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Sonic Openings Under Pressure

Local Talent, Saxophone Summit and More

by Bob Osborne
January 2, 2020

On this show there is a focus on two recent albums by Local Talent and Saxophone Summit. Local Talent combines three of Canada's most eminent instrumentalists performing together on record for the first time. The group is lead by composer and keyboardist James Hill, a rising star of the Toronto scene, known best for ...

Muhheankuntuk

By Sonic Openings Under Pressure

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Tilting Curvaceous; Abundant; Flash Of The Spirit; The Hardships; Prosified; The Terrible 3s; Permeations Gumvindaboloo.

Sonic Openings Under Pressure: Muhheankuntuk

by Nic Jones
November 16, 2007

For all of its commitment to a different aesthetic this could be a trio that takes its cues from the Ornette Coleman trio from some forty odd years ago with David Izenzon on bass and drummer Charles Moffett. As is so often the case, however, the comparison is as much hindrance as it is help in ...

Rapt Circle

By Sonic Openings Under Pressure

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2005
Track listing: Scissor Bump; Spin; Which Way What; Scissor Bump; Covert; Which Way What.

Sonic Openings Under Pressure: Rapt Circle

by Rex Butters
January 15, 2005

Rapt Circle presents Patrick Brennan's sonic openings under pressure in two performances three weeks apart in June of 2002. Brennan played free, then worked with advanced compositional forms that blur lines between spontaneous and prepared, developing over fifty pieces. With a nod to Roscoe Mitchell, Brennan evolved an original sound that keeps the alto meaty and ...