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Green of Winter

by Battle Trance

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Michael Mueller What a remarkable album this is. Elements of Glass and Reich with deftly disturbing elements of Penderecki, but with the sonority of the saxophone taking these elements into startling new places.

The quality of the playing is astounding, in that the connection between the players is so intuitive it is as though it's the work of one mind. Beauty, hope, fear and chaos endlessly revolving.

This swirling, heady brew is definitely one of my albums of year. Favorite track: Green of Winter I.
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adam rea Battle Trance continues to expand its atmospheric and harmonic worlds with complete precision and absolute success. Highly recommended..
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davidskeist This music holds multitudes. It absorbs you utterly and takes you into the universe and back. Sublime and beautiful, intoxicating like Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music or Reich’s Music for 18 but with a vocabulary totally it’s own. Structured, intuitive, playful, frightening, sexy. Should be listened to in one full sitting (or standing and dancing). The first time I heard it I was actually driving from New York to Boston and that was a great way to listen too.
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musically_inclined Green of Winter 1 sets the Soundstage for the swarming of 🐝, 🐜, 🦋 , 🦟 on the march.
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On August 26, 2022, “the unusual quartet Battle Trance, comprised of four wildly talented tenor saxophonists” (NPR), releases Green of Winter, the followup to 2016’s Blade of Love, one of the “20 Best Avant Albums of the year” (Rolling Stone), a record featuring “three adventurously dense movements … that maintain a focused sense of restraint and melody throughout” (Pitchfork).

On Green of Winter, Battle Trance—a quartet that lives and works and plays in the seams between contemporary classical and avant-garde jazz—delves deeper into their signature musical language, working intimately with the connection between the human body and the human breath, a connection that composer Travis Laplante hones as a Qigong practitioner; by using the technique of circular breathing to create hypnotic waves of sound and layered saxophone multiphonics, or chords, Battle Trance weaves intricate, ancient textures that shed fresh light on the saxophone as an ensemble instrument.

Green of Winter, the third album in a New Amsterdam Records trilogy featuring both Blade of Love and 2014’s Palace of Wind, is a work of beauty and mystery, a musical harvest cultivated from the deep friendship between Battle Trance’s four members, Travis Laplante, Patrick Breiner, Matt Nelson, and Jeremy Viner—“America’s favorite tenor saxophone quartet” (Kenny G*)—as they celebrate their tenth anniversary as an ensemble.

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released August 26, 2022

Composed by Travis Laplante

Produced by Travis Laplante
Engineered by Dave Snyder
Mixed by Eli Crews
Mastered by Ryan Streber

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Battle Trance is a genre-defying ensemble of four tenor saxophonists: Travis Laplante, Patrick Breiner, Matthew Nelson, and Jeremy Viner. They perform the compositions of Travis Laplante.

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