℗ 2010 Songlines Recordings
| Released | June 1, 2015 |
| Duration | 1h 06m 22s |
| Record Label | Songlines Recordings |
| Catalogue No. | SGL1584-2 |
| Genre | Jazz |
The Point of It All
Robin Holcomb, Talking Pictures, Wayne Horvitz
Available in 88.2 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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1.1
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Interlude
Wayne Horvitz; Talking Pictures; Robin Holcomb |
6:02 | |||
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1.2
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The Sweetest Thing
Wayne Horvitz; Talking Pictures; Robin Holcomb |
3:01 | |||
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1.3
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Buttermilk Hill Suite
Wayne Horvitz; Talking Pictures; Robin Holcomb |
6:34 | |||
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1.4
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Sad Waltz
Wayne Horvitz; Talking Pictures; Robin Holcomb |
6:00 | |||
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1.5
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The Point of It All
Wayne Horvitz; Talking Pictures; Robin Holcomb |
3:34 | |||
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1.6
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Couch Alternate (alternate)
Wayne Horvitz; Talking Pictures; Robin Holcomb |
3:44 | |||
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1.7
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Tiny Swing
Wayne Horvitz; Talking Pictures; Robin Holcomb |
3:10 | |||
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1.8
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Against the Drift
Wayne Horvitz; Talking Pictures; Robin Holcomb |
3:12 | |||
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1.9
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10.15.07
Wayne Horvitz; Talking Pictures; Robin Holcomb |
7:55 | |||
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1.10
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After the Gold Rush
Wayne Horvitz; Talking Pictures; Robin Holcomb |
4:14 | |||
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1.11
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The Scavenger Song
Wayne Horvitz; Talking Pictures; Robin Holcomb |
4:06 | |||
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1.12
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Electrical Storm
Wayne Horvitz; Talking Pictures; Robin Holcomb |
4:34 | |||
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1.13
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The Rain
Wayne Horvitz; Talking Pictures; Robin Holcomb |
10:16 |
"... improvisations and investigations into the heart and soul of experimental jazz ... the composer-singer-pianist takes journeys to carnival-like atmospheres and the natural world with equal aplomb."
- PopMatters.com
"... represents a fuller consolidation, coming closest to representing her varied musical interests. Lyrically, as ever, Holcomb's messages, while strong, are delivered gently, without a big stick. Expansive and deeply resonant, but in the quietest fashion possible ... perfectly melds Holcomb's divergent interests, with a group of musicians who seem perfectly connected to her evocative world on an empathic, telepathic level."
- All About Jazz
Husband and wife pianists Robin Holcomb and Wayne Horvitz team up with Vancouver quartet Talking Pictures on this album that defies easy categorization. As the title suggests, there’s a lesson of sorts being expounded. There’s certainly something archaic about it, almost as if these songs had already existed as prototypes in another time and place, a lost America of long ago. Yet this music is very much about now, a symbolic distillation of the present.
88.2 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Songlines Recordings Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.39 -2.19 to -0.20 | -18.60 -21.13 to -16.22 | -15.37 -17.50 to -13.10 | 11 10 to 13 | |
| 1 | Interlude | -0.20 | -20.15 | -16.0 | 13 |
| 2 | The Sweetest Thing | -2.19 | -21.13 | -17.5 | 12 |
| 3 | Buttermilk Hill Suite | -0.20 | -20.20 | -17.2 | 13 |
| 4 | Sad Waltz | -0.20 | -18.03 | -15.0 | 10 |
| 5 | The Point of It All | -0.20 | -20.39 | -17.1 | 13 |
| 6 | Couch Alternate (alternate) | -0.20 | -18.36 | -14.9 | 11 |
| 7 | Tiny Swing | -0.20 | -16.28 | -13.1 | 10 |
| 8 | Against the Drift | -0.20 | -17.90 | -15.1 | 12 |
| 9 | 10.15.07 | -0.20 | -17.91 | -14.5 | 10 |
| 10 | After the Gold Rush | -0.20 | -16.78 | -13.9 | 11 |
| 11 | The Scavenger Song | -0.33 | -16.22 | -13.7 | 10 |
| 12 | Electrical Storm | -0.56 | -18.52 | -15.5 | 12 |
| 13 | The Rain | -0.20 | -19.89 | -16.3 | 12 |