Patricia Brennan Archives - Jazz Press by Greg Drygala

Guitarist Miles Okazaki gathers an extraordinary cast of ten musicians to create Miniature America, a collection of 22 vignettes exploring the wonder of chance encounters and “found” compositions.

Available July 19, 2024 via Cygnus Recordings, the album offers a serpentine journey through a sonic landscape created by Okazaki using radical studio techniques and material improvised by Matt Mitchell, Jen Shyu, Anna Webber, Jacob Garchik, Fay Victor, Jon Irabagon, Ganavya, Caroline Davis, and Patricia Brennan.

“finding fresh joy, surprise and what he calls “thisness” in off-kilter musical geometry has long been Okazaki’s specialty.” – Alan Scherstuhl, The New York Times

“Okazaki is a wildly versatile musician, freakishly precise, but also full of emotion.” – Craig Morgan Teicher, The Paris Review

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

Patricia Brennan

[ July 19th, 2024 release via Cygnus Records: Miles Okazaki – Miniature America ]

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