Ghost Practice by Michaël Attias published on 2012-10-22T00:40:20Z Composed by Michaël Attias (Ravished Limbs/SESAC) Michaël Attias: alto saxophone Ralph Alessi: trumpet Matt Mitchell: piano Sean Conly: piano Tom Rainey: drums recorded by Joe Marciano at Systems Two in Brooklyn on April 11, 2012 mixed by Joseph Branciforte release date September 30. 2012 Doubly rooted in his past collaborations with visionary masters Anthony Braxton and the late great Paul Motian, Spun Tree is Attias' first studio recording since 2004 and also his first to explore the sonority of the classic alto/trumpet frontline. If the music on his two previous Clean Feed releases (Renku in Coimbra and Twines of Colesion) was about finding compositional shape through collective improvisation, this new album reverses the balance and returns to the more epic forms of Credo, his first. In a journey from negative clarity to a negation of negation which equals joy, the eight new compositions – four large-scale multi-panel pieces and four "simpler" ones – balance size and density with enough air, intuition, rhythmic agility and interplay to keep all the branches of this tree spinning and dancing in the sunlight. Genre Jazz
