Two trios, "Black" with cellist Chris Eubank and violist Dan Ruccia, and "White" with trombonist Jeb Bishop and saxophonist Laurent Estoppey, each with the foundation of bassist David Menestres, balancing experience in free improvisation and compositional music to create an exciting hybrid, a chamber collective of tumult and control.
Includes two CDs in white or black sleeves, a postcard, and liner notes.
Label: Not On Label Catalog ID: None Squidco Product Code: 25327
Format: 2 CDRs Condition: New Released: 2015 Country: USA Packaging: Cardboard Mailer w/ fold out inserts Recorded at The Store, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 29 th and 30th, 2014, by Dan Lilley.
"Polyorchard's melodies, or lack there of, propagate a cacophony of the absurd while evoking the sound of ritualistic incantation. Morphing from a trio to a double dectet, Polyorchard's classically-trained musicians channel twentieth century sound and performance poet Bob Cobbing, to the atmospheric presence of convention-breaking free jazz pioneers. Color Theory in Black and White is something altogether different. Black, theoretically, absorbs light but is absent of color. The listener is left with a visual impression, an experience. The timbre of the thaBlack: Chris Eubank-cello David Menestres-bass Dan Ruccia-viola
White: Jeb Bishop-trombone Laurent Estoppey-saxophones David Menestres-bass
"Polyorchard's melodies, or lack there of, propagate a cacophony of the absurd while evoking the sound of ritualistic incantation. Morphing from a trio to a double dectet, Polyorchard's classically-trained musicians channel twentieth century sound and performance poet Bob Cobbing, to the atmospheric presence of convention-breaking free jazz pioneers.
Color Theory in Black and White is something altogether different. Black, theoretically, absorbs light but is absent of color. The listener is left with a visual impression, an experience. The timbre of the three stringed instruments suggests an other-wordly presence; a schizophrenic dissonance.
White's brass, woodwind, and strings begin with erratic pressure waves that unsystematically crescendo as quickly as they decline. Somewhere I got lost behind linguistics, only to realize that this album purposefully denies language as a human construct and forces the listener to close their eyes to focus on the semiotics of entoptic phenomena and the mindfulness of listening.
Polyorchard's Color Theory in Black and White produces a chiaroscuro of tonality allowing the listener to refine their perceptions of the influence sound has on the human optical system...."-Emily Leon, from the liner notes
ree stringed instruments suggests an other-wordly presence; a schizophrenic dissonance. White's brass, woodwind, and strings begin with erratic pressure waves that unsystematically crescendo as quickly as they decline. Somewhere I got lost behind linguistics, only to realize that this album purposefully denies language as a human construct and forces the listener to close their eyes to focus on the semiotics of entoptic phenomenaand the mindfulness of listening. Polyorchard's Color Theory in Black and White produces a chiaroscuro of tonality allowing the listener to refine their perceptions of the influence sound has on the human optical system...."-Emily Leon, linear notes Includes two CDs in white or black sleeves, a postcard, and liner notes.