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1.	Constellating 08:28	buy track
2.	Languor 06:08	buy track
3.	Accord 03:06	buy track
4.	Televiewer 07:35	buy track
5.	Scrawl 03:38	buy track
6.	Mockingbird 06:33	buy track
7.	Negatives 02:29	buy track
8.	Lovescar 07:02	buy track

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released April 15, 2006

Anthony Burr - bass clarinet
Oscar Noriega - bass clarinet, clarinet
Chris Speed - clarinet

recorded June 20 and 21 2005 at the NaCL Theater, Highland Lake, NY by Anthony Burr
mixed by Anthony Burr
mastered by Doug Henderson

This trio creates an acoustic ambient music of unusual grace and beauty, redefining the clarinet in improvised/new music. Improvisation is the basis of their their music, which bypasses predetermined strategies to concentrate on the organic, seamless, sound of the trio as a single entity. The players have the experience, poise and selflessness to keep the attention on this group dynamic, and to tease it out into compelling and highly cohesive pieces. The album was recorded in a resonant old church (in upstate NY) surrounded by nature, an environment that inspired the music's subtle shifts in timbre and pitch, enhancing the dreamy yet intense mood throughout the trio’s eight pieces.

THE WIRE 
The first release from this new Brooklyn label unites Anthony Burr, Oscar Noriega and Chris Speed – three of New York’s most adventurous jazz and Improv clarinettists – in a taut 45 minute session where structures reproduce themselves in the moment.
The CD’s artwork gives an idea of how the process works. On the front cover the words “The Clarinets” are gently abstracted into graphic patterning, like late Mondrian. Turn the cover over and the lines become disjointed, while on the facing panel the design becomes so complex that the original syntax is lost. The opening track, “Constellating”, operates similarly – seemingly random sounds are funelled into a structure that’s given impetus and accrues complexity. The sounds have an aloof quality more reminiscent of Scelsi than music with its roots in jazz. But Oscar Noriega’s microtonally inflected clarinet adds an attractive vulnerability as it massages against the prevailing temper of the tunings.
The fifth track, “Scrawl”, breaks the largely static house style. Folksy lines delight in rubbing each other up the wrong way, and contradictory ideas work together to create an energy that powers the short construct onwards. The final track, “Lovescar”, returns to rarefied textures, bringing the project to a satisfactory conclusion, perhaps too much so – so many perfect arch-like structures creates a certain predictability. But with playing as beautiful as this, that really is splitting hairs.
Philip Clark

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The Clarinets Brooklyn, New York

Anthony Burr
Oscar Noriega
Chris Speed

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