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Lauren Newton - Joelle Leandre - Urs Leimgruber: Out Of Sound

Read "Out Of Sound" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


This estimable trio featuring, bassist, Joelle Leandre (France), saxophonist, Urs Leimgruber (Switzerland) and vocalist, Lauren Newton (USA) explore various harmonic ranges, amid densely formulated motifs on this 2002 release. With an average track length of three and one-half minutes, the artists frame many of their themes upon sleep-related events via song titles such as, “Sleeptalk,” and “The Insomniacs.” Therefore, the band sets the table for a series of abstract soundscapes, marked by Leimgruber’s squeaks, pops, micro themes, Newton’s wordless vocalise ...

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Lauren Newton: Filigree

Read "Filigree" reviewed by Robert Spencer


Listening to Lauren Newton sing is like listening to Cathy Berberian, Ella Fitzgerald, and Yoko Ono, if someone cut up tapes of these three and mixed them together in small bits without transition. She is an abstract expressionist singer, working in the realm of pure sound with a voice that is pure in its beauty and startling in the things she'll choose to do with it. Her ability to blend her voice with instrumental sounds is uncanny, and led her ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

The Minimalism of...

Hat Hut Records
2011

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A Notion in Perpetual...

Hat Hut Records
2010

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2 Souls in Seoul

Leo Records
2008

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Soundsongs

Leo Records
2007

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Soundsongs

Leo Records
2006

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