New York-based cellist Daniel Levin is in the midst of another busy year, toggling between rigorous free improvisation and outward-bound ensemble-oriented projects. He’s at his most visceral on the new Spinning Jenny, an abrasive improvised session with double bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and percussionist Chris Corsano, where terse arco jabs and knotted-up pizzicato patterns turn up as often as snaking, exploratory lines, and the bare-knuckled attack by all three creates an exhilarating physicality.…
New York-based cellist Daniel Levin is in the midst of another busy year, toggling between rigorous free improvisation and outward-bound ensemble-oriented projects. He’s at his most visceral on the new Spinning Jenny, an abrasive improvised session with double bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and percussionist Chris Corsano, where terse arco jabs and knotted-up pizzicato patterns turn up as often as snaking, exploratory lines, and the bare-knuckled attack by all three creates an exhilarating physicality.…