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#21: Doug Theriault & David Chandler - Office Products:
With this disk, Doug Theriault (electric guitar) and David Chandler (electronic
percussion/turntable) celebrate ten years as the duo "Office Products."
Recorded live at studio Pharmacy in December 2005, the session explores
a range of improvisatory styles and textures, from gritty, rapid-fire duo
exchanges to lyrical transitions and even a few moments of fleeting, twisted
funk. Total time: 31:06. |
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#22: Jeffrey Lependorf, Brian Moran, Matt Hannafin, Ravi Padmanabha
- Four Ideas of Stillness: The second live release from Brooklyn's Avant
Yard series, an outdoor performance event in which improvisers are encouraged
to work with the ambient sounds of the neighborhood: birds, sirens, children's
voices, overflying planes, etc. Featuring Jeffrey Lependorf (shakuhachi),
Brian Moran (electronics), and Matt Hannafin and Ravi Padmanabha (percussion).
"The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no
bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing." -- Seung Sahn. Total
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#23: Jack Wright & Reuben Radding - This Is Not an Exit:
Captured during a weeklong tour of the southern U.S. in 2004, "This Is Not
an Exit" presents two dedicated improvisers in an extraordinarily direct
set of performances, with two tracks recorded in North Carolina and a third
in Virginia. The arrival of Wright (alto & soprano saxophones) and Radding
(double bass) in Richmond was likened to Abraham Lincoln's in 1865, when
the newly freed slaves lined the streets shouting "Glory, hallelujah!" Ten
days after the president's visit, he was assassinated. Wright and Radding
live on. Total time: 53:36. |
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#24: W.O.O.: Mambo Mantis - Head Check: What rock should have been if
it could, what jazz could be if it would, this recording from W.O.O.: Mambo
Mantis features Bonnie Kane (sax, electronics), Blaise Siwula (saxophones),
Will Redmond (guitar, electronics), and Ray Sage (drums, sequences). Says
Bonnie: "Monumental multitudes influence essential collaborators to unfold
petals revealing deep spaces between knowledgeable cells, which is good
. . . allowing metaphysical strains, the imaginary and obscure, to flow
unrestricted by monumental multitudes thereby clearing the air and setting
things straight." Total time: 32:37. |
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#25: Cake of Honey - Sarcastic Shamanism: An ensemble tone poem based
on text by playwright Richard Foreman and a graphic score by Ty Cumbie,
with Ty Cumbie (guitar), Eddy Rollin (oboe, English horn, alto sax, recorders,
ethnic oboes, kalimba), Christopher Hoffman (cello), Adam Lane (bass), Kevin
Zubek (drums), and Dan Jenkins (voice). Recorded live at the Vision Club,
NYC, March 5, 2005. Total time: 38:05. |
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#26: Kelly Pratt - Solo Works for Trumpet and Flugelhorn: Cinematic
solos from New York-based trumpeter Kelly Pratt. "I recorded this album
with the help of a wide variety of electronic effects pedals. The majority
of the compositions are simply predetermined settings on the pedals with
entirely improvised music. The rest are composed structures or melodies
with improvisations layered on top. The six pieces draw their inspiration
from the work of some of my favorite filmmakers: Francois Truffaut, Werner
Herzog, Masaki Kobayashi, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jim Jarmusch, and Terry Gilliam."
Total time: 24:40. |
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#27: Ricardo Arias - Preludios de Latex, The Hague, 1996: "I have used
balloons as musical instruments since 1987. The balloon kit came about in
response to a request from Spanish composer Miquel Jordá to perform exclusively
on balloons for a concert with him in Barcelona in 1992. The recordings
presented here were made at a time when I was reviving the instrument after
some years of inactivity as a balloonist. Since then, the kit has become
my main instrument and has proven to be a versatile tool for timbral improvisation."
Recorded at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague, Netherlands, 1996. Total
time: 48:45. |
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#28: Den & BreadFast - Acoustic & Semiacoustic: Duo works from improvisers
Andrea Belfi (drums) and Andrea Faccioli (guitar) of Verona, Italy. Working
with a palette that combines late-period Coltrane with free-rhythm acoustic
blues, the two create a free-jazz suite full of space, warmth, and energy.
"Den & BreadFast loves: fast & relax, substance, acoustic sounds & sometimes
electric sounds, blues feelings, storm & stress, improvisation, J. Coltrane's
Spazio Interstellare & A. Coltrane's Coscienza Universale, fluctuating arpeggios,
the thin (red) line between rhythm & arrhythm, the voice & the onomatopoeia
as score." Total time: 34:06. |
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#29: Chainworks - Victory Sessions, 2002: Music from the vault, featuring
Dan DeChellis (electric piano/synth), Brian Moran (circuit-bent and other
electronics), and Matt Hannafin (percussion). Recorded in summer 2002 at
ArtScience, NYC (Sasha Victory, proprietor), then left in the barrel to
age. "Formidable . . . alchemical . . . dense and intricate. Shifts quickly
from spacious, textured soundscapes to veritable explosions of noise" --
The Weekly Dig (Boston). "An intricate hubbub . . . [with] piano phrasing,
scales, and contrasting dynamics that recall Stravinsky and Ludoslawski"
-- All-Music Guide. Total time: 56:15 |
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#30: Steve Lofkin - Guitar Sculptures: Shimmering, gliss'ning, improvised
solo guitar sculptures recorded between April and August 2003. "A return
to solo playing on the back of disbanding an acoustic guitar/violin ensemble,
this is a record of my initial pursuit to find an alternative to playing
tunes. Instinctive soundscapes caught at the moment of creation, with occasional
overdubs. A chance to trust the process -- and then leave it alone." Total
time: 46:23. |
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#31: DC Improvisers Collective - Meme & Variations: Five aural views
of a territory mixing jazz improvisation, contemporary composition, and
electronics. By turns meditative, agitated, cerebral, and plaintive, the
ensemble's playing balances open formal structures with an associative sensibility
to create a real-time transmutation of disparate musical elements into coherent
wholes. Featuring Ben Azzara (drums & percussion), Daniel Barbiero (contrabass),
Jonathan Matis (guitar, prepared guitar, electronics), and Mike Sebastian
(tenor & soprano sax, bass clarinet). Total time: 57:08. |
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