Ingrid Laubrock - Monochromes - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Since 2017, the two virtuoso improvisers and unmistakable stylists Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey have been celebrating music as a duo. A classic duo that releases energy, pulsating vividly while simultaneously withdrawing into intimacy. A celebration of successful interplay, burning for the moment. Brink is a fascinating example of jazz as the art of dialogue. In a profound and telepathic way, Laubrock and Rainey understand each other and speak to each other through the music. InchWe listeners will often find ourselves breathing as Ingrid and Tom breathe, as they cherish space along with vivid instrumental ideasInch, writes Nels Cline in the liner notes and adds InchThe duo of Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey has been it's own beautiful story as this golden couple has coalesced to create music that, while evincing the natural breaths of humble human existence, also possesses magic.Inch - Ingrid Laubrock Soprano and Tenor Saxophones & Tom Rainey Drums Album Tracks 1. Flock of Conclusions 2. Brink I 3. Coaxing 4. Brink II 5. Liquified Columns 6. Brink III 7. A Peculiar Logic 8. Brink IV 9. Scrunch Repercussions 10. Brink V 11. Arrival of Never 12. Brink VI 13. Said, Been Said

Album Tracks 1. Slowfish Glowfish 2. Flowery Prison Cell 3. Messy Minimum 4. Quick Draw 5. Funhouse Glockwork 6. Tex & Clementine 7. Anti-House 8. Is Life Anything Like This 9. Big Bang 10. Big Crunch 11. Betterboon 12. Tom Can't Sleep 13. Oh Yes 14. Mona Lisa Trampoline

Ingrid Laubrock's credentials as an ambitious, skillful composer of intricate yet visceral works for small ensembles is well established - not least on the evidence of her excellent, much-admired Intakt recordings. Whether writing for conventionally constituted assemblages like her quintet Anti-House, or for a more unusual complement, like the mix of tuba, koto, electronics, and more that she convened two years ago for Serpentines, Laubrock has demonstrated a formidable capacity for writing music of intricacy, integrity, and broad appeal. The critic Steve Smith writes in the liner notes InchThe present recording, recorded in a studio by an ensemble of first-call freelancers led by two ideally sympathetic conductors, Eric Wubbels and Taylor Ho Bynum, provides eloquent evidence of what Laubrock has achieved. Both of her orchestral pieces - Vogelfrei, with it's variegated textures, animated rhythms, swooping vocals, and inexorable momentum; and Contemporary Chaos Practices, where four instantly distinguishable soloists (Mary Halvorson, Davis, Wooley, and Laubrock herself) retain their individuality while negotiating a brilliantly rendered aural landscape - serve notice of an estimable composer who has something to say, and knows exactly how to say it.Inch Album Tracks 1. Contemporary Chaos Practices 2. Vogelfrei