Amber

Lori Freedman (bass clarinet) and Scott Thomson (trombone) are both acclaimed solo performers and have been featured as soloists at the renowned Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, for instance. Separately, they delve deeply into the technical and expressive resources of their instruments to satisfyingly sustain long-form solo improvisations. However, the duo is markedly more than the combination of its soloist parts, and each agrees that the other impels him or her to thrilling, visceral music they simply would not play otherwise, an alchemy of group improvisation. Ranging crazily from quiet stasis to chops-throttled entropy, the duo’s current music, made abundantly manifest on Amber, is richly reinvented in every vital incarnation.