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.

Tracklist:

Iridian Alphabet
Pulse Capsule
Laugh Magic
Find Letter X
Subsurface
Recursive Access
The New Basics
In Casks
Ore Whorls
Stelliform Lamellae
Prismatoid
Contrarianism
Prescience
Erinome
The 5th Clone
Invisible Wolves
Senselessness
R.A.T.B.O.T.B
Raze
Nine Fog
Garbage Juice... Va Zisroas
Blankeye
Zislupme Tnilyive Tsoam Ath
Clovd 8
Smother
Importunate Babble
Four-Bladed
Dissolution
Offing
Jupiter Vs. the Sun
The Cosmic Brain
Psychoradiant
Clarion Fluorescent
Q Quiet
Eternal Lapse
Bask
Effulgence
Spectrescope
Quantum Exits
Epitome
Open Epoch
Synaptic Blazes
Supergiant Inciner

UPC: 808713010022
Label: Pi Recordings
Release Date: 10.13.23
Format: CD

Kate Gentile - Find Letter X (CD)