Patricia Brennan - More Touch (2022)

Patricia Brennan
More Touch
2022 - Pyroclastic Records: PR 22
https://www.pyroclasticrecords.com/release/more-touch/
https://patriciabrennanpyroclastic./album/more-touch

* Marcus Gilmore : drums
* Mauricio Herrera: percussion
* Kim Cass : bass
* Patricia Brennan: vibraphone, electronics, marimba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Gilmore
https://www.mauricioherreramusic.com/
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/kim-cass-mn0003292549
https://www.patriciabrennanvibes.com/

Recorded by Ron Saint Germain & Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio,
Mount Vernon, New York, USA, on March 31 & April 1, 2022.

Reviews
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By Peter Margasak
https://thequietus.com/articles/32407-tyshawn-sorey-patricia-brennan-tom-skinner

With her second album vibraphonist Patricia Brennan continues to till fresh
soil for her instrument, following up a solo recording with this unusual
quartet endeavor. While studying music in Philadelphia the Mexican native
worked in classical percussion ensembles, and in the press materials she says
she viewed this band in a similar way. She’s joined by the superb drummer
Marcus Gilmore – known well for his work in Vijay Iyer’s trio – Cuban conguero
Mauricio Herrera, and bassist Kim Cass, whom the leader mines for his complex
rhythmic agility and propulsion. Additionally, Brennan tapped into the
traditional music of her native Veracruz, a kind of sound that shares concepts
with Herrera’s Afro-Cuban grounding. Compared with the aerated explorations of
her 2021 album Maquishti, this new one is dense, distinguished by a compressed
polyrhythmic matrix. Her improvisations are tightly woven into those taut
grooves, but she consistently uses electronics to stretch and abstract her
lines, which routinely dissipate into beautifully foggy pools of sound, only to
regain clarity and continue driving forward. There are times when I wish she
would lay off the effects, and allow the gorgeous resonance of her unmediated
instrument to float over the tricky patterns sculpted by her band, but there’s
no question she’s forging a genuinely new language for the vibraphone.

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By Paul Acquaro
https://www.freejazzblog.org/2022/12/patricia-brennan-more-touch-pyroclastic.html

By Mike Jurkovic
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/more-touch-patricia-brennan-pyroclastic-records

By Filipe Freitas
https://jazztrail.net/blog/patricia-brennan-more-touch-album-review

Jazz Fun (de)
https://www.jazz-fun.de/patricia-brennan-more-touch.html

Da Riccardo Talamazzi (it)
https://offtopicmagazine.net/2023/01/12/patricia-brennan-more-touch/

Par Raphaël Benoit (fr)
https://www.citizenjazz.com/Patricia-Brennan-3481591.html

Por «Canción a quemarropa» (es)
http://www.cancionaquemarropa.es/2022/11/patricia-brennan-publica-more-touch/

Por «El intruso» (es)
https://elintruso.com/2022/09/12/patricia-brennan-presenta-more-touch/