Kate Gentile - Find Letter X (CD)

Find Letter X, the eponymous release from the Brooklyn-based band led by drummer/composer Kate Gentile, features saxophonist Jeremy Viner, pianist Matt Mitchell, and bassist Kim Cass. Gentile's 2021 release Snark Horse - co-led with Mitchell - was a gargantuan six-volume set that Downbeat called "Monumental... Creating an abstract galaxy from scratch, they sound like they know every black hole and supercluster in the place." The similarly-ambitious new work - across three densely-packed CDs housed in a custom-designed package - bursts with inventive details and dramatic arcs. Each disc contains a distinct thematic identity while simultaneously contributing to a larger narrative trajectory. Meticulously-constructed and highly intentional, Find Letter X is a wide-ranging exploration of diverse sonics and contrasting forms: a vibrant feedback loop of virtuosic improvisational and compositional ingenuity entirely unified by Gentile's singular musical aesthetic.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Iridian Alphabet
2. Pulse Capsule
3. Laugh Magic
4. Find Letter X
5. Subsurface
6. Recursive Access
7. The New Basics
8. In Casks
9. Ore Whorls
10. Stelliform Lamellae
11. Prismatoid
12. Contrarianism
13. Prescience
14. Erinome
15. The 5th Clone
16. Invisible Wolves

Disc: 2

1. Senselessness
2. R.A.T.B.O.T.B
3. Raze
4. Nine Fog
5. Garbage Juice... Va Zisroas
6. Blankeye
7. Zislupme Tnilyive Tsoam Ath
8. Clovd 8
9. Smother
10. Importunate Babble
11. Four-Bladed
12. Dissolution
13. Offing
14. Jupiter Vs. the Sun

Disc: 3

1. The Cosmic Brain
2. Psychoradiant
3. Clarion Fluorescent
4. Q Quiet
5. Eternal Lapse
6. Bask
7. Effulgence
8. Spectrescope
9. Quantum Exits
10. Epitome
11. Open Epoch
12. Synaptic Blazes
13. Supergiant Inciner