Cobalt Confidential by ICONOCLAST
You want, you need, you crave something different . . . Cobalt Confidential, the new album by ICONOCLAST, will satisfy all your desires. This daring fresh approach to jazz will challenge your senses, rip your mind open and make you sweat.
ICONOCLAST, the internationally acclaimed duo from New York City, is comprised of Julie Joslyn (alto saxophone, violin, live electronics, vocals) and Leo Ciesa (drums, keyboards, vocals). Cobalt Confidential is their twelfth album.
"Blending quasi-jazz with pop-rock and classic melodies, movie-like music with noisy improvisation and fast hardcore, this duet brought their own elegant freakiness to the stage and their show remained unforgettable." –Black Syrup (Serbia)
“Iconoclast, one of the world’s definitive noir jazz acts, the duo of Julie Joslyn and Leo Ciesa have built a distinctive body of work that’s part rainswept nocturnes, part edgy downtown improvisation and part punk jazz…Perennially fresh and always with a dark undercurrent, Iconoclast have more than earned themselves iconic status.” –New York Music Daily/Lucid Culture
“This cyclothymia is fun and enthralling . . . a ‘blues’ sentiment of restlessness and grotesque unease, close to the mood of American Horror Story, this dark and angry age.” –Blow Up Magazine (Italy)
“Julie Joslyn and Leo Ciesa create explosive free music and soaring melodies that mingle gorgeously on an unpredictable playlist. The duo is a grand array of sound . . .” –The New York City Jazz Record
www.iconoclastnyc.com
Also by ICONOCLAST:
Demolition of Wisdom (2022) In the Vodka Garden (2005)
Driven to Defiance (2017) Paradise (2000)
Naked Rapture (2014) Blood is Red (1995)
Dirty Jazz (2010) The Speed of Desire (1992)
The Body Never Lies (2006) City of Temptation (1990)
The Dreadful Dance (2005)
Tracklist
| 1. | Noise of Assumption | 4:44 |
| 2. | A Phrase of Mine | 5:54 |
| 3. | Where the Blooming Shadows Roam | 6:18 |
| 4. | Memory Park | 4:41 |
| 5. | On a Slow Ferry | 3:27 |
| 6. | The Spy Upstairs | 4:22 |
| 7. | Cobalt Confidential | 5:56 |
| 8. | Hope You Don't Mind | 1:54 |
| 9. | The Horseless Maiden | 1:31 |
| 10. | Opposites Contract | 1:08 |
| 11. | Comfort Me | 2:29 |
| 12. | The Secret Code | 6:35 |
| 13. | Without a Smudge | 4:02 |
Credits
All compositions by ICONOCLAST
Produced by ICONOCLAST
ICONOCLAST is:
Julie Joslyn:
Alto saxophone
Violin
Live electronics
Vocals
Hand Claps
Leo Ciesa:
Drums
Keyboards
Grand piano
Rhodes
Vocals
ProMark Drumsticks
Mallets, Brushes
Recorded September 7,8,9, 2024 at The Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Mixed and Mastered at The Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Recorded and Mixed by Aaron Nevezie
Mastered by Alex DeTurk
Assistant Engineer: Jasper Patrick Leach
Studio Interns: Sasha Balazic, Liam Levine, Larry Xu
Cover Art, Photos and Design: Josh Brown
Disc/Traycard Painting: Julie Joslyn [if used]
Leo Ciesa plays ProMark drumsticks and mallets exclusively
Thank you to Roberto Romeo (NYC) for saxophone maintenance and for his generosity
Thank you to Andy Plovnick at The Bunker Studio
Also available from ICONOCLAST:
Demolition of Wisdom (Fang Records, 2022)
Driven to Defiance (Fang Records, 2017)
Naked Rapture (Fang Records, 2014)
Dirty Jazz (Fang Records, 2010)
The Body Never Lies (Fang Records, 2006)
The Dreadful Dance (Fang Records, 2005)
In The Vodka Garden (Record One, 2005)
Paradise (Fang Records, 2000)
Blood is Red (Fang Records,1995)
The Speed of Desire (Fang Records,1992)
City of Temptation (Fang Records,1990)
www.iconoclastnyc.com
p c 2025 ICONOCLAST All Songs BMI
Fang Records
The Horseless Maiden
Finesse, legacy, distress.
They bother your inner feelings beyond control.
What does it say? What does it say about you?
You in-surmised, unstoppable you.
Just listen and the future will pass you by.
Reverberant souls against the wall.
Pressed flowers come to life.
Spilled milk soak up the sun.
Could there be anything better?
The news of love perhaps?
Thick smoke of declarations in the sky.
Long lost memory of the beginning when it all ended.
Then watch the horseless maiden ride by.
Raspberries! …they exclaimed as if nobody knew.
Nevertheless, we are right on track
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ICONOCLAST is the internationally renowned duo from NYC comprised of Julie Joslyn (alto sax, live electronics, violin, vocals) & Leo Ciesa (drums, percussion, keyboards, vocals). The duo has been composing and performing for over 30 years and have developed a bold and distinctive sound. ICONOCLAST has performed across the US, Canada & Europe and their 11 albums have received critical acclaim.