Wives, by Drumheller

Wives

by Drumheller

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1.	Drip Drop March 03:23	buy track
2.	Acrobat 02:33	buy track
3.	Underside Of A Table 04:54	buy track
4.	Skullsplitter 06:40	buy track
5.	Porch 05:14	buy track
6.	C.T. 05:53	buy track
7.	Sketch #7 05:10	buy track
8.	However Wildly We Dream 05:27	buy track
9.	Couch 05:41	buy track
10.	Mr. Spleen 04:54	buy track
11.	Calypso 04:59	buy track
12.	Sketch #5 04:22	buy track
13.	Driver Down 06:06	buy track
14.	Blues For A Bright Day 03:15	buy track

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From the well-oiled opening of the first track, "Drip Drop March" to the symmetrical ascending lines of "Couch", to the crunchy, cool "Underside of a Table" to the romantic rustling of "Skullsplitter", to the off-kilter "Acrobat" and big-swinging "Sketches 5 and 7" -- this album unfolds in all directions at once. The comfortable fit between the boozy swoon of Doug Tielli’s trombone lines, the relaxed ornaments of Brodie West’s alto saxophone, the gentlemanly love of Nick Fraser’s drumming, the swagger of Eric Chenaux’s twisted electric guitar and the deft backbone of Rob Clutton’s double bass makes Wives simmer with a gratifying mix of space and closeness, inventiveness and sensuality.

"Blues for a Bright Day" closes the album and indicates (in transparent, diffuse layers aching to resolve) the sophisticated dovetailing of melodies and experiment played here by Drumheller.

credits

released July 16, 2021

Eric Chenaux — electric guitar
Rob Clutton — double bass
Nick Fraser — drums
Doug Tielli — trombone
Brodie West — alto saxophone

Recorded by Jeff McMurrich at Halla Music, Toronto, June 2006
Mastered by Harris Newman
Design by Lewis Nicholson, Drawings by Doug Tielli.

Drumheller gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council

All compositons © SOCAN

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Rat-drifting Toronto, Ontario

Rat-drifting music searches for specificity, celebrates detail. It experiments with radical particularity and wonders about the possibilities and potentials of those experiments. If the music drifts, it does so in the hopes that the listener drifts with it—her/his imagination experimenting with the possibilities of the music as well, as they find their own route through their own experience. ... more

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