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Runcible Spoon : Raincoat Lake

© Runcible Spoon 2005

Runcible Spoon is an innovative chamber jazz ensemble that features the talents of cellist Monica Fedrigo, violist Pamela Bettger, clarinetist Julia Hambleton, pianist Tania Gill and singer Leah State. Their music draws from a wide range of influences including jazz, classical, folk, improvised music and cabaret.

The group started as an instrumental quartet in 2001, experimenting with ways of using their unique instrumentation to improvise and arrange jazz material and traditional folk music. Shortly afterwards, jazz vocalist Leah State joined the band. In March 2002, the group embarked on an artist residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts, where they composed, rehearsed, received coaching and advice from guitarist/composer Bill Coon, and recorded their first CD.

Raincoat Lake was recorded in July 2005. The critically acclaimed CD features original compositions, a suite composed by Toronto bassist/composer Andrew Downing, and arrangements of music by Kurt Weill, George Gershwin and Cole Porter. The music is at times orchestral, playful, swinging, sentimental, angular, dissonant, humorous and passionate.

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