Drip Audio
This is what happens when you take some of the finest musicians on the West Coast and give them room to fully improvise. Cellist Peggy Lee’s career which hit a major crossroads in the 1990s thanks to improvisational projects with Talking Pictures and the Now Orchestra is right on track with this new release. Lee is a musician drawing on the full range of her interests and ad hoc collaborations. No surprise then that her newest release for Drip Audio a label known for its ad hoc partnerings of musicians is dynamic. With New Code Lee is joined by the likes of horn man Brad Turner percussionist Dylan van der Schyff and tenor sax man John Bentley. The CD begins and ends with lush full-band arrangements but the mid-section quickly moves into improvisational sound experiments ranging from the three-part “Off Shoot” through to the wave-like hypnotic “Floating Island” and a few compositions featuring gritty and frenetic horn string and percussion exchanges.
