ENGINE
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NEWS
Read a review of ENGINE's debut CD, START, at Exclaim.ca. "Start is wholly its own thing." - Glen Hall
START can be purchased HERE, and can also be ordered through HMV, and purchased online from Amazon and iTunes.
INFO
ENGINE is a jazz quintet, formed in 2009 and led by the Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist, improvisor, and composer Peter Lutek. Peter is known for his work with Forty Fingers Saxophone Quartet, David Mott, and Freddie Stone. Joining him in ENGINE are Greg de Denus (piano), Tom Richards (trombone), Dan Fortin (bass), and Ethan Ardelli (drums).
The music, almost entirely compositions by Peter Lutek, is neither straight-ahead, nor is it freakish weirdness. There is a strong current of very human sounds of comfort, yearning, exhilaration, and anguish. There is also a vivid quest into extra-human places of unknowingness and deliberately experimental compositional intent. Peter is committed to the knife's edge of intersection between those two aesthetics. Framing it all, there is an overriding sense of wideness, broadness, landscape; something vast.
The name, ENGINE, while partly a product of a simple hunt for something iconic and not already overused, is also a nod to the fact that we are working with ENERGY here, and that we are doing so with MATTER (our bodies and our musical tools). There is energic input, it is transformed through physical work, and the product is some sort of usable output. And sometimes it explodes.
ENGINE's debut CD, entitled START, was released February 25th, 2011 on the Pet Mantis Records label. After nearly two years of playing to packed houses at The Rex Jazz & Blues Bar in Toronto, we are eager to use the energy of this disc to propel this music beyond the local community which has supported our beginnings so generously.
LISTEN
Some tracks from START for your listening pleasure...
The Lawnmower
Radiant
Folksing
All rights reserved. Recordings © and (p) Pet Mantis Records, 2010. The Lawnmower and Radiant © Peter Lutek, 2009 (SOCAN). Folksing © Greg de Denus, 2009 (SOCAN).
DOWNLOADS
Below are three images provided by Morgan Maher, the artist who designed the START CD. They were source material for the CD artwork, and are free to download -- click on the images for high-resolution versions!
These images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Attribution is to Morgan Maher.
CONTACT
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If you wish to contact us directly:
email: engine at enginequintet.com
telephone: 416-483-3757
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