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Bird Meets Wire

Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Area 41; Bird Meets Wire; Is Is Not; Topology; Cañones (El Pueblo Unido); The Fourth World; Indigo Blue (Wayfarin’ Stranger).

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Susan Alcorn / Leila Bordreuil / Ingrid Laubrock: Bird Meets Wire

Read "Bird Meets Wire" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
August 11, 2021

Three accomplished improvisers of different generations meet in the studio on All Fools Day 2018 to explore some common and not so common ground. Although pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn started out in C&W, she takes her instrument to realms never envisioned by its originators. One could make the same claim for Brooklyn-based French-born cellist Leila ...

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Susan Alcorn, Leila Bordreuil, Ingrid Laubrock: Bird Meets Wire

Read "Bird Meets Wire" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
May 28, 2021

It may be impossible for anyone to free the pedal steel guitar entirely from its roots in country music but, if anyone can, Susan Alcorn would have to be the leading candidate. She has a phenomenal range on the instrument, capable of everything from folk-drenched Americana to abstract excursions, and she will sometimes combine her variegated ...