Laubrock, Ingrid - Purposing The Air 2 x CDs
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28-PYOC3839.2
"This is an ‘essential’ album, one that should not be filed away in your record collection but rather placed among your books, for it is pure intellectual nourishment, a profoundly fascinating experience." Paris Moves
"Impressive" - Mike Shanley/Jazz Times
"Purposing The Air" is a recording of extreme quality." Thierry de Clemensat/All About Jazz
“My double album Purposing The Air with 60 songs based on Erica Hunt's poem "Mood Librarian - a poem in koan" is now out. The music features Fay Victor, Mariel Roberts, Sara Serpa, Matt Mitchell, Theo Bleckmann, Ben Monder, Rachel Calloway and Ari Streisfeld.
I grew up in a literary household with parents who paid close attention to the written word. My father was a Goethe scholar, and my mother often read to us, pointing out the beauty of the sound of words. I have always felt an affinity for poetry. I appreciate its emotional power to move us and to make us think less literally.
I prefer playing original music by living composers and composing for musicians I know personally. When choosing the text for this project, I decided to follow the same approach. I met Erica Hunt at a party in 2019, and we had a fascinating conversation about her poetry. So her work immediately came to mind when I started looking for a text for this project. The poem, “Mood Librarian - a poem in koan’ in Erica’s collection Jump the Clock stood out to me. It’s a collection of sixty micro poetic fragments—cryptic, intuitively relatable, sometimes funny, and, true to the nature of koans, open-ended. Making this record has been a total labor of love over the past 3+ years.”
- LabelPyroclastic
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