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Ingrid Laubrock: Sleepthief
Munster-born and London-raised Laubrock has recorded with Noble previously under somewhat different parametersa duo which saw them engage Monk, Konitz, Ellington and others with a more tightly-controlled air. Here, the fetters have been all but pulled away and the three stretch out on nine group improvisations. Laubrock studied with Dave Liebman on a year-long visit to the States in 1998-99 and it sometimes shows in her velvety, bell-in-the-thigh tenor improvisations, which rise from purrs to preachy shouts and tumbling runs in a few short bars. On the title track, Noble echoes Monk with a slick edge to his playfulness, pattering exuberance bringing a chorus of yelps from Laubrock's tenor. "Oofy Twerp" reiterates the wiriness of the trio's texture of tugs at the piano's guts and a dissected rumba, while soprano darts, winnows and curls upwards of rhythmic beams.
Yet left out in approaching the trio's burly spontaneous architecture is a focus on sound, both in mergers and isolation. Unaccompanied, Laubrock's soprano finds an affinity for shakuhachi, or letting split tenor tones hang in the air, whether or not a cross-stitching of mallets and ivory are there to support with an under-weave. That's not to say Sleepthief isn't eminently conversantseemingly contained statements suddenly breed rustle, giving way to the thrum of an East European racehorse. But the trio's high-octane playing rises from languid, near idle talk, an energy that comes from detail and to pregnant silences it always returns.
Track Listing
Zugunruhe; Sleepthief; Oofy Twerp; Never Were Not; Environmental Stud; The Ears Have It; Batchelor's Know-How; Social Cheats; Amelie.
Personnel
Ingrid Laubrock
saxophoneIngrid Laubrock: tenor and soprano saxophones; Liam Noble: piano; Tom Rainey: drums.
Album information
Title: Sleepthief | Year Released: 2009 | Record Label: Intakt Records
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