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.
"...into completely new horizons similar to nothing you've heard before... captivating, hypnotic, and attractively exotic music" - All Music Guide
"...has a deft touch when it comes to molding silence and drones into rich celestial balladry... a nifty confluence of George Lewis's dreamscapes and Miles's Lonely Fire, and while it's a record that invites you to watch the embers glow, it does its fair share of shooting off sparks."
- The Village Voice
"...part of a generation for which Autechre and Sigur Ros are as pressing concerns as Armstrong and Sun Ra. That's certainly evident in the band's timbral sophistication, spacey contours and slinky grooves."
- Time Out, New York
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