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Anthony Braxton Saxophone Quartet

Anthony Braxton: alto, soprano, sopranino saxophone, electronics;
James Fei: sopranino, alto saxophone
Chris Jonas: alto, tenor saxophone
Ingrid Laubrock: soprano, tenor saxophone (disc 2-3-4)
André Vida: baritone, tenor, soprano saxophone (disc 1)

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4CD, 40 pages booklet with photos and an essay in english and Italian by Mario Gamba
“Lorraine is the name of a new music prototype. This is a music system that governs the ‘sonic winds’ of breath. There is a stillness in the air and the ghosts of the past commands the space. Memories and shadows of ‘beingness’ adorn the ornamentation of old ruins and blessed relics. Sound castles in the sky – long forgotten experiences have returned with love and humility. Lorraine has come home to birth a renewal and awareness of the other. Lorraine the traveller” - Anthony Braxton Composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton is recognised as one of the seminal figures of the music of the second half of the 20th century and of the beginning of the 21st. Expressing himself through an enormous variety of mediums (from his pioneering solo performances of the late 1960s, to quartets, to large orchestras, to more recent works, such as the multimedia cycle of operas Trillium and the gigantic environmental performances of the Sonic Genome Project), Braxton has opened with his work new conceptual and technical paths in the trans-African and trans-European musical traditions, finding a highly original synthesis between jazz-based improvisation and the complexity of classical-contemporary music.

AngelicA Festival previously hosted Braxton in 2006 with Richard Teitelbaum, in 2007 with Cecil Taylor's Historical Quartet, and in 2018 for the premiere of his duo project with the harpist Jacqueline Kerrod – documented by the cd album Duo (Bologna) 2018 (IDA 039); and this new 4-CD box release (IDA 056) represents a further degree of exceptionality by documenting the entire 2022 European tour (Vilnius, Bologna, Antwerp, Rome) with which Braxton launched his new project for four saxophones. An almost unprecedented lineup for the composer, as among the over 300 recordings under his name featuring the mos.......
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