Chimera

It's like a string quartet that decided to spend a week in a smoky New York jazz club.

A high-tension intellectual focus balanced by the warm, physical resonance of acoustic wood.

Tracklist · 8 Tracks

Alluvium

8:04

Turbine #1

4:46

Mercy Street

8:46

Single Whip

9:55

Blind Tiger

11:00

Little Niles

6:01

Chimera

5:58

Fekunk

8:58

Moments Worth Waiting For

The percussive snap of pizzicato strings that opens Alluvium, setting a rhythmic tension that never fully exhales.

The way the cello and clarinet intertwine on Mercy Street, blurring the line between woodwind and string.

The sudden shift into a frantic, jagged bowing technique halfway through the title track, Chimera.

Sits BesideSee all

Five

Dave Douglas

1996

Shares chamber jazz, post-bop, avant-garde jazz, modern classical (signature)

Alto Saxophone Improvisations 1979

Anthony Braxton

1979

Shares post-bop, avant-garde jazz, modern classical, library (subgenre)

New True Illusion

Joanne Brackeen

1978

Shares post-bop, avant-garde jazz, modern classical, library (subgenre)

Phase Space

Steve Coleman

1992

Shares post-bop, avant-garde jazz, library, dry_intimate (subgenre)

Mutations

Vijay Iyer

2014

Shares chamber jazz, avant-garde jazz, modern classical, library (signature)

Facing You

Keith Jarrett

1972

Shares post-bop, avant-garde jazz, modern classical, library (subgenre)

Nosferatu

John Zorn

2012

Shares chamber jazz, avant-garde jazz, modern classical, library (signature)

Knives From Heaven

Matthew Shipp

2011

Shares avant-garde jazz, modern classical, library, intense (subgenre)

Hishiryo

Nik Bärtsch

2002

Shares avant-garde jazz, modern classical, library, focused_work (subgenre)

Elegiac Cycle

Brad Mehldau

1999

Shares post-bop, avant-garde jazz, modern classical, library (subgenre)

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