1 September 2024, Kurt Gottschalk, THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD
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Brighde Chaimbeul also played a memorable duet with pianist-composer Heiner Goebbels, who fashioned an interesting mix of sounds from inside the piano and lyrical keyboarding with, it seemed, a debt to Chopin. Goebbels also played a duet with the Palestinian electronic artist Muqata’a, a sort of concerto for piano and sampler, as Muqata’a laid down a thick wash of rolling white noise that could have been an orchestra. Goebbels’ classicisms came through again, even if he often interrupted himself with plucking and preparations.
As they submerged deeper, everything became plasticine: field recordings, grinding reverberations and test tones.