Minneapolis-based saxophonist Cole Pulice
played baritone saxophone for the nine-piece Black Market Brass
(Jared Jarvis on tenor saxophone, Sam Harvey-Carlson on keyboards, Hans Kruger and Mitch Sigurdson on guitars, trombone, trumpet, bass and several percussionists), an Afro-funk band that recorded Cheat and Start a Fight (2016) and Undying Thirst (2020), containing the ten-minute So Who – Pt 1 & 2.
Pulice was also
a member of LCM that released Signal Quest (2020).
Pulice debuted solo with Gloam (2020), which contains experiments in different styles:
the cacophonous Neurochrome, the barely audible Arc of Shadows,
the languid loops of Sleep Helix, etc.
Best are the somnolent drones and spiraling sax phrases of Bone Prisms.
The mini-album
To Live & Die in Space & Time (2022) was a collaboration with• Lynn Avery, a pianist also from Minneapolis who had recorded as Iceblink the albums
Iceblink (2018) and Carpet Cocoon (2020).
Now residing in Oakland, the couple penned four meditative pieces, notably
the 12-minute The Sunken Cabin for saxophone, piano and electronics.
The seven-song mini-album Strawberry Roan (2022), a collaboration with synth-man Nat Harvie, borders on new-age music.
Pulice recorded a second solo album (or, better, mini-album),
Scry (2022), recorded between 2019 and 2022,
his most electronic work yet, on which his electronic saxophone sounds like
a keyboard.
Astral Cowpoke, halfway between
Harold Budd's delicate filigrees and
Jon Hassell's fourth-world music,
is the standout.
Scry is a fragile jazz lullaby.
