CD comes in beautiful six-panel cardboard digifle and include a booklet with liner notes by Kevin LeGendre
For the third installment of Ingrid Laubrock's duo series on Intakt (following Kasumi with Aki Takase and Blood Moon with Kris Davis) Ingrid Laubrock and Andy Milne develop their own sounds in a common sound world. Fragile is characterized by the great empathy that unites these two artists. The music, which is both stirring and soothing, confident and intuitive, is deeply expressive and inventive. “Laubrock’s growth as an original writer and improviser has been marked in the last two decades, during which time she has led several bands, notably Sleepthief and Anti-House, and proved adept at creating for large ensembles and small groups that revealed her own individuality, mostly within avant-garde traditions. As for Milne he has more than fulfilled the promise he showed as a member of Steve Coleman’s Metrics in the early ‘90s. The Laubrock-Milne duo has a balance between the drive and momentum of large ensembles and the stillness and engagement with silence and space of smaller groups. Making music that releases a form of energy, something that pulses with life, while also drawing down into intimacy, suggesting feelings of tenderness or uncertainty, is no mean feat”, writes Kevin Le Gendre in the liner notes.
released May 20, 2022
1. Equanimity
2. Fragment
3. Boulder Fall Ejecta
4. Fragile
5. Shard
6. Ants in my Brain
7. Unapologetically Yours
8. Illusion of Character
9. Kintsugi
10. Splinter
For the third installment of Ingrid Laubrock's duo series on Intakt (following Kasumi with Aki Takase and Blood Moon with Kris Davis) Ingrid Laubrock and Andy Milne develop their own sounds in a common sound world. Fragile is characterized by the great empathy that unites these two artists. The music, which is both stirring and soothing, confident and intuitive, is deeply expressive and inventive. “Laubrock’s growth as an original writer and improviser has been marked in the last two decades, during which time she has led several bands, notably Sleepthief and Anti-House, and proved adept at creating for large ensembles and small groups that revealed her own individuality, mostly within avant-garde traditions. As for Milne he has more than fulfilled the promise he showed as a member of Steve Coleman’s Metrics in the early ‘90s. The Laubrock-Milne duo has a balance between the drive and momentum of large ensembles and the stillness and engagement with silence and space of smaller groups. Making music that releases a form of energy, something that pulses with life, while also drawing down into intimacy, suggesting feelings of tenderness or uncertainty, is no mean feat”, writes Kevin Le Gendre in the liner notes.
Reviews:
www.intaktrec.ch/rev379.htm
Ingrid Laubrock: Tenor and Soprano Saxophone
Andy Milne: Piano
Recorded June 24, 2021, at Oktaven Audio, by Ryan Streber, Mt Vernon, NY. Mixed and mastered by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio. Painting: Sean Riley, Offering 2003. Graphic design: Jonas Schoder. Liner notes: Kevin LeGendre. Photo: Ryan Streber.
All compositions by Ingrid Laubrock (mcps/prs) except 7 & 9 which are by Andy Milne/Ingrid Laubrock
Recording produced by Ingrid Laubrock and Intakt Records. CD produced and published by Intakt Records.
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