exceptional musical insights are planted firmly in the rich soil of humility and it is from those roots that the immense harvest of this modest music will be reaped. We, the recipients of this offering, are the wealthy ones in our reception of it. This music leaves us in a position to draw from it what we will as a result of being who it is that we are. This is a gift.

Brodie McAllister Tristan Rogers and Andrew Saragossi bring to this music their own evolving compositional character, giving it without reservation, as collective aspiration. These are remarkable musicians, not just because their musicality is remarkable but, over and above the abundance of that is their personhood, their sincerity, their modesty, their innate truth-telling, and their preparedness to place themselves as musicians in the collective process; a process which makes this music a carrier of beneficence.

The music of DÜT bears the impulse of social embrace. Listen to it. Receive it into your heart. Feel its creative ebullience. I have felt this and thankfully been inspired. DÜT’s music is Universal in its boundlessness, it has Dance in its spirit, and is Music in its nature of accord.

© Phil Treloar, 2021

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released June 21, 2021

Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Marly Lüske in Alchemix Recording Studios.
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DÜT:
Woodwinds: Andrew Saragossi
Trumpet: Tristan Rogers
Trombone: Brodie McAllister
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Compositions by Brodie McAllister
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Cover and Design by Brodie and Catalynne McAllister
Masks by Catalynne McAllister
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Recorded on October 28th 2020
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DÜT and MADE NOW MUSIC acknowledges that this music was formed on the traditional lands of Turrbal and Jagera nations.
We extend our respects to their ancestors and elders past and present and emerging.