Review of Keir GoGwilt's 'The Zarabanda Variations'

The Zarabanda Variations review – free jazz project is a thrillingly original dive into colonial history

(Carrier) US composer Keir GoGwilt’s collaborative album uses poetry and atonal music to trace the roots of Spain’s sarabande dance: a fascinating listen, though not easy Classical music aficionados will be familiar with the stately form of the sarabande – a Spanish dance adopted into a languorous and tender musical style favoured by baroque composers such as Bach and Handel. For American composer Keir GoGwilt, however, the sarabande contains something far more radical. On his collaborative p...

By Ammar Kalia