The Madness of Crowds is the second album by Sleepthief, a free improvisation trio led by German jazz saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock with British pianist Liam Noble and American drummer Tom Rainey. It was recorded in 2010 and released by Intakt Records. The song titles as well as the album's title are taken from the book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Scottish writer Charles Mackay.

In a review for The Guardian, John Fordham says "Laubrock's yelping lines over Rainey's battering percussion, her contrasting murmurings over damped piano strings and arrhythmic tappings, windy multiphonic sounds amid cowbell chimes and ghostly chords reveal an increasingly distinctive Sleepthief soundscape." - Wikipedia

https://laubrock-intakt.bandcamp.com/album/the-madness-of-crowds

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Sleepthief is the eponymous debut album by German jazz saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock's free improvisation trio with British pianist Liam Noble and American drummer Tom Rainey. It was recorded in 2007 and released on the Swiss Intakt label. Laubrock and Noble played together since 2005 and recorded the duo Let's Call This.... While Rainey was visiting the UK they decided to get together and Sleepthief was born.

In a review for The Guardian, John Fordham notes that, "The music is free-jazz, but full of contrasts. Some of it finds the Monkish Noble banging chords while Rainey plays scattered patterns at half his speed, some has Laubrock's gruff, Evan Parkerish trills and whirrs drifting up and down over piano-string twangs and arrhythmic clatters." - Wikipedia

https://laubrock-intakt.bandcamp.com/album/sleepthief

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Do you know the music of Sleepthief? It's the (mostly) one-person work of a guy who is an attorney in Salt Lake City. Wonderful, multi-layered computer production. Cinematic scoring meets Ren Fair, kind of

Airmid is probably my favorite track.

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https://youtu.be/so_98a-H_BA?si=yocFbp3-T5cM-ZWl

It’s #YouTubesday, a day to celebrate the bounties of everybody’s favourite streaming service.

I love Duran Duran. I don’t, generally, like cover versions, but bloody hell if this version of DD’s The Chauffeur doesn’t ease gently into your ears and into your consciousness.

https://youtu.be/l-S4GMUZ1mk

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