Object of Unknown Function, out October 18, 2024 via Pyroclastic Records, layers vintage banjos, electric and 12-string guitars and cassette recordings into an uncategorizable hybrid, one of its kind recording.
“Seabrook occupies sound worlds all his own. Is it jazz? Metal? Classical? Folk? Punk? It’s all of the above—usually at the same time.” – Brad Cohan, Bandcamp Daily
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
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
release date: 04.03.2022 via Firehouse 12 Records
“Deliberately seeing double in the cause of exploratory jazz, Fujiwara brings together instrumentalists primed to rub each other in all the right and creatively wrong ways.“ – The New Yorker
“[The six musicians’] collective talent and Fujiwara’s innovative leadership make for a tonic of unpredictability… A triple scoop of great music.” – Britt Robson, JazzTimes
“March is brilliantly mad, joyously improvisational, cathartically cleansing. The perfect companion to two years of isolation, this music frees your spirits and clearly makes the musicians soar.…It all goes happy-hour punch-drunk in the dual-drummer assault of ‘Wave Shake Angle Bounce,” with ominous tri-tones backing gleeful guitar and trumpet as Fujiwara and Cleaver bash and bleed.” – Ken Micallef, JazzTimes
