Wrack: Intents & Purposes

Avant Jazz / Free Improvisation / Avant-Garde
premiera polska: 2011-01-05
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opakowanie: plastikowe etui
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Editor's info:
Intents & Purposes documents Bruckmann's first visit to the Chicago scene since leaving for the Bay Area in 2003, as well as Wrack's chamber-group-meets-creative-improvisation sound, which bridges the gap between modern classical music and Chicago's experimental jazz scene.

"As an oboist," writes Bruckmann in the liner notes, "I have little choice but to approach jazz tangentially, cautiously sidling up alongside it. Whether or not Wrack 'sounds like' jazz is immaterial, I'm only concerned that it behaves like jazz. The notation often deliberately eludes perfectibility, in an attempt to embrace the 'mistake' and circumvent the paralysis always threatening classical performance practice. The processes employed attempt to drag all the players into the action as engaged creative partners, with equitable distribution of cuing responsibilities and improvising space."

"Kyle Bruckmann's discography paints a picture of a modern day renaissance musician," wrote Dusted's Adam Strohm. For the past decade, the double-reed player/composer has embraced musical endeavors ranging from classical to electronic to experimental rock to free improvisation, performing throughout the U.S. and Europe and appearing on more than 30 recordings. From 1996-2003, he worked in Chicago as a freelance orchestral musician while also collaborating extensively with members of the city's experimental music scene. Now based in San Francisco, Bruckmann performs regularly with orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout the Bay Area while working within a vibrant international community of improvisers and sound artists.

All About Jazz
Bruckmann effortlessly occupies the space between jazz and classical music, generating movements of somber reflection one minute, turbulent intensity the next. From Morton Feldman-esque minimalism to Charles Ives-like bluster, Wrack has few equals. . . Historically, attempts to combine classical music with jazz often tend toward the programmatic and cerebral. Bruckmann’s writing sounds wholly organic and natural. With Intents & Purposes, he delivers an album rich with tricky contrapuntal writing, bolstered by unusual arrangements and intricate interplay. Whether Wrack qualifies as free jazz, chamber jazz or some other hybrid is irrelevant: this is music made by artists unafraid of genre constraints.”
By Troy Collins

muzycy:
Kyle Bruckmann: oboe, English horn, suona
Tim Daisy: percussion
Anton Hatwich: bass
Jen Clare Paulson: viola
Jason Stein: bass clarinet

utwory:
1. The System Cannot Withstand Close Scrutiny
2. Slippery Disciplines
3. Inasmuch As
4. Intents & Purposes
5. Hot Bother
6. Despite All Evidence to the Contrary
7. Further Ado

wydano: 30 Oct 2006
nagrano: Recorded on April 19 and 20, 2005, at Sparrow Sound Design, Chicago.

more info: www.482music.com
more info2: www.kylebruckmann.com