Path of Totality

Path of Totality is a slow burner, but for those with the patience it’s a very rewarding listen. — Jazzwise, April 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 8th Feb 2019
Catalogue No: WR4733
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Length: 80 minutes

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Quinsin Nachoff: Path of Totality

Work length6:32

Quinsin Nachoff's Flux, David Binney, Matt Mitchell, Nate Wood, Kenny Wollesen

Quinsin Nachoff: Bounce

Work length19:15

Quinsin Nachoff's Flux, David Binney, Jason Barnsley, Matt Mitchell, Nate Wood

Quinsin Nachoff: Toy Piano Meditation

Work length19:30

Quinsin Nachoff's Flux, David Binney, Mark Duggan, Matt Mitchell, Kenny Wollesen

Quinsin Nachoff: March Macabre

Work length13:59

Quinsin Nachoff's Flux, Alan Ferber, Orlando Hernández, David Binney, Ryan Keberle, Dan Urness, Kenny Wollesen, Matt Mitchell, Carl Maraghi, Matt Holman

Quinsin Nachoff: Splatter

Work length13:23

Quinsin Nachoff's Flux, David Binney, David Travers-Smith, Matt Mitchell, Nate Wood

Quinsin Nachoff: Orbital Resonances

Work length8:06

Quinsin Nachoff's Flux, David Binney, Kenny Wollesen, Matt Mitchell

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Quinsin Nachoff’s Flux communicates an extraordinarily colourful palette of conceptual reasoning and musical expression in the effulgent release, ‘Path of Totality’. Featuring saxophonist David Binney, pianist/keyboardist

Matt Mitchell, drummers Kenny Wollesen and Nate Wood, plus a clutch of guest artists.

Available on CD (includes 12-page booklet) and high quality, 180 gram, double 12” LP, limited to 300 copies - comes with download code containing the highres digital album.

Saxophonist/composer Nachoff’s overarching inspiration arose from the moon’s total eclipse of the sun in 2017. That event became a dramatic, natural metaphor for the band’s evolutionary creative process, plus a reminder

(especially amidst current political and environmental discord) of light’s assured emanation from and triumph over transitory darkness.

The Toronto-born, New York-based saxophonist’s compositions each begin from a clear-cut kernel of an idea, with their own set of parameters, which are then developed into stories of differing landscapes, all crafted from the ground up for these specific players to interpret and improvise across.

Tracks include the progressive yet cyclical impetus in giant-stepping title track “Path of Totality”, explored through thunderous, phased double-drum patterns and farreaching saxophone figures; and “Bounce” takes motivic

ideas and rhythmic structures from a bouncing ball’s motion (studied through mathematical programmes), manipulating them to create elasticized environments, the two saxophonists’ extemporizations eventually narrowing

against the full swell of a 1924 Kimball Theatre Organ. As you immerse yourself in its narrative, on whatever level you connect with its story, Path of Totality’s artistic journey continues to intrigue, fascinate and

enthral.

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April 2019

Path of Totality is a slow burner, but for those with the patience it’s a very rewarding listen.

February 2019

...a stunning, deep dive of an album, the sort of music in which one could spend hours submersed.

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