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Steve Swell Solo Set
1) Hope is the Thing with Feathers that Perches in the Soul…
2) … and Sings the Tunes without the Words - and Never Stops at All
Steve Swell (trombone)
Leap of Faith with Special Guest Steve Swell
3) Rational Roots
Steve Swell (trombone)
PEK (clarinets, saxophones, double reeds, tarogato, metal, voice)
Glynis Lomon (cello, voice)
Steve Norton (clarinets, saxophones)
Yur Zbitnov (drums, metal, voice)
Leap of Faith Web Site album page...
http://www.giantevilclown.com/lof-factorizations.html
Reviews:
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2015/08/leap-of-faith-wsteve-swell-live-at.html
http://gapplegatemusicreview.blogspot.com/2015/11/steve-swell-leap-of-faith-factorizations.html
bandcamp for streaming, downloads and CD orders
https://leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/factorizations
YouTube:
Steve Swell Set
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os61eiUPIV4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYPnk7XI80o
LOF + Steve Swell Set
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brBl1kDqhlQ
CD Review By Bruce Lee Gallnater, Downtown Music Gallery
Featuring Steve Swell on trombone, PEK on clarinets, saxes, double reeds, taragato, metal & voice, Glynis Lomon cello & voice, Steve Norton on clarinets & saxes and Yuri Zbitnov on drums & metal. In August of this year (2015), the Boston-area based group Leap of Faith came to New York for a weekend to play two gigs. On Saturday, they played at the New Revolution Arts series in Brooklyn and on Sunday at DMG. Both nights followed the same format of Leap of Faith proper, a guest playing solo and then the guest & Leap of faith playing together. This disc features a solo set from Steve Swell and another set with Leap of Faith and Mr. Swell together. The opening set by Leap of Faith alone is found on another recently released CD.
This disc begins with Steve Swell playing solo trombone, generally a rarity although Mr. Swell did release his first solo CD last month. Mr. Swell begins slowly, bending those fluttering notes with breath-like sounds. Swell carefully manipulates each sound, each note is used to great effect. The set evolves organically. The combined set features the main quartet version of Leap of Faith with PEK on reeds, Gkynis Lomon on cello, Steve Norton on reeds and Yuri Zbitnov on drums with Mr. Swell on trombone.
You can tell that this group has been playing for many years since they have their own distinctive sound. Alien yet familiar, bizarre yet completely fascinating. Expanding, contracting, erupting, settling down, always as one force. Mr. Zbitnov is in fine form here on drums, the center of the storm directing the energy of flow as it soars and then comes back down to the earth. There is an incredible section here that is over-the-top yet knows when to let up before it evolves into some crazed screams. The audience for this set was perhaps 10 to 15 folks. We all knew something special, transcendent was happening. This disc captures that set just right. Lucky us. Out of their dozens of discs, this is one of the best! - Bruce Lee Gallanter
- Genre
- Pure improvisation
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