Steven Ricks – Steven Ricks & Ron Coulter: Precipitations (2023) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Steven Ricks – Steven Ricks & Ron Coulter: Precipitations (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:07:21 minutes | 725 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Panoramic Recordings

Steve Ricks and Ron Coulter are longtime collaborators, having performed experimental improvised music together in RICKSPLUND + Coulter and CRAG. Precipitations is their first recorded project as a duo, zeroing in on each of their hybrid setups, enhancing Ricks’ trombone and Coulter’s percussion with various batteries of electronics, effects pedals, and microphones. The result is a constantly percolating dialogue between two composer/performers who know each other’s language instinctively. Coulter Ricks marries noise oriented examinations with characterful instrumental playing, an engaging counterpoint between a style of phrasing that is influenced by the Chicago free jazz scene with a more technology driven exploration of granular timbres.Tap, Rattle, and Blow is an apt opener, with both the title and the musical materials serving as a presentation of the kinds of standard material we will hear coming from Ricks’ and Coulter’s instruments. Coulter interrupts burbling material on the toms with disjunct punctuations on cymbals, gradually building up concurrent layers of activity. Ricks introduces himself with truncated phrases run through a harmonizer before he lays out for a Coulter solo. A flute sample emerges midway through the track, opening up a more expansive dimension to the sonic space. Ricks lays into some bluesy material on the horn, before he adds processing that transposes the instrument down in register and adds a washy reverb, revealing haunting, underworld sonorities

Tracklist:

1-1. Steven Ricks – Tap, Rattle, and Blow (07:45)
1-2. Steven Ricks – Late Night Call (10:43)
1-3. Steven Ricks – Mechanic’s Choice (06:02)
1-4. Steven Ricks – Charming Ways (08:38)
1-5. Steven Ricks – Button Drop (07:29)
1-6. Steven Ricks – I-S3eM (16:53)
1-7. Steven Ricks – Slurry (09:48)

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