If Not Inertia / Ergo

ERGO

Ergo is a unique electro-acoustic ensemble, who mine areas of sound unheard in modern jazz. If Not Inertia, their 2012 release on Cuneiform Records, is a set of laconic motifs, guitar effects and minute prepared-piano cresting and colliding in collective improvisations and live-sampling of the entire ensemble. Trombonist, computer musician Brett Sroka and drummer Shawn Baltazor are hold-overs for this third recording, with the addition of Sam Harris on piano, prepared piano and rhodes, and for the first time guest musicians, both of them guitarists. Acclaimed avant-garde guitarist Mary Halvorson appears on much of the record and Sebastian Krueger of the indie band Inlets plays acoustic guitar on the final track. If Not Inertia is a record that pushes Ergo’s music in new directions, at once organic, intangible and subtly stunning

Price: $19.98