Marilyn Lerner / Nicole Rampersaud
Brass Knuckle Sandwich
2021 - Ambiances Magnétiques: AM 258
https://www.ambiancesmagnetiques.com/
https://actuellecd.com/fr/album/6113/Marilyn_Lerner_Nicole_Rampersaud/Brass_Knuckle_Sandwich
https://actuellecd.com/en/album/6113/Marilyn_Lerner_Nicole_Rampersaud/Brass_Knuckle_Sandwich

* Marilyn Lerner   : piano
* Nicole Rampersaud: trumpet

https://www.marilynlerner-artist.com/
https://www.nicolerampersaud.com/

Recorded by Jeff Elliot at Union Sound,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on August 2, 2018.

Reviews
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By Ken Waxman
https://www.thewholenote.com/index.php/booksrecords2/jazzaimprovised/31084-brass-knuckle-sandwich-marilyn-lerner-nicole-rampersaud
https://www.jazzword.com/one-review/?id=130665

Polished and powerful as the first part of its name and as layered as the
second, Toronto’s Brass Knuckle Sandwich has produced a crunchy but powerful
snack of seven in-the-moment improvisations. The duo of pianist Marilyn Lerner
and trumpeter Nicole Rampersaud, longtime members of the city’s experimental
music community, inventively displays every flavourful scintilla of sound from
the furthest reaches of their instruments. Lerner clips, pumps and slides over
the keys in groups or separately and strums, plucks and buzzes the piano’s
internal strings. Making use of tongue stopping, tone crackling and half-valve
effects, Rampersaud’s brass extensions include vocalized blowing,
spittle-encrusted squeaks, strangled cries and plunger farts. [...]

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By (NR)
https://www.vitalweekly.net/1277.html

By Connor Kurtz
https://www.freejazzblog.org/2018/09/25th-annual-guelph-jazz-festival.html