Catalogue

Summary:

Critics’ Choice of the Year 2024 – Barry Kilpatrick, American Record Guide

Beat poet: Pat Posey shares the sound of the remarkable tubax
“The growling, guttural timbre and harmonic timbre and harmonic overtones are perfectly showcased … Posey displays colossal lung power and technique … fiendishly virtuosic … a dazzling, unsettling spectacle by a musician pushing the creative envelope”. ★★★★ – BBC Music Magazine

“The tubax has an amazing low register, and in the hands of a player like Pat Posey, it can be nimble and produce astonishing multiphonics … Posey’s own Hymn (2022), a real tour-de-force of inspiration, beauty, quirkiness, and earblowing sounds. Fantastic album” – American Record Guide

“Pat Posey’s solo album they/beast displays the Tubax›s incredible sound with a wide variety of materials… If listening to Paul Desmond’s alto sax is like sipping a fine white wine, Posey’s Tubax is like drinking a delicious porter. Its lows are glorious and Posey dextrously wrestles through some very complex material. they/beast is a unique and sonically adventurous treat” – The WholeNote

Saxophonist Pat Posey goes to extremes for his solo debut album, they/beast. Introducing the tubax – a German-invented, modified version of the contrabass saxophone – Pat plays deep, dark renditions of J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 3, Melodies for Saxophone by Philip Glass, Bach-inspired Mo’ingus by Brooklyn-based composer-saxophonist Shelley Washington, and Pat’s own Hymn.

Tracklist:

SHELLEY WASHINGTON (b. 1991)
1. MO’INGUS (11:21)

PHILIP GLASS (b. 1937)
Melodies for Saxophone
2. No. 1 (1:28)
3. No. 2 (1:38)
4. No. 3 (1:50)
5. No. 4 (1:41)
6. No. 5 (2:56)
7. No. 6 (0:56)
8. No. 7 (1:10)
9. No. 8 (1:46)
10. No. 9 (1:11)
11. No. 10 (1:41)
12. No. 11 (1:36)
13. No. 12 (2:52)
14. No. 13 (2:09)

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750)
Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009
15. I. Prélude (4:16)
16. II. Allemande (3:34)
17. III. Courante (3:30)
18. IV. Sarabande (4:04)
19. V. Bourées I & II (3:34)
20. VI. Gigue (3:35)

PAT POSEY (b. 1978)
21. Hymn (12:04)

Pat Posey, solo tubax