"Young Danish composer-sound artist-drummer Jacob Ridderberg composed the post-minimalist «Rituals» for a group of saxophones, between six and fifty saxophones, all played by the same player, Maria Dybbroe ... Ridderberg's unorthodox yet highly nuanced and multilayered approach shed new insights about the associated timbres of the saxophone family, as Dybbroe plays soprano, alto and baritone saxophones. The eight disciplined pieces draw inspiration from European chamber, classical music, the American minimalism of Phillip Glass and Steve Reich and the cyclical, rhythmic patterns of West African music. Each piece explores a distinct musical idea, technique or form as a way to construct a rich yet cohesive narrative and complex architecture of sounds, focused on multiplication of a single acoustic source ... The last "Frequency" succeeds to embrace all of Ridderberg's compositional strategies into an energetic, percussive and highly playful and somehow ritualistic Reich-ian drone. Wisely conceived, arranged and edited. Beautifully performed".
