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Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack: Intents & Purposes
by Troy Collins
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 ...
Wrack
Label: Red Toucan Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Rather Dour; Elegy for a Boiled Frog; Extenuating Circumstances; Sins of Omission; Mitigating Factors; Gearshifts & Parentheticals; Lonely Woman.
Kyle Bruckmann: Wrack
by Rex Butters
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 ...
Grand Mal
Label: Barely Auditable Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Catatonic Posturing I; Nervous Tic; Gray Matter; Spatial Agnosia; The
Final "d" in "Grand" Is Not Pronounced; Big, Bad; Retrograde Amnesia; Shaking Palsy; Tonic Clonic; Catatonic Posturing II.
Wrack
Label: Red Toucan Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Rather Dour; Elegy for a Boiled Frog; Extenuating Circumstances; Sins of Omission; Mitigating Factors; Gearshifts & Parentheticals; Lonely Woman.
Kyle Bruckmann: Wrack
by Jerry D'Souza
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 ...
Kyle Bruckmann: Grand Mal
by Jerry D'Souza
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. ...
Kyle Bruckmann: Grand Mal
by Frank Rubolino
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 ...
