Robin Holcomb - The Point Of It All (2010/2015) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Husband and wife pianists Robin Holcomb and Wayne Horvitz team up with Vancouver quartet Talking Pictures on this album that defies easy categorization. As the title suggests, there’s a lesson of sorts being expounded. There’s certainly something archaic about it, almost as if these songs had already existed as prototypes in another time and place, a lost America of long ago. Yet this music is very much about now, a symbolic distillation of the present.

"… improvisations and investigations into the heart and soul of experimental jazz … the composer-singer-pianist takes journeys to carnival-like atmospheres and the natural world with equal aplomb." - PopMatters.com

"… represents a fuller consolidation, coming closest to representing her varied musical interests. Lyrically, as ever, Holcomb's messages, while strong, are delivered gently, without a big stick. Expansive and deeply resonant, but in the quietest fashion possible … perfectly melds Holcomb's divergent interests, with a group of musicians who seem perfectly connected to her evocative world on an empathic, telepathic level." - All About Jazz

Tracklist:

01. Interlude (6:01)
02. The Sweetest Thing (3:02)
03. Buttermilk Hill Suite (6:35)
04. Sad Waltz (6:00)
05. The Point of It All (3:34)
06. Couch Alternate (alternate) (3:45)
07. Tiny Swing (3:10)
08. Against the Drift (3:12)
09. 10.15.07 (7:56)
10. After the Gold Rush (4:15)
11. The Scavenger Song (4:06)
12. Electrical Storm (4:35)
13. The Rain (10:14)



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