Inaugural Release for New Label — Available Now on All Platforms
“The music this duo is creating is as stunningly creative and beautiful as anything either of them has done in the past.” — Stereogum
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NEW YORK, NY — Vibraphonist and marimbist Patricia Brennan and pianist Sylvie Courvoisier release Talamanti, their debut duo album, today on the newly founded Antlia Records. The album marks the inaugural release for the label and the first recorded document of a creative partnership years in the making.
Talamanti documents the convergence of two distinct instrumental worlds: the percussive resonance of vibraphone and marimba against the architectural range of piano, forged into a shared sonic language. The album title derives from tlamantli, a Nahuatl word describing things that resemble one another while remaining distinct, a concept that speaks directly to the musical chemistry at the record’s core.
“Piano and vibraphone share a similar physical gesture: something strikes something else, and the sound blooms outward. But they also live in very different worlds of resonance. The piano can feel architectural: dense, grounded, capable of enormous weight. The vibraphone tends to float, its tones suspended in air. When we play together, I feel like we’re exploring the space between those two qualities: gravity and suspension.”
— Patricia Brennan
The nine-piece program includes seven Brennan originals alongside two compositions by Courvoisier. The music moves across a wide expressive terrain: from the pulsing rhythms of lead single “Disparate Chase,” which captures a shifting interplay between clarity and ambiguity, to the cosmological sweep of “Trece Cielos,” inspired by the thirteen ascending heavens of Aztec cosmology; from the slow, searching melancholy of “Perdidos en el Lamento” to the playful, Messiaen-inflected feline drama of Courvoisier’s “Knots and Dander.” Courvoisier’s “Corto” reimagines a piece from her trio catalog in intimate duo form. Brennan’s “Hojas de Malabar” draws on her Veracruz roots, while “EQdistance” constructs an entire harmonic world from a single equidistant pitch relationship.
Talamanti is out today on all streaming platforms, Bandcamp, and at antliarecords.com.
Track Listing
- Disparate Chase
- The Time We Spent
- Corto (Sylvie Courvoisier)
- Perdidos en el Lamento
- Trece Cielos
- Hojas de Malabar
- Knots and Dander (Sylvie Courvoisier)
- Coma Berenices
- EQdistance
All compositions by Patricia Brennan except “Corto” and “Knots and Dander” by Sylvie Courvoisier.
About Patricia Brennan
Vibraphonist and marimbist Patricia Brennan approaches her instrument as a complete sonic world — melodic, textural, and endlessly resonant. A native of Veracruz, Mexico now based in New York, she has established herself as a composer and improviser of singular imagination, collaborating across the spectrum of creative music while maintaining a focused, deeply personal artistic vision. Her most recent album as a leader, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic Records, 2025) — a tentet work drawing pitch and melodic data from constellations — earned widespread critical acclaim and placed second on the 2025 Francis Davis Jazz Poll.
About Sylvie Courvoisier
Pianist and composer Sylvie Courvoisier has spent decades expanding what the piano can do and what it can mean. A leading figure in European and American new music, the Swiss-born, Brooklyn-based artist brings to every setting a restless curiosity and a command of the instrument that moves fluidly between structure and spontaneity, density and silence. Winner of the Swiss Grand Prix Musik 2025, she released Eclats — Live in Europe (Intakt Records) with her trio in March 2026, capturing the full breadth of a long-running working band at its peak.
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