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Stephan Crump, Ingrid Laubrock, Cory Smythe - Planktonic Finales (2017) [Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Improvisation]; FLAC

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Stephan Crump, Ingrid Laubrock, Cory Smythe - Planktonic Finales (2017) [Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Improvisation]; FLAC

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Artist: Stephan Crump, Ingrid Laubrock, Cory Smythe
Album: Planktonic Finales
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Improvisation
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2017
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
  1. With Eyes Peeled
  2. Tones for Climbing Plants
  3. Sinew Modulations
  4. Through the Forest
  5. A House Alone
  6. Three-Panel
  7. Submerged (Personal) Effects
  8. Pulse Memory
  9. Bite Bright Sunlight
  10. As if in Its Throat
  11. Inscribed in Trees

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    Personnel:
  • Crump Stephan - acoustic bass
  • Laubrock Ingrid - tenor & soprano sax
  • Smythe Cory - piano

Stephan Crump, Ingrid Laubrock and Cory Smythe – this trio consists of three innovative improvisers and jazz musicians of the younger Brooklyn scene. An intense and extremely relaxed encounter in the recording studio led to this outstanding CD.

Christoph Wagner writes in the liner notes: "Over long periods, the music seemed to play itself. Long notes and exciting arcs set the tone for a sound which can appear introvert, sometimes almost meditative. Variation and contrast are provided by more expressive outbursts from the saxophone, interspersed with rippling piano cascades or hammered, staccato bursts of Morse code. Deep down the powerful bass thunders on. Fascinating sensory illusions emerge. When listening back to the recordings, at times even the musicians were no longer sure if what they were hearing came from sax or from bowed bass."

This album grew from a friendship. It began when German-born saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock invited bassist Stephan Crump and pianist Cory Smythe—both stalwarts of New York’s creative music and contemporary classical scenes—to her Brooklyn apartment in 2015 for an informal jam. According to the participants, the chemistry was immediate: “It worked right from the first note,” Crump recalls in the liner notes. The trio reconvened at a recording studio in Yonkers, New York, later that year to capture the magic, and Planktonic Finales, the group’s debut, is the fruit of those bountiful recording sessions. As one might expect from a trio of such talented improvisers, the composite sound is one of discovery and process, of organic structures being assembled without a blueprint or fixed template. The sonic density is therefore highly variable, with alternating moments of extreme fragility and near-impenetrable mass. Occasionally, those textural variations occur within close proximity on the same track. That’s certainly the case with “Sinew Modulations,” the album’s longest piece, which swaps fragments of crackling intensity with swathes of pillowy sensitivity. Formal structures emerge from within the acoustic shape-shifting, often in fresh and surprising ways. A thundering piano statement erupts from the woody bass rumblings of “Through The Forest,” and spare, ghostly soprano saxophone notes drift through the mist of “Submerged (Personal) Effects,” generating the feeling of both inevitability and surprise. If camaraderie is at the heart of free improvisation—fostering deep listening and uninhibited communication—then the trio of Crump, Laubrock and Smythe seem to have synchronized around the same pulse.

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