The Passage Between

The Passage Between

between and beyond extremes
Randall Hall
Jonathon Kirk
Christian Lauba
Randall Hall
Catalog Number: 
new classical

Rock Island, IL

Release Date: 
Dec 12, 2011
Liner Notes: 
1 CD

The Passage Between

One Sheet: 

As Carl Jung once said, art that taps into the unconscious is characterized by a "strangeness of form and content." He might have been referring to Randall Hall's mythical universe where sax and electronics, dreams and exotic journeys, cohabit. Surrender to this music and see where it takes you. Some of it originates in Hall's powerfully shamanic improv talents, some notated by real life composers (I am thinking of extended-sax legend Christian Lauba), but all of it benefits from a dark room and the volume cranked. The only downside is that subsequent sax music you hear will seem wimpy.

Randall Hall is one of the foremost protagonists of shockingly modern music for the saxophone. He teaches at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. 


This cd is absolutely a fantastic next step by Hall who manages to create a very fruitful going together of acoustic and electronics due to this strong musical intuitions.

- DM, Modisti

One of the most significant classical saxophone discs for years. 


- Julian Cowley, The Wire