Sara Schoenbeck & Wayne Horvitz: Cell Walk

Avant Jazz / Współczesna Kameralistyka/Avant-Garde
premiera polska: 2021-05-05,
Wydawnicto Audiofilskie
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: Canada
opakowanie: ecopackowe etui
opis:
Editor's info:
Bassoonist Sara Schoenbeck and pianist Wayne Horvitz have been musical partners for almost 20 years, notably in Horvitz's Gravitas Quartet (formed 2004) and his Some Days are Forever Afternoon (2015), both on Songlines. They formed this duo in 2018 to play a program of their own music, and this is the first recording. There is something unexpected and quite special in how beautifully the two instruments blend (mostly acoustic, occasionally involving electronics on the piano). The music is composed, improvised, and everywhere in between. It is a study of the crossroads where texture and extended technique meet with and support the expression of melody and song.

Schoenbeck is regarded as one of the premiere bassoonists of her time in improvised music, jazz and new music. Frequent collaborators include Anthony Braxton, Butch Morris, Mark Dresser, Tomeka Reid, Pamela Z, Roscoe Mitchell, Nels Cline, Nicole Mitchell, Michael Leonhart, and Henry Threadgill. She maintains her commitment to micro-tonal music and contemporary music, including recent performance of works by Boulez and Xenakis. She has worked with numerous chamber groups including SEM and The Wet Ink Ensemble, and has appeared as a featured improvising soloist with the Mivos Quartet performing Horvitz' These Hills of Glory (String Quartet and Improviser). She appears on the soundtracks to The Matrix 2 and 3, Dahmer and Spanglish.

Horvitz, an integral member of the NY Downtown scene in the 80s, is known for his long-standing collaborations with John Zorn, Butch Morris, Bill Frisell, Robin Holcomb et al., as well as being a prolific composer for orchestra, string quartet, mixed chamber instrumentations, and electronics. Recent works include commissions for the Seattle Symphony, The North Corner Chamber Orchestra, and an installation for the Seattle Art Museum. He is the recipient of the 2015 Doris Duke Performers Award and the 2019 America Prize.

Midwest Record Review
Working together for a few decades before pairing down to this duo, this duo knows how to ply their jazzbo chops in an avant chamber way as opposed to just laying out an array of art jazz for you to pick through. Eggheaded without the usual snootiness that goes with so much of the genre, this comes across as a fine recital with a point of view that you can get behind. There's only two of them, but they know how to fill your head with sound.
by Chris Spector

muzycy:
Sara Schoenbeck: Bassoon
Wayne Horvitz: piano, amplified piano, live processing, Wurlitzer electric piano

utwory:
1. Undecided 3:44
2. Twinning 2:08
3. No Blood Relation 4:14
4. Long Wing 2:57
5. 3 Places In Southern California 2:20
6. The Fifth Day 6:35
7. Deep Well Well 3:31
8. Tin Palace 2:11
9. Cell Walk 3:33
10. Sutter St. 6:09
11. Laughter 3:03
12. For Lou Harrison 2:51
13. Sleeper Ship 3:25
14. Ironbound 5:56
15. Marcuselle 3:53
16. We Will Be Silk 3:16
17. American Bandstand 3:50

wydano: 05/22/20
more info: www.songlines.com