(Avant-Garde, Modern Creative, Hat Hut) Lauren Newton - Filigree - 1998, FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

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REM GENRE Jazz
REM DATE 1982
REM DISCID 580D4707
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v1.0b2"
PERFORMER "Lauren Newton"
TITLE "Filigree"
FILE "Lauren Newton - Filigree.flac" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Timbre"
    PERFORMER "Lauren Newton"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Conversations"
    PERFORMER "Lauren Newton"
    INDEX 01 09:34:62
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Early Piece"
    PERFORMER "Lauren Newton"
    INDEX 01 13:39:62
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "Run Of The Mill"
    PERFORMER "Lauren Newton"
    INDEX 01 27:07:62
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "Filigree"
    PERFORMER "Lauren Newton"
    INDEX 01 34:09:62
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "Cross Rhythms"
    PERFORMER "Lauren Newton"
    INDEX 01 42:38:62
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    TITLE "Who's Blue"
    PERFORMER "Lauren Newton"
    INDEX 01 51:34:62

Born in Coos Bay, Oregon, U.S.A. She received the Bachelor of Music degree in 1975 from the University of Oregon and in 1977 a degree in Vocal Performance from the School of Music in Stuttgart, Germany. She has performed 20th century music as well as works written especially for her by composers A. Hölszky, B.Konrad, W.Dauner,H.J.Hespos, H.Zerbe and others. She was singer with the "Vienna Art Orchestra" from 1979 to 1990(20 LP/CDs). Her first solo LP "Timbre" received the annual German Critics Award in 1983 and was again released in´98 as a CD under the title "Filigree". Tours and CD recordings with Vocal Summit with B.McFerrin, J. Lee, J.Clayton and U. Dudziak. She composed music for the Freiburg Theater in Germany, and Burg Theater in Vienna, Austria, for radio-plays (german, swiss and austrian radios) and for film, acting and singing in all of these as well. She performed with austrian poet Ernst Jandl from 1983 until 1999. Since 1990 she performs with the vocal quartet "Timbre", since 1995 with Joëlle Léandre(b), Fritz Hauser (dr), Urs Leimgruber(s), and Heiri Känzig,(b). Diverse music projects, concerts, radio and cd recordings with Jon Rose (v/comp), Hannes Zerbe (p/comp), Patrick Scheyder (p), Vladimir Tarasov (dr), Joachim Kuhn(p), Aki Takase(p), Anthony Braxton (sax/fl/comp) and the European Chaos String Quintet as well as performances with artist, Koho Mori. She has done commissioned works, radio plays and has sung as soloist in performance art projects as well as in collaboration with various dancers. Since 1974 she travels extensively with different groups performing at most of the reknowned music festivals in Europe, Russia, USA, Canada and parts of Africa. Since 1982 she continues to sing in Japan in concerts and recordings with different japanese artists. She lives in Germany since 1974.

This CD reissue carries a different title than its 1982 predecessor, Timbre. It also includes the track "Early Piece," which was omitted from the original. According to the liner notes, this recording "already" features Lauren Newton's idiosyncratic nature as a vocalist. And to a degree, it's true. Newton comes from two very formal traditions in her singing that of the classic Ella Fitzgerald/Sarah Vaughan school of be- and post-bop scat singers. On the other hand, given her European studies, she was reared in the 20th century Viennese school of lieder, as composer by Webern, Schoenberg, Berg, and others, and performed by singers such as Cathy Berberian. She is at home in both places, and tried not so much to fuse them but to create from them a new place for the vocalist in modern music. She is a cerebral singer who is sometimes very physical and, as evidenced here, can flawlessly weave a scat improvisation with tonal and even polytonal - guttural conversations between herself and herself and finally with her band - David Friedman is a perfect foil since his playing is so lyrical and grounded. In the funked-out scat of "Early Piece," where Tomas Stabenow's bass moves into a gut-bucket groove covered by Friedman's octave harmonics and finally rhythmically contoured by Manfred Kniel's drums, Newton goes for the top of her range early and carries through with both melody and harmony in counterpoint. It is followed by the instantly composed "Run of the Mill," which begins as a low moan where mode and timbre become a kind of reverse melody for Newton to improvise from. Her bandmates, while attempting to hold her voice to the place of "just another instrument" in the mix, fail miserably, and she writhes and groans her own glorious death rattle of an angel. In all, this is a fine, fine recording. But one has to wonder if, for all her alleged physicality, Newton's approach is limiting because she over intellectualizes her improvisations, and needs to pack in, it appears, everything she knows into each track here. She does not possess the raw, organic bodily contact with improvisation that Julie Tippet does, nor does she command the same deep spontaneous yet deep emotional range Tippet has. Which leaves us to wonder, why since Newton, as talented as she is, so very carefully attempts to emulate that same organic, unpretentious heart that Tippet displays so naturally - she doesn't ever credit her influence?
~ Thom Jurek

Lauren Newton - voice
David Friedman - vibraphone
Thomas Stabenow - bass
Manfred Kniel - drums