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Matt Bauder: Paper Gardens
ByPartly constructed on horn- and string-based extended notes, coinciding with intermittent detours, the ensemble propagates a series of systematized pastiches, augmented with contrasting dialogues, generating dips and spikes to offset some of the streaming flows. On "Track B," the musicians traverse on intersecting routes via Bauder's popping sax notes and cellist Loren Dempster's droning undercurrents. The band uses space as an additional instrument, along with false endings and ominous intimations.
The musicians exercise control, yet render several off-kilter metrics. They raise and lower the pitch with emotively constructed passages, crafting a foreboding undercurrent during "Track G," thanks to Dempster and bassist Reuben Radding's swerving notes that adjoin Bauder and alto saxophonist Matana Roberts' flowering motifs. In other regions of sound, the artists engage in fiery exchanges.
All told, Bauder's theme-building mindset imparts a conglomeration of geometric stylizations, tucked within an organic framework that offers a prismatic reckoning of his principal objectives.
Track Listing
Track A; Track B; Track C; Track D; Track E; Track F; Track G; Track H; Track I; Track J; Track K.
Personnel
Matt Bauder
saxophone, tenorMatt Bauder: tenor saxophone, clarinet; Matana Roberts: alto saxophone, clarinet; Loren Dempster: cello; Reuben Radding: double-bass.
Album information
Title: Paper Gardens | Year Released: 2010 | Record Label: Porter Records
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About Matt Bauder
Instrument: Saxophone, tenor
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