Henry Threadgill - Listen Ship - VINYL LP

From the mountains of Madrid comes Antinoë, the haunting one-woman project of pianist and vocalist TeresaMarraco. With her ethereal voice and stark, piano-driven arrangements, Antinoë shapes soundscapes whereneoclassical elegance collides with the atmospheric weight of metal, weaving music that is at once fragile,immersive, and profoundly melancholic. Fans of artists like Agnes Obel or Enya will find resonance here, yetAntinoë's world is darker, steeped in reflection, loss, and yearning.Since it's inception in 2021, Antinoë has embraced a uniquely personal approach to darkness, building her songsaround intimate piano compositions intertwined with her rich, resonant voice. Marraco's background in extrememusic further anchors her vision she has collaborated with acts such as Coldborn, Elffor, Balmog, and Empty,and recorded the piano/keyboard parts for Dimmu Borgir's live performance of Det Nye Riket at Beyond theGates Festival. Her 2023 debut, InchWhispers from the Dark PastInch, an acoustic reinterpretation of 90s Norwegianblack metal classics, garnered critical attention and cemented her distinctive identity on the border between metaland neoclassical expression.Now, Antinoë unveils her first full-length album of original material InchThe FoldInch. A conceptual journey thatnavigates the acceptance of death, tracing the process of Inchfolding inward,Inch to confront different stages of grief,one by one, inviting us to walk a deeply personal path that nonetheless exposes universal themes such asexistentialism and the embracing of chaos as a necessary part of oneself. With InchThe FoldInch, Antinoë transcendsgenre boundaries to deliver music that is delicate, symphonic, and unflinchingly dark, an invitation to step intoshadows and discover their hidden beauty.

Cut You Where You Was marks the return of saxophonist, flutist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Threadgill's flagship band Zooid. It's their first since 2021's Poof, which Downbeat asserted Inchvisits strange territories, upsets our sense of scale and value but delivers whole new musical worlds.Inch It also marks the 25th anniversary of their first album Up Popped the Two Lips, the inaugural by Pi Recordings, which was first founded with the inspiration to document new releases from Threadgill. Their new album exhibits the continued growth of Zooid's unique sound. Featuring original members Liberty Ellman on guitar, Jose Davila on trombone and tuba, Elliot Humberto Kavee on drums, and cellist Christopher Hoffman, who has been a member for over a decade and a half, the band exhibits a sense of ease with Threadgill's knotty compositional sense, achieving their signature quality with less strict adherence to the distinctive interval-based compositional system that won Threadgill a Pulitzer Prize for his landmark work In for a Penny, In for a Pound. The album comprises a number of brief pieces that are inspired by Threadgill's fascination with early recording technologies Their short recording durations force each musician to make their statements quickly rather than through protracted development. This limitation helps open new possibilities for musical expression, making Cut You Where You Was another tour-de-force from one of the most important artists of last half-century.

To celebrate saxophonist/flutist Henry Threadgill's career retrospective at the 2024 Big Ears Festival, Pi Recordings is proud to both Volumes I & II of This Brings Us To together in a limited-edition double vinyl set. Featuring his long-running band, Zooid, the two volumes were originally released in 2009 and 2010 even though the music was all recorded at a single session. They were his first releases in eight years, longer than any hiatus in his career, a time that allowed for the gestation of what was to become Threadgill's signature intervallic system of composition and group improvisation that ultimately won him a Pulitzer Prize for his work In for a Penny, In for a Pound. The original albums were voted the #2 and #5 best releases of the year by The Village Voice Jazz Critics' Poll, about which NPR said InchThe jazz world is coming to realize that Threadgill is a true idiosyncratic great... This Brings Us To staggers and lurches and creates dissonances, and it still brings the mad-scientist funk.Inch Remastered for vinyl by Threadgill's long-time guitarist and producer Liberty Ellman and housed in a gatefold sleeve with archival photos of the band, the focuses attention on an important turning point in the career of one of music's great iconoclastic masters.