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Songs We Love: Lea Bertucci, 'Patterns For Alto'

Lea Bertucci's <em>Metal Aether</em> comes out Feb. 9

To create her wide-ranging music, New York-based artist Lea Bertucci has used a wealth of instruments and compositional techniques. But her primary, she delves into it perhaps further than she ever has. Using a musical vocabulary that a press release says is "based on a spectral, psychoacoustic, and non-linguistic approach to the instrument," she devoutly mines the kaleidoscopic sonic possibilities of the saxophone, augmenting it with touches of electronics, field recordings, and processed instruments such as piano and vibraphone.

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