Jazz Articles about Kyle Bruckmann

Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack: Intents & Purposes

by Troy Collins
October 24, 2006

Following oboist Kyle Bruckmann's self-titled 2003 Toucan Records debut, Intents & Purposes finds his Wrack ensemble exploring a similar program of experimental chamber jazz. Bruckmann effortlessly occupies the space between jazz and classical music, generating movements of somber reflection one minute, turbulent intensity the next. From Morton Feldman-esque minimalism to Charles Ives-like bluster, Wrack has few equals.

Bruckmann concentrates on oboe, but he also dabbles in English horn and suona. Since two of the group's original members were ...

Kyle Bruckmann: Wrack

by Rex Butters
January 8, 2004

Kyle Bruckmann rises out of the seething pool that is Chicago experimental music. He plays accordion and Moog in the avant punk band, Lozenge, and to make ends meet he freelances on oboe in classical ensembles, where he has performed Cage, Crumb, and Ives, among others. Wrack arose from Bruckmann's desire to compose themes for improvisation with four specific players in mind. He brings together Lozenge-mate Kurt Johnson on bass, drummer Tim Daisy and trombonist Jeb Bishop of the Vandermark ...

Kyle Bruckmann: Wrack

by Jerry D'Souza
November 21, 2003

Kyle Bruckmann has been trained in classical music, which relies on structure. He is also an experimentalist, which requires the deconstruction of structure. In tandem, the two approaches can make for an interesting devolution, as the whole becomes fragmented only to be made whole again. Bruckmann has the acumen to trigger his technical prowess with schematic variables and come up trumps. He does this as he sows the idea in placid waters... or the eye of a storm. ...

Kyle Bruckmann: Grand Mal

by Jerry D'Souza
May 4, 2003

Sound shapes. The shapes that spring from the imagination. What is formless swirls and settles into shape. Or maybe it bloats into excess and then collapses in meaningless heap. The four players on this workout get their collective creativity working in tandem, coming up with some interesting twists and surprises until the final encounter.

Sound is their escape into another world. Power gets gnarled and knotted, a paean to pain or so it would seem in the gnarled ...

Kyle Bruckmann: Grand Mal

by Frank Rubolino
April 21, 2003

A branch of improvising artists with roots on the USA's West Coast flourishes on not being satisfied with the status quo. These Bay Area renegades continue to push the envelope in search of that which is truly new. Their unique experimental environment has beckoned woodwind player Kyle Bruckmann from his Midwest abode on several occasions. On this trek, he unites with Ernesto Diaz- Infante, John Shiurba, and Karen Stackpole to form a union of sound processors submerged into one bubbling ...