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376: BRANDON LOPEZ – INGRID LAUBROCK – TOM RAINEY. No Es La Playa

Intakt Recording #376/ 2022

Ingrid Laubrock: Saxophone
Brandon Lopez: Bass
Tom Rainey: Drums

Recorded April 25, 2021, at GSI studios, New York, by Jason Rostkowski.

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Dreamlike experiences. Sparks fly and a musical interaction works without arrangement or plan. An organic musical process develops out of intuition alone. The same magic happens every time.
When Brandon Lopez, a New Yorker with Puerto Rican roots, joi- ned the duo of Saxophoneophonist Ingrid Laubrock and drummer Tom Rai- ney, this wasn’t simply about adding a plus one to the Laubrock – Rainey duo. Thanks to the young bassist (born 1988), already collaborating with musicians from Dave Liebman via Zeena Par- kins to John Zorn, a new dynamic has formed involving all three. In this triangular constellation a different balance is achieved and an altered play of energies. They are clearly on the same wavelength, with a similar sense and understanding of overarching form, inner structure, timing, feeling, energy, density, transparency and volume.
"Right from the first note the chemistry between them was right. The interplay between the three worked so effortlessly and naturally it bordered on telepathy. The three want to keep up the momentum and capture the magic moment," writes Christoph Wagner in the liner notes.

Album Credits

Cover Photo: Ingrid Laubrock
Graphic design: Jonas Schoder
Liner notes: Christoph Wagner
Photo: Cecilia Lopez

All music by Brandon Lopez (BMI), Ingrid Laubrock (PRS/MCPS) and Tom Rainey (BMI). Recorded April 25, 2021, at GSI studios, New York, by Jason Rostkowski. Mixed at Casa Papí, Malmö, by Jon Lipscomb. Mastered at Hardstudios Winterthur by Michael Brändli. Produced by Lopez/Laubrock/ Rainey and Intakt Records. Published by Intakt Records, P. O. Box, 8024 Zürich, Switzerland.

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John Sharpe
All About Jazz Blog

The addition of bassist Brandon Lopez to the recognized duo of saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and drummer Tom Rainey provides proof once more, though maybe not in the manner Aristotle envisaged, that the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts. The liners allude to the success of the threesome's first gig at Park Slope's Barbes in 2017, and the reasons for their satisfaction can be heard all over the outstanding, unpredictable and empathetic interchange across the six studio improvs contained on No Es La Playa.

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/john-sharpes-best-jazz-albums-of-2022

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Chris Searle
Morning Star Online

A MARVELLOUSLY inventive trio here: saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock born in Stadtlohn, Germany; Los Angeles drummer Tom Rainey and the young composer and insurgent of the bass Brandon Lopez, a New Yorker of Puerto Rican roots. Together they concoct and converse like three sonic sorcerers.
Rainey is some drummer, conjuring every conceivable surface with a transformative artistry. The New York studio engineer picks up every iota of his sound. Laubrock plays a skittering soprano saxophone on the title track: all through When the Island is a Shipwreck her tenor sax rasps, resonates and guffaws.
Alongside and below all this is Lopez’s gambolling bass. “I try to blind everything out and be totally in the moment,” he says, and such moments abound. His strings bounce sorbo-like through Saturnian Staring and his bow-work crackles in Camposanto Chachacha. The finale, The Black Bag of Want, speaks for us all: a scintillating threesome.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/album-reviews-with-chris-searle-november-28-2022

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Jean Buzelin
Cultur Jazz Magazine

Couple musical reconnu parmi les plus grands et les plus importants de notre temps, la saxophoniste ténor/soprano Ingrid Laubrock et le batteur Tom Rainey aiment se confronter à des invités amis (voir leur dizaine de disques chez Intakt entre autres). En voici un nouveau : le contrebassiste d’origine portoricaine Brandon Lopez. Comme souvent, ils se lancent sans filet dans six improvisations collectives, dans la lignée des grandes envolées du free jazz. Mais qu’on ne s’y trompe pas, il ne s’agit pas de retrouver le son d’une époque révolue, mais de poursuivre une certaine idée de la création. C’est une musique de maintenant, exigeante, difficile et formidablement bien jouée. Il s’en dégage une réelle fraîcheur.

https://culturejazz.fr/spip.php?article3852

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Pat Youngspiel
Concerto Magazine

Saxophonistin Ingrid Laubrock und Schlagzeuger Tom Rainey sind nicht nur ein Begriff sie musizieren seit mehreren Jahrzehnten gemeinsam in einer Vielzahl von Formationen. Dazu gehören unter anderem Laubrocks letzte Veröffentlichung für Kammerorchester und kleines Ensemble, „Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt", sie spielen aber auch im Rahmen ihres Oktetts zusammen sowie als Teil von Anti-House, mit Sleepthief oder auch in Tom Raineys Trio und dessen Standards interpretie-rendem Quintett Obbligato allesamt unter dem Labeldach von Intakt Records. In seinem freien improvisatorischen Ansatz knüpft „No Es La Playa" nahtlos an das vergangene Werk des Duos an; neu im Bunde ist dabei Bassist Brandon Lopez. Ob mit Bogen oder pizzicato, Lopez' Spiel poltert und quietscht zu seinem eigenen Puls oder besser: Impuls. Dieses Triogefüge lebt nämlich davon. Sie sind meist spontan, aus dem Moment heraus geboren und treffen stets auf ein Echo Impulse bilden das zentrale Gewebe dieser Musik. Wer jenen avantgardistische Stil, den Saxophonist Evan Parker mitbegründet hat, zu schätzen weiß, wird auch hier auf seine Kosten kommen.

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Guy Peters
Jazz'N'More Magazine

Het voorbije decennium zijn Ingrid Laubrock en Tom Rainey uitgegroeid tot het ongekroonde koningskoppel van de avant-garde jazz, een tweeeenheid met telepathische vermogens. De jongere bassist Brandon Lopez laat zich daar allerminst door intimideren. Integendeel, hij neemt letterlijk plaats in tussen de muzikanten en ontpopt zich tot een even assertieve als empathische gesprekspartner, of het nu gebeurt met strijkstok of pizzicato. Laubrock combineert tenor- en sopraansax, passeert via Braxtoniaanse staccatospurtjes en Lacy-eske uitweidingen, maar is vooral voortdurend verwikkeld in een conversatie-in-het-moment met de onophoudelijk inventieve ideeënstroom van Rainey, zoals steeds meesterlijk zonder te epateren. En als Little Distance Before maximaal gebruikt maakt van ruimte, dan is afsluiter The Black Bag of Want een kolkend orgelpunt.

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