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The Caustic Ballads

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.

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Leila Bordreuil & Michael Foster: The Caustic Ballads

Read "The Caustic Ballads" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


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 ...

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Leila Bordreuil & Michael Foster: The Caustic Ballads

Read "The Caustic Ballads" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


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 ...


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