Steph Richards - Power Vibe

Steph Richards has already made quite a name for herself in the worlds
of avant garde music and creative jazz
She has recorded for Relative Pitch and Northern Spy, worked with Laurie
Anderson, Anthony Braxton and Ravi Coltrane and studied with Wadada Leo
Smith. As co- producer of the FONT Music Festival, Richards worked for years
alongside fellow trumpeter Dave Douglas. Her records have been praised for
displaying her evident virtuosity and inventiveness, the New York Times calling
Richards "boldly inventive." NPR's Nate Chinen says Richards is "ingenious" and
Downbeat insisted that she is "the latest fgure of note" in jazz while All About
Jazz cuts to the chase, saying simply, that Richards "kicks ass."
It's an impressive history and litany of praise for a young trumpeter, but with her
latest full- length for Northern Spy, Power Vibe, Richards pushes even further,
marrying avant garde and cinematic moods with a kind of infectious and patently
pleasing tunefulness that is certain to expand her dedicated audience even
further. The addition of "sensory electronics" -- subtle but compelling textures and
tactile rhythms which are physically triggered by drum- mounted sensors --
compels fascination here, interweaving a kind of aural hyper-lucidity throughout
the record. Though boldly original, this music strides surefootedly alongside the
work of contemporaries like Nicole Mitchell and Rob Mazurek and the late jaimie
branch.

LP Black Vinyl Tracks: Prey / Power Vibe (For Wayne Shorter) / October to July
(For Dorian) / Moutons / Reculez / Supersense (Live in Bolzano)
CD Tracks: Prey / Power Vibe (For Wayne Shorter) / October to July (For
Dorian) / Moutons / Reculez / Supersense (Live in Bolzano)

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