For Immediate Release

25 Tracks! 75 Minutes of Naked Rapture! A bold new studio recording by the internationally acclaimed duo, ICONOCLAST. Let yourself succumb to the rapture - to the entrancing lyricism, the migraine-inducing intensity, the hypnotic rhythms, the ear splitting screams, the frenzy and the calm. Surrender to the mind-altering universe that is ICONOCLAST. Naked Rapture takes you on a journey of dramatic and surprising twists and turns, never going where you expect it to.

And for the first time ever ICONOCLAST has recorded unique interpretations of two great works: the spectacular “A Night in Tunisia” by Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Paparelli and, on a different note, the stunning “Revolutionary Etude” by Frederick Chopin (1810-1839).

Julie Joslyn's liquid mercury alto sax (and snarling violin) and Leo Ciesa's slasher drums (and icily melodic piano) are in full noir effect on the uncompromising, smartly aware, assaultively lurid effort.”
Lucid Culture

“Iconoclast plunges us into the very heart of a somber world with nevertheless a sort of deaf beauty, at the depths of a polar blackness that is both humid and fascinating.”
Impro Jazz (France)

Ferocious, intelligent and emotionally powerful music by New York City's ICONOCLAST. Allow the Rapture to possess you . . . the Naked Rapture.


www.iconoclastnyc.com

Also by ICONOCLAST:
            Dirty Jazz (2010)
            The Body Never Lies (2006)
            The Dreadful Dance (2005)
            Paradise (2000)
            Blood is Red
(1995)
            The Speed of Desire (1992)
            City of Temptation (1990)