06 Mar

[ March 8th, 2024 release on Pyroclastic Records: David Leon – Bird’s Eye ]

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Bird’s Eye, due out March 8, 2024 via Pyroclastic Records, features a pathfinding new trio with gayageum player DoYeon Kim and drummer/percussionist Lesley Mok.

“[David Leon’s] extroversion feels like a natural part of his musical personality, spiking his agile post-bop with nifty conceptual brio that never gets in the way of his desire to communicate.” – Peter Margasak, The Quietus

“[Bird’s Eye] maintained an easy and fluid connection… [Mok] effortlessly augmented Leon’s… solos and punctuated the texture without overpowering DoYeon Kim, who shredded so hard on the gayagum that she had to actually reassemble her instrument before the set was over.” – Lana Norris, I Care If You Listen

02 Feb

[ February 2nd, 2024 release on Pyroclastic Records: Ches Smith – Laugh Ash ]

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Due out February 2, 2024 via Pyroclastic Records, the album features a brilliant ensemble with James Brandon Lewis, Nate Wooley, Anna Webber, Shahzad Ismaily, Oscar Noriega, Shara Lunon, Jennifer Choi, Kyle Armbrust and Michael Nicolas.

“A go-to percussionist for experimental jazz and new-music ensembles, Ches Smith gravitates toward edgy outfits… while displaying a musical personality as detail-oriented as it is sweepingly ornate.” Steve Futterman, The New Yorker

“The nondescript term ‘drummer’ doesn’t get near the chemistry of earworm hooks, sharp-end jazz innovation and global-musical openness of New York percussionist/composer Ches Smith.” John Fordham, The Guardian

21 Dec

[ December 21th, 2023 release on Pyroclastic Records: Bertoia Sound Sculptures + 12 Master Improvisors = Sculpting Sound ]

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Pyroclastic Records presents Sculpting Sound, a groundbreaking collection of six once-in-a-lifetime performances bringing together twelve master improvisers with the sound sculptures of visionary artist Harry Bertoia

These captivating performances, available on the Winter Solstice, December 21, 2023 via SculptingSound.org, feature Nels Cline, Ben Monder, Ambrose Akinmusire, Nate Wooley, Ingrid Laubrock, JD Allen, Jen Shyu, Brandon Seabrook, Marcus Gilmore, Dan Weiss, Kris Davis and Craig Taborn

26 Oct

[ October 27th, 2023 release via Pyroclastic Records: Angelica Sanchez — Nighttime Creatures ]

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Pianist/Composer Angelica Sanchez explores the vibrant hues of the nocturnal world on the debut album by her all-star Nonet

Nighttime Creatures, due out October 27, 2023 via Pyroclastic Records, Angelica Sanchez‘s NONET, features Michaël Attias, Ben Goldberg, John Hébert, Thomas Heberer, Sam Ospovat, Chris Speed, Omar Tamez and Kenny Warren

“One of the most persistently overlooked and under-recorded pianists of her generation, Angelica Sanchez… nonchalantly displays her versatility [on] fleet post-bop, fully improvised excursions, or… brooding introspection.” – Peter Margasak, The Quietus

” Angelica Sanchez is a pianist of great depth and imagination.” – Richard J. Salvucci, All About Jazz

01 Sep

[ September 1th, 2023 – Pyroclastic Records: Kris Davis’ Diatom Ribbons – Live at the Village Vanguard ]

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The brilliant Grammy winning pianist and composer Kris Davis‘ Diatom Ribbons release the striking new double album Live at the Village Vanguard today, September 1, 2023 via Pyroclastic Records.

The album reunites Davis with her core collaborators from her widely heralded 2019 album Diatom Ribbons – drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, turntablist and electronic musician Val Jeanty and bassist Trevor Dunn – and adds a new voice to the mix with guitarist Julian Lage

“On Diatom Ribbons, [Kris Davis’] skills as a composer, band assembler, system builder and improviser — a musical auteur, basically — come fully into focus.” – Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times

“[Diatom Ribbons] is the most versatile and bracing jazz recording of 2019… [it] successfully combines thrilling vision and a hunger for repeat listenings.” – Will Layman, PopMatters

“Scintillating … mesmerizing… it comes when her ascension in the jazz ecosystem continues to soar.” – John Murph, DownBeat

“Diatom Ribbons is a multi-stylistic, super-eclectic extravaganza, embracing both grooves and free tempo… A cornucopia of delights.” – Andy Hamilton, The Wire

01 May

[ May the 5th, 2023 release via Pyroclastic Records: Mark Dresser – Tines of Change ]

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Tines of Change, due out May 5, 2023 via Pyroclastic Records, features custom-designed 4- and 5-string basses with fingerboard-embedded pickups and a set of metal tines that offer stunning new possibilities that Dresser vividly explores

“[Mark Dresser is] a bassist who is one of the great instrumental forces in recent American jazz outside the mainstream.” – Ben Ratliff, The New York Times

” Dresser uses the bow like Picasso used the brush: to refract and recast certain realities and to create completely new ones.” – Robert Bush, San Diego Reader

23 Mar

[ 31 March, 2023 release via Pyroclastic Rec: Ingrid Laubrock w.Tomeka Reid, Brandon Seabrook, Mazz Swift, Michael Formanek, Tom Rainey – The Last Quiet Place ]

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release date: 31.03.2023 via Pyroclastic Records

Saxophonist/composer Ingrid Laubrock fuses experimental jazz ensemble, avant-rock group, and altered string quartet in one electrifying sextet on her striking new album.

“Laubrock possesses one of the most fetchingly original free-improv styles out there–throaty, gutsy, bravely lyrical–but recently, her composing and arranging have proven as engaging as her soloing.” – Paul de Barros, DownBeat

“As a bandleader, the wildly inventive soprano and tenor saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock shepherds… category-defying projects with a bent toward unconventional instrumentation and disparate style-shifting.” – Brad Cohan, JazzTimes

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13 Nov

[ November the 18th, 2022 release on Pyroclastic Records: Patricia Brennan – More Touch ]

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More Touch, the powerful new album by visionary vibraphonist, marimbist and composer Patricia Brennan will be out November 18 via Pyroclastic Records. Joining Brennan are her wholly unique quartet with bassist Kim Cass, drummer Marcus Gilmore and percussionist Mauricio Herrera.

“Moving way outside the standard language of jazz vibraphone, Patricia Brennan has created something like a landscape of vapor, full of wandering melodies lost in the fog.” – Giovanni Russonello, citing Maquishti among the New York Times Best Jazz Albums of 2021

“You could say that Brennan drags the vibraphone into the 21st century, but her record suggests that mallet based percussion was always ripe for exploration.”
– Daniel Felsenthal, Pitchfork

21 Oct

[ October the 28th, 2022 release via Pyroclastic Records: Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant – Séances ]

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Séances, out October 28, 2022 via Pyroclastic Records, features Mary Halvorson, Ches Smith, Anna Webber, Carla Kihlstedt, Mariel Roberts and Oscar Noriega navigating chamber-jazz-metal compositions inspired by the bizarre tales of an 18^th-century French religious sect

“ The music [Trio-Convulsant] play is not so much a fusion of styles as it is a collision of styles… If you’ve been following Trevor Dunn‘s widely varied career as a player, you know he’s got a sense of adventure.” – Sean Westergaard, AllMusic.com

“[Trio-Convulsant] hurtles from heavy to weightless and back again so quickly it’s hard to keep up… [pulling] it off with rare style and impressive improvisational rigor.” – Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader

18 Jul

[ July the 29th, 2022 release on Pyroclastic: Nate Wooley & Columbia Icefield’s – Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes ]

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Trumpeter/Composer Nate Wooley releases breathtaking second album by his singular quartet Columbia Icefield – Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes, due out July 29, 2022 via Pyroclastic Records, features Mary Halvorson, Susan Alcorn and Ryan Sawyer

“Columbia Icefield [feels like] a mixture of quiet exaltation, wild exaltation, melancholy, fear, curiosity, struggle to keep warm… the prettiest (if most progressive) campfire music ever written.” – Zachary Woolfe, New York Times

“Columbia Icefield, with its long stretches of atmosphere interrupted by jarring dissonances, [is] something weird, haunting, lonely, and endlessly fascinating.” – Michael J. West, JazzTimes

Album Release Concert Monday, July 25 at TV Eye, Brooklyn, NY