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Macie Stewart - Recipe for a Boiled Egg (2020)

Macie Stewart - Recipe for a Boiled Egg (2020)

BAND/ARTIST: Macie Stewart

  • Title: Recipe for a Boiled Egg
  • Year Of Release: 2020
  • Label: Astral Spirits
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 34:05 min
  • Total Size: 180 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Tea at Dawn
02. PERFECT (EVERY TIME)
03. Open Winded
04. "The" "Electric" "Slide"
05. Scrimble-Scramble
06. Stuff It In Your Mouth and Run (Hi)
07. Screaming Tea
08. Shattered Shell
09. Right Before Dinner
10. Rich, Sticky, Sweet
11. Song for Soft-Serve


A near-religious ardency resonates throughout “Song For Soft-Serve,” the closing track of Recipe For A Boiled Egg.

Macie Stewart’s violin and Lia Kohl’s cello gently coax waves of calm, mirroring the feel of Pauline Oliveros’ The Wanderer, or any number of other deep-listening exercises. Vocals layered atop their strings further a chorale concept suited to a season when we’re all longing for a communal, uplifting note. But the decidedly placid music that closes out the pair’s follow-up to 2019’s Pocket Full Of Bees (Astral Editions) contrasts with its playful title, merging tongue-in-check panache and the seriousness of art music.

“Right Before Dinner,” a gnarled swirl of bowed strings perhaps mimicking the churn of a hungry belly, works the same way—pushing avant-expectations on the moment when hunger makes our guts emit croaking and gurgling noises. All of Boiled Egg works that way, in fact: “Scrimble-Scramble” and “Screaming Tea” get new music-y, despite their playful titles; and the long tones of “Rich, Sticky, Sweet” render both performative endurance and the suspended time of inhaling something delicious.

If improvising is the comity of lightning-fast ideas springing from collaborators’ minds, Boiled Egg might be thought of as a confluence of Stewart and Kohl parsing their concurrent work in the jazz, pop and free worlds—in real time. Regardless, it’s more filling than a five-course meal.


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