Warblepeck
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Personel:
- Fred Lonberg-Hold, Cello
- John Hollenbeck, Drums
Tracks:
- 1 - Warblepeck
- 2 - Jackhat 1
- 3 - Two Shadows
- 4 - Waiting Inside
- 5 - Fly on Wall/Remolino
- 6 - Anemone
- 7 - Anemone Vamp
- 8 - Sky Church
- 9 - Scrbble Boy
- 10 - Jackhat 2
- 11 - Chicotaso
Warblepeck Review from All About Jazz
By Troy Collins
A ubiquitous presence in New York's fertile jazz scene, saxophonist Tony Malaby has appeared on over fifty albums since Sabino (Arabesque, 2000), his debut as a leader. With unfaltering drive and boundless creativity, his impassioned playing has graced numerous Downtown collectives, with early stints spent in Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra and Paul Motian's Electric Be-Bop Band.
The unconventional instrumentation featured on Warblepeck is unique in Malaby's budding discography, especially for an artist usually found fronting traditional small acoustic combos. Joined by avant cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and melodic percussionist John Hollenbeck, the unorthodox yet versatile combination of Lonberg-Holm's electronic EFX and Hollenbeck's arsenal of exotic percussion reveals a session rich in kaleidoscopic textures and tones....
Warblepeck Review from thecelebritycafe.com
Tony Malaby has devised an avant-garde hybrid of jazz that circulates in a haunting manner filtering out from his latest album, Warblepeck. It’s hypnotic with its tones and array of musical sounds that are blended together to make for diverse tracks. Warblepeck possesses a hypnotic stronghold over us with its full bodied galore of sounds that are captivating. Malaby’s clunky yet strangely arousing music becomes a stunning visual and displays impeccable textures.
We are sent into a trance or an enchanting dreamlike state. Warblepeck has a mystical, cinematic appeal to it that may cast us into a wandering delirium in search for answers. Malaby has a brilliant sense of inventiveness as he brings us bundles of energy in little bubbles that expand from the fabric of traditional jazz. He’s got an auxiliary of instruments that complement each other, displaying a bolstering luster that seems to offset the norm. The clicks and clanks give jazz an updated and minor futuristic sound. Malaby provides a fascinating display with many facets and layers...
Reviewer: John Berkowitz
thecelebritycage.com
Tony Malaby Cello Trio - Warblepeck (Songlines, 2008)
By Roberto CurtisSaxophonist Tony Malaby--known for his ominously playful composition style--has teamed up with New York contemporary drummer John Hollenbeck and avant garde cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm to create Warblepeck, an album that is as experimental as it is fun.
Billed as the Tony Malaby Cello Trio, the group’s virtuosity creeps up behind the obvious ingenuity and body slams you with sonic indulgence. With Lonberg-Holm’s berimbau-hammering techniques on the cello strings and Hollenbeck’s eerie children’s polyrhythmic marimba, title track “Warblepeck” sounds like a twisted, acid-induced stumble through a house of mirrors.
Malaby’s flawless technique pierces through Lonberg-Holm’s electronic arsenal of chirps and buzzes and a meandering marimba on “Jackhat 1.” Though impossible to say who’s in the driver’s seat, Malaby’s command of the tenor saxophone’s altissimo register is remarkably tight as he dances through the three-way improvisation. It may just sound like noise to the undiscerning ear, but rest assured there is method and beauty in the mayhem....
RVAJazz
Warblepeck Review from the Downtown Music Gallery
This is a Hybrid SACD (H-SACD) which means it is playable on ordinary CD players as well] Featuring Tony Malaby on tenor & soprano saxes, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello & electronics and John Hollenbeck on drums, marimba, xylophone and assorted percussion. What I find most interesting about this trio is that, although all members are diverse bandleaders and musicians in their own right, this trio does have a distinctive group sound. Tony Malaby can be found on more than sixty discs over the past decade, collaborating with a unique plethora of artists like Mario Pavone, Kris Davis, GeorgeSchuller, Basement Research, Mark Helias, Satoko Fujii, a fine trio with his partner, Angelica Sanchez and leading his own bands. Chicago-based cellist, Fred Lonberg-Holm, also rarely rests and works with the likes of the Vandermark 5, Peter Brotzmann, Axel Dorner, Joe McPhee, Paul Rutherford, John Butcher and the Flatlands Collective. John Hollenbeck is a wonderful composer and player and leads the Claudia Quintet, his own orchestra and he has worked with Theo Bleckman, Satoko Fuji, Scott Fields, Achim Kaufmann and Cuong Vu....
Warblepeck Review from the Chicago Reader
By Peter Margasak
For next week's paper I've written a Critic's Choice about upcoming gigs at the Hungry Brain (10/19) and the Chicago Cultural Center (10/20) by New York saxophonist Tony Malaby, bassist Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten, and drummer Nasheet Waits; in it I discuss two of Malaby's recent trio recordings. What I didn't get around to was his very different Cello Trio, which celebrates the release of a brand-new album called Warblepeck (Songlines) Wednesday night at the Hideout. It was recorded earlier this year with percussionist John Hollenbeck (Claudia Quintet) and cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, who'll both join Malaby here.
The album alternates between tender, lyric pieces and open-ended exercises, and aside from tunes by Bill Frisell, Angelica Sanchez, and Eivind Opsvik, Malaby composed everything. Throughout it's marked by exquisite attention to textural intricacies, from the puckers and pops Malaby wrings from his saxophones to the delicate melodic counterpoint Hollenbeck lays down on xylophone, marimba, or glockenspiel (sometimes while drumming)....