Serpentines (Ingrid Laubrock album)

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Serpentines
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Studio album by
Ingrid Laubrock
Released2016
RecordedMay 24, 2016
StudioSystems Two, Brooklyn
Genre Jazz
Length53:32
Label Intakt
Producer Ingrid Laubrock
Ingrid Laubrock chronology
Buoyancy
(2016)		Serpentines
(2016)		 Planktonic Finales
(2017)

Serpentines is an album by German jazz saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, which was recorded in 2016 and released by Intakt Records. [1] It features a septet with an unusual line-up, with Miya Masaoka playing the koto, a traditional Japanese instrument, and individual instrumental parts manipulated electronically by Sam Pluta. Laubrock assembled the band (without guest trumpeter Peter Evans) for the Vision Festival 2015. [2]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Down Beat Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Free Jazz CollectiveStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Jazz TrailA− [6]

The Down Beat review by Peter Margasak notes, "Laubrock has created a work of remarkable density, both in terms of ideas and physical sound, and it yields greater dividends with each spin." [4]

The All About Jazz review by John Sharpe states, "For this line up Laubrock takes her enigmatic charts for groups such as Anti-house and Ubatuba to another level, as improv jazz meets the classical avant-garde in pieces where mood and texture often trump individual pyrotechnics." [3]

The Free Jazz Collective's Dan Sorrells wrote: "Serpentines is a record that demands to be played again; it's music that can be appreciated, but perhaps not fully understood after only one listen. It's a fitting and absorbing continuation of Laubrock's ongoing project: writing music that both excites and challenges some of the world's best improvisers." [5]

Filipe Freitas of Jazz Trail commented: "Accurately composed and wrapped in fantastic chemistry, Serpentines reaffirms Laubrock as an indispensable figure in the contemporary jazz. New York is her home, but this music has no borders, showing solid, serpentine roads paved with freedom and discipline, expansions and contractions, composure and convulsion." [6]

Track listing

All compositions by Ingrid Laubrock.

  1. "Pothole Analytics Pt. 1" – 4:44
  2. "Pothole Analytics Pt. 2" – 5:42
  3. "Chip in Brain" – 12:31
  4. "Squirrels" – 15:15
  5. "Serpentines" – 15:20

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Serpentines at Intakt Records
  2. ↑ Original Liner Notes by Florian Keller
  3. 1 2 Sharpe, John. Serpentines review at All About Jazz
  4. 1 2 Margasak, Peter. Serpentines review. Down Beat March 17: page 63. Print.
  5. 1 2 Sorrells, Dan (December 23, 2016). "Ingrid Laubrock - Serpentines". The Free Jazz Collective. Retrieved November 15, 2023.
  6. 1 2 Freitas, Filipe (January 11, 2017). "Ingrid Laubrock - Serpentines". Jazz Trail. Retrieved November 15, 2023.
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