Polyimage of Known Exits

by Tartar Lamb II

Polyimage of Known Exits cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 4 January 2011
  • Label: Ice Level
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 40:47
  • Community rating: 3.77/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Spearheaded by Toby Driver and Mia Matsumiya of Kayo Dot, this complex ensemble project defies easy categorization. Heavily utilizing trumpet, violin, and dense electric guitar layers, it is a deeply surreal, chamber-oriented descent into ominous avant-garde jazz and dark ambient soundscapes.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, atmospheric, dissonant, chamber, through-composed, suite, long-form, orchestral, conceptual

Tracklist

  1. Polyimage of Known Exits, 1st Movement (6:48)
  2. Polyimage of Known Exits, 2nd Movement (12:34)
  3. Polyimage of Known Exits, 3rd Movement (9:26)
  4. Polyimage of Known Exits, 4th Movement (11:58)

Credits

  • Tartar Lamb II - primary artist
  • Daniel Means - alto saxophone
  • Terran Olson - alto saxophone, synthesizer [synth bass]
  • David Bodie - drums
  • Masami Tomihisa - piano
  • Mia Matsumiya - violin

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