Results for "Leila Bordreuil"

Leila Bordreuil

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).

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

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 ...

Brand New Jazz Sounds

by Bob Osborne
June 24, 2021

All new releases from around the World of Jazz. A new mini-album by The Near Jazz Experience highlights the band's hypnotic improv grooves, salutes a pop hero and explores new ground in the shape of electronic beats and live sound manipulation. Pianist Ray Gallon's debut recording arrives after more than three decades of him plying his ...

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

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 ...

Ground Breaking Sounds - Old and New

by Bob Osborne
May 13, 2021

Throughout the history of jazz innovation has been a key element of the development of the music. At key points in jazz history major changes in style, form and content have moved the music forward. Those changes have been picked up by other musicians and developed, interpreted, and enhanced leading to further change. This show is ...

The Caustic Ballads

By Leila Bordreuil

Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Born Of Its Own Asphyxiation; Pleasure And Cruelty; Intimate Shrinkage Of My Body And The Castration Of My Life; Caustic Ballads; Criminal Caresses I; Into The Peristyle Of Love’s Temple; Wherever The Organism Discharges Its Internal Rottenness; Your Strokes, My Shivers; Criminal Caresses II; Gimp; Throb; SpitPig; The Whip And The Body.

Leila Bordreuil & Michael Foster: The Caustic Ballads

by Hrayr Attarian
August 24, 2016

Brooklyn based Cellist Leila Bordreuil and saxophonist Michael Foster explore the emotional boundaries of tonality on the otherworldly and daring Caustic Ballads. The thirteen improvised duets, with their disturbing and poetic titles are abstract in their conception, intimately delivered and deeply visceral in their impact.The hypnotic “Into the Peristyle of Love's Temple" for example ...

Leila Bordreuil & Michael Foster: The Caustic Ballads

by Glenn Astarita
April 27, 2016

On the surface, the album title might be an oxymoron. None of these free-form works resemble traditional ballads, but the young Brooklyn-based duo's ideology and vision is clearly distinct and personalized via these jaunts that to some extent, parallel the British free jazz scene with acidic, creaky and scorching elaborations. There is a consortium of zany ...