Browse by Artist: TIGERSMILK

Artist:	TIGERSMILK
Title:	From the Bottle
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	FV 028CD

"The second album by Tigersmilk, the trio of cornetist, electronicist and Brazilian-based laptop manipulator Rob Mazurek (Chicago Underground, Isotope 217, solo releases on Mego, Delmark and Moikai), Chicago-centered acoustic bassist Jason Roebke (Rapid Croche, Fred Lonberg-Holm Trio, Terminal 4) and Vancouver percussionist Dylan van der Schyff (Francois Houle, Talking Pitctures, John Butcher). Tigersmilk is a full-improvising unit that surpasses the jazz-as-jazz sound for an individualist style steeped in a continuously unfolding mood. Without overplaying or extending any instrument, the three eloquently display deep orchestral colors and momentum that can shift from chattering avant garde interplay to ambient suspensions. The hard-bop tendencies and staccato horn of their 2003 self-titled Family Vineyard debut return with a more sinister and daring stylistic flourish. Mazurek's cornet runs create sensuousness and melancholy that find an equal standing next to Roebke's wobbly lines and the tumbling pro/anti-beat of van der Schyff. Whereas Mazurek's electronics and sonic depth charges were a mere accent on the first album, here they are riding up front, propelling a bright force of abstraction and connecting stasis and activity."

Artist:	TIGERSMILK
Title:	Android Love Cry
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	FV 045CD

"It gets nasty at times -- feedback laden, meters in the red -- even psychedelic as Tigersmilk pour it on thick, straight from some cosmic mind's eye teat. Android Love Cry is the third album from the voodoo concrète jazz crew of Rob Mazurek (Chicago Underground Duo, Mandarin Movie, Exploding Star Orchestra) on cornet, laptop/synth (and banjo), acoustic/electric bassist Jason Roebke (Rapid Croche, Fred Lonberg-Holm Trio), and percussionist Ylan Van Der Schyff (Talking Pictures). It's a dynamically gorgeous and dissonant thirteen part cycle that delves into obscure conditions of wilderness and transformation backed by a pulsing and often volatile syncopation not far from Max Neuhaus' electro-acoustics or even Cluster's space 'n' rhythm glow. Even with engorged synthesizer and percussive fields Tigersmilk's heart is the post-bop flare of Bill Dixon's late-60s orchestra and the oceanic pull of minimalist cool. Tradition is deep in these abstractions -- it's the unshakable bond of these three travellers who've created an album even a dark prince would love."

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