Sleepthief (Ingrid Laubrock album)

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Sleepthief
Sleepthief Laubrock cover.jpg
Studio album by
Ingrid Laubrock
Released2008
RecordedSeptember 1, 2007
StudioRadley College
GenreJazz
Length63:38
LabelIntakt
Ingrid Laubrock chronology
Let's Call This...
(2006) 		Sleepthief
(2008) 		Paradoxical Frog
(2010)

Sleepthief is the eponymous debut album by German jazz saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock's free improvisation trio with British pianist Liam Noble and American drummer Tom Rainey. It was recorded in 2007 and released on the Swiss Intakt label.[1] Laubrock and Noble played together since 2005 and recorded the duo Let's Call This.... While Rainey was visiting the UK they decided to get together and Sleepthief was born.[2]

Reception[]

The All About Jazz review by Chris May states, "In British pianist Liam Noble and American drummer Tom Rainey, Laubrock has found the perfect partners—restlessly inventive, provocative, deep, infinitely nuanced, spontaneously architectural."[3]

In a review for The Guardian, John Fordham notes that, "The music is free-jazz, but full of contrasts. Some of it finds the Monkish Noble banging chords while Rainey plays scattered patterns at half his speed, some has Laubrock's gruff, Evan Parkerish trills and whirrs drifting up and down over piano-string twangs and arrhythmic clatters."[4]

Track listing[]

All compositions by Laubrock, Noble, Rainey
  1. "Zugunruhe" – 8:19
  2. "Sleepthief" – 10:30
  3. "Oofy Twerp" – 5:54
  4. "Never Were Not" – 9:55
  5. "Environmental Stud" – 7:04
  6. "The Ears Have It" – 8:33
  7. "Batchelor's Know-how" – 5:39
  8. "Social Cheats" – 4:39
  9. "Amelie" – 3:05

Personnel[]

References[]

  1. ^ Sleepthief at Intakt Records
  2. ^ Sleepthief at Ingrid Laubrock
  3. ^ May, Chris. Sleepthief review at All About Jazz
  4. ^ Fordham, John Sleepthief review at The Guardian
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