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Kate Gentile: Mannequins by Hrayr Attarian, published on June 9, 2017. With the stimulating Mannequins, the New York based drummer Kate Gentile has created a cohesive and engaging album. On this first release under her own name, Gentile superbly balances emotive passion and intellectual acumen. Her intricate compositions are simultaneously fully realized and vibrantly supple and pliant as to allow for independent spontaneous expressions. The band's angular and crisp refrains build and intensely expectant ambience on the haunting "Trapezoidal Nirvana.

Tuesday, August 8, 2017. Kate Gentile - Mannequins (Skirl, 2017) . Ok, forgive me, I have no idea what I’m writing. However, I can posit with certainty that an album like Mannequins is a deep dive into the swirling logic and exacting twisted phrases that end up equaling something quite special. Gentile, who is immersed in the fertile music scene in Brooklyn, has worked with luminaries and peers such as Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Michael Formanek, Marty Ehrlich, Chris Speed, and Kris Davis.

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Gentile’s debut album, Mannequins, recalls Frank Zappa’s intricate polyrhythms if performed by a programmer, a classical percussionist, and a multi-limbed trap set player. Photo by Peter Gannushkin. Welcoming Complexities. Kate Gentile creates a unique sound and style within a demanding musical genre, deftly employing percussion including gongs, almglocken, Indian Noah bells, and Togo bells within highly personal electroacoustic compositions featuring intense improvisation

Drummer and composer Kate Gentile's debut recording is making a New Jazz splash. PopMatters interviews her to get behind this new direction in improvised music. I don’t know exactly what to make of drummer Kate Gentile’s Mannequins, and that’s a good thing.

How Kate Gentile Thinks About Her New Record. Mannequins is a recording that provides both the concrete pleasures of listening to jazz and yet also seems to exist as a more complicated/ formal bit of music-making and in a more emotional, shoot-from-the-hip realm too. Sometimes it sounds incredibly free and at other times you feel you need a diagram to find your place. Gentile explains that the two compositions were written a few years apart, but she put them together on the album consciously. I was imagining this low-high thing, she says, as the main theme has the instruments playing a melody together that leaps in wide, punching intervals. It’s a funky theme, odd but appealing.