Ingrid Laubrock – Contemporary Chaos Practices (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:44 minutes | 739 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Intakt Records
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: “The 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 its 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.”
Tracklist:
1-01. Ingrid Laubrock – Contemporary Chaos Practices, Pts. 1 & 2 (15:57)
1-02. Ingrid Laubrock – Contemporary Chaos Practices, Pt. 3 (05:16)
1-03. Ingrid Laubrock – Contemporary Chaos Practices, Pt. 4 (02:42)
1-04. Ingrid Laubrock – Vogelfrei (17:48)
