Bruckmann, Kyle / Wrack / Cracked Refraction
| Album: | Cracked Refraction | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Bruckmann, Kyle / Wrack | Added: | Feb 2012 | |
| Label: | Porter Records | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2012-03-02 | Pull Date: | 2012-05-05 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Apr 29 | Apr 15 | Apr 8 | Apr 1 | Mar 11 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 27, 2012: | Memory Select
The Dishevelator |
4. | Mar 30, 2012: | No Cover, $5 Minimum
Njbc |
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| 2. | Apr 10, 2012: | Rebop
Njbc |
5. | Mar 27, 2012: | Rebop
Notwithstanding |
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| 3. | Apr 03, 2012: | Rebop
The Dishevelator |
6. | Mar 05, 2012: | Ghost Trees
Njbc |
Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2012-02-26
Reviewed 2012-02-26
KYLE BRUCKMANN’S WRACK: Cracked Refraction
Porter, 2012
AVANT-GARDE – Oboist Bruckmann is based in Oakland, but he maintains Chicago roots through this improvising chamber quintet. It’s an unusual sound with low reeds, strings and drums, and compositions built up from the juxtaposition and contrast of small, discrete elements: percolating rhythmic phrases and free improv solos set against forceful rhythms, modern-classical motifs or lazily drifting soundscapes.
Fo’s Picks: 2, 4, 5, 7
1. 5:45 – driving, rhythmic & spiky, a variety of interludes, brisk free horn solo
2. 12:56 – calm intro, then busy drums; percolating little groove under cool oboe solo; calms for brooding viola/bass but clarinet gets wild
3. 9:13 – free improv drifts into a slow, methodical exploration of dark places
4. 8:25 – slow horns in careful conversation over wide open bass/drums
5. 7:13 – oblique lines over fast drums, horn solos break free & wail
6. 10:49 – yikes… sour dissonances over a maddening bounce and rising drones/clatter; quiet squeaks dominate the middle third
7. 9:09 – gentle, exotic melody with marimba, drifts in open space
[ Fo ] - February 2012
Porter, 2012
AVANT-GARDE – Oboist Bruckmann is based in Oakland, but he maintains Chicago roots through this improvising chamber quintet. It’s an unusual sound with low reeds, strings and drums, and compositions built up from the juxtaposition and contrast of small, discrete elements: percolating rhythmic phrases and free improv solos set against forceful rhythms, modern-classical motifs or lazily drifting soundscapes.
Fo’s Picks: 2, 4, 5, 7
1. 5:45 – driving, rhythmic & spiky, a variety of interludes, brisk free horn solo
2. 12:56 – calm intro, then busy drums; percolating little groove under cool oboe solo; calms for brooding viola/bass but clarinet gets wild
3. 9:13 – free improv drifts into a slow, methodical exploration of dark places
4. 8:25 – slow horns in careful conversation over wide open bass/drums
5. 7:13 – oblique lines over fast drums, horn solos break free & wail
6. 10:49 – yikes… sour dissonances over a maddening bounce and rising drones/clatter; quiet squeaks dominate the middle third
7. 9:09 – gentle, exotic melody with marimba, drifts in open space
[ Fo ] - February 2012
Track Listing
| 1. | Exacerbator | 5. | The Dishevelator | |||
| 2. | Notwithstanding | 6. | A Shambles | |||
| 3. | Ratchetforms | 7. | Njbc | |||
| 4. | Fair To Middling | . |