LA Weekly’s Inches reviews the latest in the Ecstatic Jazz Duos series:
The experimentally inclined pairing of guitarist Chris Schlarb and drummer Tom Steck typically records for Asthmatic Kitty, but here the group indulges its more chaotic side, eschewing the sprawling beauty that marked 2008’s acclaimed Interoceans LP (which featured an appearance from Nels Cline) for [...]

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Foxy Digitalis reviews the I Heart Lung/DWMTG- Ecstatic Jazz Duos LP, available here.
Ecstatic Jazz Duos is a robust split of two diverse, non-idiomatic duos. DWMTG represents all that is wonderful about control and skillfully employed emphasis… Bassist Tony Gordon’s (Zandosis) fretwork is busy but precises, while percussionist Dale Miller is a testament to careful listening, [...]

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First, Auxiliary Out has these nice words to say about us:
Thor’s Rubber Hammer seems to be becoming the go-to place for jazz in the underground.
Aw, shucks! Here’s a review of Strawberry Duplex CDr by Bright Duplex.
If I gave out a best new artist award or something Bright Duplex would be the horse to bet on, [...]

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I Heart Lung just posted a 30-minute set recorded live at The Prospector in Long Beach, Calif., on the duo’s site. It’s 100% improvised and includes a version of John Coltrane’s “Seraphic Light” and a particularly crunchy take on “Axes Only,” originally recorded for I Heart Lung’s entry in the Ecstatic Jazz Duos series.
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Ever since Blastitude’s Larry Dolman started tweeting (seriously, follow him), we’ve been getting 140-character bursts of his daily listening. Thusly, he’s the first to review the new I Heart Lung/DWMTG LP.
I HEART LUNG b/w DWMTG: Ecstatic Jazz Duos LP (THOR’S RUBBER HAMMER) IHL=gtr/drums prog vibes, DWMTG=bass/drums low-key insectoid burrowing
He also gave a little shout-out to [...]

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I Heart Lung “Axes Only”
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DWMTG “Untitled, No. 9″
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When the Ecstatic Jazz Duos LP series was first conceived in late 2007, I Heart Lung was the absolute first duo that came to mind. Both musicians are solid in their own right with [...]

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I Heart Lung’s show at Death By Audio in Brooklyn got a really stellar write-up from the New York Times (!).
Gradually their sound began to suggest phantom contributors, as Mr. Schlarb — seated on his amplifier, with one foot crooked on an effects pedal — created a blanket of ambient drones. He was using much [...]

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Hot on the heels of a raving review from Pitchfork, I Heart Lung is flying out for its first Midwest/East Coast tour since 2005. They’ll have shirts, CDs, posters and drummer/painter Tom Steck will be selling one of a kind sketches at each show! Don’t miss!
February 28th at Cat’s Den, Lexington, KY.
March 1st at Speakertree [...]

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When I first approached saxophonist Valerio Cosi about the Ecstatic Jazz Duos project, he wrote to me, “Great jazz deserves vinyl.” After reading that, I was convinced to find six of the most innovative duos in the avant-jazz/free-noise realm and commit them to three LPs. As a result, the Ecstatic Jazz Duos series represents [...]

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