Press Room
“fiendishly good and fiendishly goofy in equal measure.”
- Chicago Tribune
“charismatic young ensemble swiftly becoming the American saxophone quartet du jour”
- Musical America
“masterfully capturing the wide variations in dynamics and aural color”
- Third Coast Review
“[One of the] major groups at the forefront of new music in America”
- Chicago Classical Review
“technically superb and musically brilliant”
- Cleveland Classical
“truly innovative musicianship,”
- Cacophony Magazine
What is ~Nois Reviews
★★★★
The showstopper is Travis Laplante’s three-movement Running in a Field of Flowers, a work that encapsulates the overarching search for saxophonic identity. I cannot better Laplante’s own description of this as a ‘love letter’ to the saxophone; Chicago-based ~Nois Quartet delivers the note with affection.
- BBC Musical America
"[In] What is ~Nois, timbres are fused here with keyboards, drums, and guitars to form flights of creative fantasy and virtuosity"
-Gramophone
"Utterly gorgeous and gripping."
-Cast the Dice
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- NPR Music
"You will never listen to saxophones the same way again after hearing Laplante’s imaginative and adventurous piece."
- Cultural Attaché
"No matter what genre they tackle, ~Nois exudes this searing joy. If this is noise, it’s a joyful noise."