Sleepthief (Ingrid Laubrock album)

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Sleepthief
Sleepthief Laubrock cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released2008
RecordedSeptember 1, 2007
Studio Radley College
Genre Jazz
Length63:38
Label Intakt
Ingrid Laubrock chronology
Let's Call This...
(2006)
Sleepthief
(2008)
Paradoxical Frog
(2010)

Sleepthief is the eponymous debut album by German jazz saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock's free improvisation trio with British pianist Liam Noble and American drummer Tom Rainey. It was recorded in 2007 and released on the Swiss Intakt label. [1] Laubrock and Noble played together since 2005 and recorded the duo Let's Call This... . While Rainey was visiting the UK they decided to get together and Sleepthief was born. [2]

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Reception

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The 5-star All About Jazz review by Chris May states, "In British pianist Liam Noble and American drummer Tom Rainey, Laubrock has found the perfect partners—restlessly inventive, provocative, deep, infinitely nuanced, spontaneously architectural." [3] AAJ's Nic Jones commented: "this is heavy creativity indeed... it's also a declaration of the abiding value of collective, spontaneous music making." [4]

In a review for The Guardian , John Fordham notes that, "The music is free-jazz, but full of contrasts. Some of it finds the Monkish Noble banging chords while Rainey plays scattered patterns at half his speed, some has Laubrock's gruff, Evan Parkerish trills and whirrs drifting up and down over piano-string twangs and arrhythmic clatters." [6]

The Free Jazz Collective's Stef Gijssels noted the music's "seeming paradox[es]": "intimacy and expansiveness... warmth and creativity, tradition and avant-garde," and described the album as "highly recommendable." [5]

Writing for Point of Departure, Brian Morton called the album "clever, emotionally nuanced and sheerly enjoyable," describing Laubrock's tone as "something very individual and original." [7]

Track listing

All compositions by Laubrock, Noble, Rainey
  1. "Zugunruhe" – 8:19
  2. "Sleepthief" – 10:30
  3. "Oofy Twerp" – 5:54
  4. "Never Were Not" – 9:55
  5. "Environmental Stud" – 7:04
  6. "The Ears Have It" – 8:33
  7. "Batchelor's Know-how" – 5:39
  8. "Social Cheats" – 4:39
  9. "Amelie" – 3:05

Personnel

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References

  1. Sleepthief at Intakt Records
  2. Sleepthief at Ingrid Laubrock
  3. 1 2 May, Chris. Sleepthief review at All About Jazz
  4. 1 2 Jones, Nic (September 9, 2008). "Ingrid Laubrock: Sleepthief". All About Jazz. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
  5. 1 2 Gijssels, Stef (October 30, 2008). "Ingrid Laubrock - Sleepthief". The Free Jazz Collective. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
  6. 1 2 Fordham, John Sleepthief review at The Guardian
  7. Morton, Brian. "Moment's Notice: Recent CDs Briefly Reviewed". Point of Departure. Retrieved November 16, 2023.