Title: Find Letter X Artist: Kate Gentile Label: Pi Recordings Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 808713010022 Genre: Jazz Release Date: 2023-10-13 Number of Discs: 3
Find Letter X, the eponymous release from the Brooklyn-based band led by drummer/composer Kate Gentile, features saxophonist Jeremy Viner, pianist Matt Mitchell, and bassist Kim Cass. Gentile's 2021 release Snark Horse - co-led with Mitchell - was a gargantuan six-volume set that Downbeat called "Monumental... Creating an abstract galaxy from scratch, they sound like they know every black hole and supercluster in the place." The similarly-ambitious new work - across three densely-packed CDs housed in a custom-designed package - bursts with inventive details and dramatic arcs. Each disc contains a distinct thematic identity while simultaneously contributing to a larger narrative trajectory. Meticulously-constructed and highly intentional, Find Letter X is a wide-ranging exploration of diverse sonics and contrasting forms: a vibrant feedback loop of virtuosic improvisational and compositional ingenuity entirely unified by Gentile's singular musical aesthetic.
Tracks: 1.1 Iridian Alphabet 1.2 Pulse Capsule 1.3 Laugh Magic 1.4 Find Letter X 1.5 Subsurface 1.6 Recursive Access 1.7 The New Basics 1.8 In Casks 1.9 Ore Whorls 1.10 Stelliform Lamellae 1.11 Prismatoid 1.12 Contrarianism 1.13 Prescience 1.14 Erinome 1.15 The 5th Clone 1.16 Invisible Wolves 2.1 Senselessness 2.2 R.A.T.B.O.T.B 2.3 Raze 2.4 Nine Fog 2.5 Garbage Juice... Va Zisroas 2.6 Blankeye 2.7 Zislupme Tnilyive Tsoam Ath 2.8 Clovd 8 2.9 Smother 2.10 Importunate Babble 2.11 Four-Bladed 2.12 Dissolution 2.13 Offing 2.14 Jupiter Vs. the Sun 3.1 The Cosmic Brain 3.2 Psychoradiant 3.3 Clarion Fluorescent 3.4 Q Quiet 3.5 Eternal Lapse 3.6 Bask 3.7 Effulgence 3.8 Spectrescope 3.9 Quantum Exits 3.10 Epitome 3.11 Open Epoch 3.12 Synaptic Blazes 3.13 Supergiant Inciner
