Snark Horse [Box Set], by Matt Mitchell & Kate Gentile

Snark Horse [Box Set]

by Matt Mitchell & Kate Gentile

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Snark Horse 6-CD Box Set
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All 6 discs in a clamshell style box. Comes with a beautiful 12-page booklet containing a breakdown of which musicians play on which tracks, which pieces are by Matt and which are by Kate, and words by each band member of the Snark Horsekestra and mixing/mastering wizard David Torn.

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1.	flock adulation 02:30	buy track
2.	compartments \| 's partial 09:10	buy track
3.	hem(atoadaso)da 02:03	buy track
4.	a pouting grimace \| greasy puzzle 09:28	buy track
5.	forn 05:12	buy track
6.	pheromone quiz 04:15	buy track
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10.	igh \| dogmacile 10:55	buy track
11.	trapezoids \| matching tickles 06:59	buy track
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18.	torpid blather \| fuck your capitalization style \| pendulum wobbles 12:30	buy track
19.	teeming molten holdings 03:16	buy track
20.	thing-fact \| theoretical muscle 06:49	buy track
21.	adrenal halos \| dog mma((t)t)gic 11:36	buy track
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24.	fickle laughing 04:42	buy track
25.	for teens \| spinal thought \| peripheral drome 09:13	buy track
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27.	glubz \| spelling bad on purpose 09:53	buy track
28.	garlic plastics 04:31	buy track
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31.	Tørn 03:28	buy track
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37.	phoofaux \| rejected names \| high popes 15:37	buy track
38.	startling and diaphanous \| the gnostic and the spastic 10:05	buy track
39.	B 05:28	buy track
40.	strikes me as wanting to make me barf \| clump 3 06:51	buy track
41.	mad homonyms \| phex 05:16	buy track
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47.	glue cubes \| inkblot terrain \| clock levitation \| cat secrets \| bludgement 23:46	buy track
48.	catjinx 02:38	buy track
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about

Snark Horse is a book of 70 highly-detailed one-bar compositions by pianist / composer Matt Mitchell and percussionist / composer Kate Gentile designed to incite inventive, multi-directional improvisation. It is also the name of a revolving cast of musicians – including Mitchell and Gentile – who have performed this music in various combinations since 2013. Mitchell's prior release, Phalanx Ambassadors, was called by Popmatters "a high watermark for the new jazz... a breathtaking jawdropper from one of the best pianists and composers now working." Gentile's 2017 debut release, Mannequins, was described by The New York Times as "full of stuttering rhythms and teetering intervallic jumps; an array of textures — sometimes chiming, sometimes abraded — disorient you even as they deepen your listening."

For this new recording, Mitchell and Gentile convened eight other singular musicians – all of whom have taken part in Snark Horse performances over the years – in varying combinations. Despite the small nuggets of musical information, their approach is still jazz-oriented: the musicians first play, and then improvise on the tunes. The one-bar compositions can be looped, connected, made into vamps, transposed, inverted, alternated, played together to create other-worldly counterpoint, basically in infinite permutations. Ultimately, Mitchell and Gentile’s intention behind Snark Horse is to make a highly improvisational and expansive environment using compressed versions of the kinds of material they use in their longer pieces. The compositions help foster a unique, highly imaginative universe for the musicians to show off their individual takes on this truly idiosyncratic music. Their energy is captured in over 270 minutes of music, interwoven with 60 additional minutes of electronic material composed and constructed by Mitchell in response to the group recordings. The entire daunting project presents the musicians’ resourceful creativity to full effect.

credits

released July 30, 2021

the Snark Horsekestra:

Kate Gentile - compositions, drums & percussion
Matt Mitchell - compositions, piano, modular synthesizer, Prophet-6, MicroFreak & electronics
Kim Cass - acoustic & electroacoustic bass
Ben Gerstein - trombone
Jon Irabagon - tenor, mezzo-soprano, sopranino, soprillo, & mezzo-soprano
saxophones & alto clarinet
Davy Lazar - trumpet, piccolo trumpet & cornet
Mat Maneri - viola
Ava Mendoza - guitar
Matt Nelson - tenor & alto saxophones
Brandon Seabrook - guitar & tenor banjo

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