Robin Holcomb - The Point Of It All '2010; 2015

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... improvisations and investigations into the heart and soul of experimental
jazz ... the composer-singer-pianist takes journeys to carnival-like atmospheres
and the natural world with equal aplomb.
- PopMatters.com

... represents a fuller consolidation, coming closest to representing her varied
musical interests. Lyrically, as ever, Holcombs messages, while strong, are
delivered gently, without a big stick. Expansive and deeply resonant, but in the
quietest fashion possible ... perfectly melds Holcombs divergent interests, with
a group of musicians who seem perfectly connected to her evocative world on an
empathic, telepathic level.
- All About Jazz

Husband and wife pianists Robin Holcomb and Wayne Horvitz team up with Vancouver
quartet Talking Pictures on this album that defies easy categorization. As the
title suggests, there’s a lesson of sorts being expounded. There’s
certainly something archaic about it, almost as if these songs had already
existed as prototypes in another time and place, a lost America of long ago. Yet
this music is very much about now, a symbolic distillation of the present.

01. Robin Holcomb - Interlude (6:01)
02. Robin Holcomb - The Sweetest Thing (3:02)
03. Robin Holcomb - Buttermilk Hill Suite (6:35)
04. Robin Holcomb - Sad Waltz (6:00)
05. Robin Holcomb - The Point of It All (3:34)
06. Robin Holcomb - Couch Alternate (alternate) (3:45)
07. Robin Holcomb - Tiny Swing (3:10)
08. Robin Holcomb - Against the Drift (3:12)
09. Robin Holcomb - 10.15.07 (7:56)
10. Robin Holcomb - After the Gold Rush (4:15)
11. Robin Holcomb - The Scavenger Song (4:06)
12. Robin Holcomb - Electrical Storm (4:35)
13. Robin Holcomb - The Rain (10:14)

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