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355: INGRID LAUBROCK. Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt – Music For Chamber Orchestra And Small Ensemble (Double Album)

Intakt Recording #355/ 2020


DREAMT TWICE CD 1
EOS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

SOLOISTS:
Sam Pluta: Electronics
Cory Smythe: Keyboard
Robert Landfermann: Double Bass
Tom Rainey: Drums
Ingrid Laubrock: Saxophone

TWICE DREAMT CD 2
INGRID LAUBROCK SMALL ENSEMBLE

Ingrid Laubrock: Saxophone
Cory Smyhte: Piano
Sam Pluta: Electronics

GUESTS:
Adam Matlock: Accordion
Josh Modney: Violin
Zeena Parkins: Electric Harp

DREAMT TWICE CD 1: Recorded December 5 and 6, 2019, by Brigitte Angerhausen at Riverside Studios, Köln. TWICE DREAMT CD 2: Recorded December 22 and 23, 2019, by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, NY.

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The album Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt follows Ingrid Laubrock's landmark orchestral album Contemporary Chaos Practices from 2018 (Intakt CD 314). Ingrid Laubrock presents on this double album five compositions in double version. On the first CD, the EOS Cham- ber Orchestra Cologne interprets Laubrock's compositions. The soloists are Cory Smythe (piano), Sam Pluta (electronics), Robert Landfermann (bass), Tom Rainey (drums) and Ingrid Laubrock (Saxophoneo- phone). On a second CD of the double album a filigree ensemble around the core trio of Ingrid Laubrock, Cory Smythe, Sam Pluta and the guests Adam Matlock, Josh Modney and Zeena Parkins play the same five compositions.
The two CDs of Laubrock's works contrast, diverge and complement each other. Ingrid Laubrock writes: “While the small-group versions were composed first, I did not just re-arrange those compositions for the orchestra but rather re-imagined them. As I wrote the large-scale pieces, I often zoomed-in on a detail in a small-group version to gene- rate a materially different large-group piece.”
As a whole, the two CDs paint fascinating musical panoramas, inspired by the composer's dream worlds, characterized by Laubrock's ability to compose and the individual colors and shades of the soloists.

Album Credits

Cover photos: Ingrid Laubrock
Graphic design: Paul Bieri
Photos: Mimi Chakarova (Small Ensemble), Falko Alexander (EOS Chamber Orchestra)
Liner notes: Ingrid Laubrock

DREAMT TWICE CD 1
EOS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Recorded December 5 and 6, 2019, by Brigitte Angerhausen at Riverside Studios, Köln. Assisted by Nick Benoy. Mixed May 11-16, 2020, by Ron Saint Germain, at Saint’s Place. Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk, Peekskill, NY.

TWICE DREAMT CD 2
INGRID LAUBROCK SMALL ENSEMBLE

Recorded December 22 and 23, 2019, by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, NY. Mixed February 27-29, 2020, by Ron Saint Germain, at Saint’s Place. Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk, Peekskill, NY.
CD 1 and CD 2: Compositions and copyright by Ingrid Laubrock (PRS/MCPS). Recording produced by David Breskin and Ingrid Laubrock. CD produced by Intakt
Records, Patrik Landolt, Anja Illmaier, Florian Keller.

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Jean Buzelin
Cultur Jazz Magazine

D’une tout autre envergure se présente le nouveau projet de la saxophoniste (ténor et soprano) et compositrice Ingrid Laubrock, désormais bien connue des amateurs curieux et éclairés. Renouvelant l’expérience de Contemporary Chaos Practices, Laubrock a écrit une suite, Dream Twice, en cinq parties basée sur les “rêves”, en l’occurrence le souvenir de la rencontre avec un médium anglais qui communiquait avec certains morts. Opération risquée et ambitieuse qu’elle a réussi de main de maître en convoquant le EOS Chamber Orchestra, dix-huit musiciens placés sous la baguette de Susanne Blumenthal, et en invitant quelques solistes, dont elle-même, Sam Pluta (electronics), Cory Smythe (piano et clavier en quarts de tons), Robert Landfermann (contrebasse) et son mari Tom Rainey (batterie) qui s’intègrent parfaitement à l’ensemble. Le résultat est somptueux. Son travail d’écriture/organisation très fin et ouvert joue sur l’espace, les nuances, les couleurs, la profondeur de champ grâce à l’articulation, l’association des timbres et la répartition des masses sonores, et se déploie en nappes qui se superposent. Aucune lourdeur, aucune emphase, bien au contraire, la musique respire et nous entraîne vers des horizons inouïs.
Les mêmes compositions se présentent dans un ordre différent dans un second disque, Twice Dreamt, en version trio (Cory Smythe et Sam Pluta) avec trois invités : Adam Matlock (accordéon), Josh Modney (violon) et Zeena Parkins (harpe électrique), tandis que la saxophoniste fait courir son jeu sinueux et extrêmement maîtrisé, notamment au niveau du son. Si l’on voulait absolument simplifier les choses, on dirait que le premier disque présenterait une œuvre de musique contemporaine, et le second, sa version jazz. Mais ne me faites pas dire ce que je n’ai pas dit. Pour ma part, c’est un (double) disque comme on n’en entend pas souvent. Magnifique!

https://www.culturejazz.fr/spip.php?article3689

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John Fordham
Jazzwise Magazine

Ingrid Laubrock, the German-born, New York-based saxophonist and composer, set out a new marker for the lively relationship between contemporary orchestral music and jazz-rooted improvisation with Intakt's thoughtfully-titled 2018 release, Contemporary Chaos Practices. Now comes Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt, an adventure born of that encounter, in which Laubrock presents five pieces played in two versions - on CD1 by Cologne's EOS Chamber Orchestra plus improvising soloists, and on CD2 by the composer and the same improvisers operating as the Small Ensemble.

Laubrock has long been drawn to that shifting interface between through-composed music, jazz, and sound-bending experimentation, and this might be her most satisfying fusion of those volatile ingredients yet. The orchestral 'Dreamt Twice' accelerates from pattering percussion, horn-blurts and Cory Smythe's tumbling free-piano whirls to big-ensemble chordal surges and back to pensively probing tenor sax reflections, and 'Snorkel Cows' similarly emerges from torrential piano streams and skittering abstract sounds to sax reflections against soft strings glimmers. 'I Never Liked That Guy' arrives in woodwind murmurs and isolated percussive chord-exclamations in the orchestral version, hovering piano trills and startled soprano sax outbursts in the Small Ensemble, while 'Down The Mountain, Down The Mountain' is solemnly searching and deep orchestrally, electronically slithery and then tentatively and sometimes anxiously dreamy for the small group. Laubrock seems to be turning composition from improv vocabularies, and improv as outcrops of intricate written materials, into new languages with this impressive release

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