String Trio Of New York

Rebirth Of A Feeling is the fourth album by the String Trio Of New York, still with its founding line-up: violinist Billy Bang, guitarist James Emery and bassist John Lindberg, who had started the group in New York in 1977. Like Area Code 212 and Common Goal before it, it was made in Milan for Black Saint, and like them it consists only of the members' own pieces. This time the balance shifts towards longer forms, with one composition by Lindberg taking up more than a quarter of the running time.

The trio recorded on November 25 and 26, 1983 at Barigozzi Studio in Milan, three years to the day after the Area Code 212 session in the same room. Giancarlo Barigozzi engineered, Giovanni Bonandrini produced, and the record was mastered by Gennaro Carone, with liner notes by Art Lange. Emery plays guitar and soprano guitar and wrote two pieces: Open Up, which starts the album at nearly eight minutes, and Ephemera Trilogy. Bang contributes Karottenkopf and Penguins An' Other Strange Birds, of about six and seven and a half minutes. Lindberg's Utility Grey, the closing track, runs to fourteen and a half minutes, by far the longest piece the trio had recorded for Black Saint up to then. Bang left the group in May 1986 and was replaced by violinist Charles Burnham, and the trio went on with Emery and Lindberg as its constant core.

This is the Black Saint CD 120068-2, which Discogs lists as a reissue of the album first released on LP in 1984, with the five tracks of the original.