OUT NOW: Saccata Quartet "Septendecim" LP & digital. Nels Cline / Chris Corsano / Darin Gray / Glenn Kotche. Live debut this Sunday at
@solidsoundfest North Adams, MA.
While Saccata Quartet's music could probably well be called free jazz, drone, dark ambient, post-noise or kosmische-noir, it should not be labeled too rigorously under any one of those banners. As a work of four lauded instrumentalists, the album refreshingly makes instrumentation seem like a secondary concern. Their sound, be it loud and undeniably wall-like, or hazy and quiet, almost fog-like, comes from a place of democratic free expression of four musicians coming together on their own terms, not limited by a band formation or deadlines for an album timeline.
"Avant-hard jazz from the impressive attacking foils Nels Cline, Chris Corsano, Darin Gray and Glenn Kotche, otherwise known as the Saccata Quartet. Stretching, squalling, tearing, drawing wild intensity and ariel droning and alien broadcasts from their apparatus, the free-jazz foursome sound like a harrowing and galloping, scattering merger of Faust, Roscoe Mitchell, Sam Rivers, Zappa and AEOC in a dense experimental world of scares and uncertainty. What’s not to love about that."
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Composed & performed by Nels Cline, Chris Corsano, Darin Gray, Glenn Kotche
Recorded by TJ Doherty at The Loft, Chicago
Mixed by Pat Burns with Chris Corsano and Glenn Kotche
Mastered by Pat Burns at Thunderlab, Chicago
Vinyl cut by JSA at Timmion Cutting, Helsinki
Design by Matti Nives
"Septendecim" is available now via Bandcamp & your favourite record shops.
