The new solo album A Song to Sing from saxophonist Nicole McCabe is only so much a saxophone album. In search of fresh melodic pathways, McCabe built most of this warped electronic jazz around on-the-spot explorations on synthesizer, piano, percussion, and clarinet.
Her improvisations in producer Pete Min’s Los Angeles studio, Lucy’s Meat Market, became raw material for processing, looping, and layering grooves, often before McCabe ever touched her alto. For the talented young composer, it was an experiment in process, an “extension of myself
into a different world.
”A rising force in the Los Angeles scene, McCabe’s world is ever-growing. This, her full-length debut on Colorfield Records, follows What is My Porpoise?, the latest frenzy from Dolphin Hyperspace, her beat-based duo with bassist Logan Kane, and the Jeff Parker-produced Mosaic, her fourth album as a bandleader. She entered Colorfield’s orbit with a spot on Amy
Aileen Wood’s The Heartening and recently featured on Spencer Zahn’s Statues Live. Recent collaborators include Dave Harrington, David Binney, Salami Rose Joe Louis, Louis Cole, Justin Brown, and Paul Cornish, the latter two guesting here... more
released March 7, 2025
Nicole McCabe - Saxophones, woodwinds, synthesizer, piano, percussion, and voice
Paul Cornish - Piano on "Foraging for Truth," "A Change in Scenery," "A Song to Sing"
Logan Kane - Upright bass on "Foraging for Truth," "Running Backwards,"
"A Change in Scenery," "Mystic Mountain"
Justin Brown - Drums on "Inner Critic," "Balloon Race," "Driving Alone at Night"
Produced by Nicole McCabe and Pete Min
Composed by Nicole McCabe
Recorded and mixed by Pete Min at Lucy's Meat Market, Los Angeles, CA
Mastered by Kevin Gray at Coherent Audio
Manufactured at RTI
The new solo album A Song to Sing from saxophonist Nicole McCabe is only so much a saxophone album. In search of fresh melodic pathways, McCabe built most of this warped electronic jazz around on-the-spot explorations on synthesizer, piano, percussion, and clarinet.
Her improvisations in producer Pete Min’s Los Angeles studio, Lucy’s Meat Market, became raw material for processing, looping, and layering grooves, often before McCabe ever touched her alto. For the talented young composer, it was an experiment in process, an “extension of myself
into a different world.
”A rising force in the Los Angeles scene, McCabe’s world is ever-growing. This, her full-length debut on Colorfield Records, follows What is My Porpoise?, the latest frenzy from Dolphin Hyperspace, her beat-based duo with bassist Logan Kane, and the Jeff Parker-produced Mosaic, her fourth album as a bandleader. She entered Colorfield’s orbit with a spot on Amy
Aileen Wood’s The Heartening and recently featured on Spencer Zahn’s Statues Live. Recent collaborators include Dave Harrington, David Binney, Salami Rose Joe Louis, Louis Cole, Justin Brown, and Paul Cornish, the latter two guesting here... more
released March 7, 2025
Nicole McCabe - Saxophones, woodwinds, synthesizer, piano, percussion, and voice
Paul Cornish - Piano on "Foraging for Truth," "A Change in Scenery," "A Song to Sing"
Logan Kane - Upright bass on "Foraging for Truth," "Running Backwards,"
"A Change in Scenery," "Mystic Mountain"
Justin Brown - Drums on "Inner Critic," "Balloon Race," "Driving Alone at Night"
Produced by Nicole McCabe and Pete Min
Composed by Nicole McCabe
Recorded and mixed by Pete Min at Lucy's Meat Market, Los Angeles, CA
Mastered by Kevin Gray at Coherent Audio
Manufactured at RTI
“Vivid landscapes emerge on A Song To Sing, despite its stripped-back cast. McCabe’s studio skills and many sided musical character pack this record with surprises, but those surprises are never delivered for their own sake. This is music that presents an artist to her audience with great care and clarity – even when it flirts with chaos.”
-Jazz Journal UK
