Saturn Sings

by Mary Halvorson Quintet

Saturn Sings cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 5 October 2010
  • Label: Firehouse 12
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:06:14
  • Community rating: 3.99/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Guitarist Mary Halvorson expands her standard trio to a quintet, adding alto saxophone and trumpet to navigate her highly idiosyncratic compositions. 'Saturn Sings' showcases her distinct use of pitch-shifting pedals and fractured, unpredictable melodic intervals.

Genres

Descriptors: dissonant, improvisation, avant-garde, improvised, guitars, complex

Tracklist

  1. Leak Over Six Five (No. 14) (06:44)
  2. Sequential Tears In It (No. 20) (06:02)
  3. Mile High Like (No. 16) (04:48)
  4. Moon Traps In Seven Rings (No. 17) (09:24)
  5. Sea Seizure (No. 19) (05:24)
  6. Crack In Sky (No. 11) (08:48)
  7. Right Size Too Little (No. 12) (07:31)
  8. Crescent White Singe (No. 13) (07:27)
  9. Cold Mirrors (No. 15) (05:38)
  10. Saturn Sings (No. 18) (04:28)

Credits

  • Kendell Smith - composed by
  • Tarsame Singh Jarnail - composed by
  • Craig Halvorson - illustration

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