Penny Rimbaud, Louise Elliott - Touch Is Hold (2025) [Hi-Res]

Touch is Hold is the new collaborative album between British artist and prolific punk pioneers Penny Rimbaud (Crass) and saxophonist and flutist Louise Elliott. It will be out on April 18th via Caliban Sounds.

Rimbaud and Elliott display a richly intuitive relationship founded through their long-term collaborative efforts. “Louise and I rarely rehearse together, and generally we don’t attempt to analyse our results. To us, it’s all a matter of simply doing it. Yes, it’s more usually called improvisation, but I prefer simply to call it trust, the poetry of jazz and the jazz of poetry. And so it is that we exist both before and beyond all consideration of sentience. The touch which is hold; the eternal solemnity of being.”

Louise Elliott – sax and flute
Penny Rimbaud – poetry and voice
Lol Coxhill – sax

Tracklist:
1-1 Penny Rimbaud;Louise Elliott - IN SILENCE [3:57]
1-2 Penny Rimbaud;Louise Elliott - NOT THEY [3:19]
1-3 Penny Rimbaud;Louise Elliott - BREAKING POINT [5:37]
1-4 Penny Rimbaud;Louise Elliott - OF FLANDERS GARDEN [4:59]
1-5 Penny Rimbaud;Louise Elliott - STEPPING OUT IN RED [7:04]
1-6 Penny Rimbaud;Louise Elliott - SONG OF SELF [6:43]
1-7 Penny Rimbaud;Louise Elliott - TI JEAN [17:26]
1-8 Penny Rimbaud;Lol Coxhill;Louise Elliott - SAX DUET [6:26]
1-9 Penny Rimbaud;Louise Elliott - US BOYS [4:07]