Brennan, Patricia - Breaking Stretch CD
SKU
28-PYOC35.2
Jon Irabagon - alto and sopranino saxophones
Mark Shim - tenor saxophone
Adam O’Farrill - trumpet (with electronics on tracks 1, 3 and 9)
Marcus Gilmore - drums
Mauricio Herrera - percussion
Kim Cass - bass
Patricia Brennan - vibraphone with electronics, marimba
“With each new release in her still-burgeoning career, the vision of vibraphonist/marimbist/composer Patricia Brennan has grown exponentially in both scale and scope. From the nucleus of her acclaimed solo debut Maquishti she formed a singular quartet for her venturesome follow-up, More Touch, hailed as “scarily good” by All About Jazz.
On her fiercely original third album, Breaking Stretch, Brennan’s creative imagination expands yet again, supplementing its predecessor’s core band (Brennan, bassist Kim Cass, drummer Marcus Gilmore and percussionist Mauricio Herrera) with an adventurous trio of horns – Jon Irabagon on alto and sopranino saxes, Mark Shim on tenor, and Adam O’Farrill on trumpet and electronics.
Breaking Stretch draws together Brennan’s wide-ranging interests into a dramatic, mesmerizing balance, shifting fluidly between the grooving and the strident, the ethereal and the intricate. Brennan deftly melds the distinctive voices of her collaborators into a densely layered amalgam, the palette of her own mallet instruments transfigureed through the use of electronics.
The title of Breaking Stretch is a concise representation of Brennan’s envelope-pushing ambitions. Breaking references her desire to push herself and her bandmates to their limits, to mine the transcendent results of virtuosic imaginations confronted by unexpected challenges. Stretch captures her music’s intense elasticity, its ability to stretch from the taut and minutely focused to the wide-angled and reaching. Those extremes are depicted in the album’s striking artwork, a mix of astronomical and volcanic images, placing the cosmic and the subterranean side by side – the differences between the opposing poles, as in Brennan’s work, at times nearly indistinguishable.”
- LabelPyroclastic
- UPC020286248392