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Space Whale Orchestra: Born into Beauty

by Hrayr Attarian
July 4, 2021

The Philadelphia based Space Whale Orchestra is a collaborative improvisational quartet that has been successfully forging a singular style. Led by keyboardist Erica Corbo, the group's Born Into Beauty goes beyond conceptual cohesiveness—it is, in fact, a single, spontaneously created, 17-part suite. The band members perform this stimulating, genre defying work with sensitivity and panache. On the opening title track, trombonist Connor Przybyszewski sets a tense and introspective mood with reverberating vamps. As saxophonist Steve Davit and clarinetist ...