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Jeff Arnal

Jeff Arnal is an American percussionist, and the Executive Director of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville, NC.

Since the 1990s Arnal has worked as an artist, curator, community organizer, and arts administrator. In 2002 he performed a series of duo concerts with Charles Gayle at Tonic in NYC. In 2008 his trio with John Dierker and Gordon Beeferman performed at the Vision Festival in NYC and in 2009 MEJA, his percussion duo with Michael Evans, performed live on WFMU radio in East Orange, NJ and at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY.

He co-founded Improvised and Otherwise, a multidisciplinary festival in Brooklyn, NY in 2002, and throughout the 2000s organized On the Way Out, a monthly music series at Freddy’s Bar in Brooklyn, NY. From 2012-2016, Arnal was the Senior Music and Performance Specialist at the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in Philadelphia, PA.

Drum Major Instinct

Label: Mahakala Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Walking In Rotterdam; Modulating Bodies; Live At Citizen Vinyl.

Blaise Siwula, Vattel Cherry and Jeff Arnal: Expositions of Freedom...Now!

by Derek Taylor
September 30, 2001

Under the unifying sobriquet of Expositions of Freedom...Now! the trio of Blaise Siwula, Vattel Cherry and Jeff Arnal is an aggregate that seizes the process of spontaneous composition as its central fuel source. Siwula and Cherry's association hearkens back half a decade to where the two met in a Cecil Taylor large ensemble. The saxophonist has ...

Pail Bug with Dietrich Eichmann, John Hughes, Astrid Weins, Jeff Arnal

Label: Generate Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: 1. First Pail 8:28 2. Second Pail 13:19 3. Third Pail 11:48 4. Fourth Pail 6:16 5. Fifth Pail 7:06

Silver Ash: Silver Ash

by Glenn Astarita
November 5, 2011

Brooklyn, NY-based drummer Jeff Arnal also runs Generate Records, a label steeped in a vastly experimental paradigm, featuring works by pianist Gordon Beeferman, reedman John Dierker, and a host of well-known improvisers. During the past few years, Arnal has been issuing 7" LPs which, in most instances, yield a classic analogue spectrum, enhancing the organic or ...

Transit: Quadrologues & Nate Wooley: The Seven Storey Mountain

by Clifford Allen
November 7, 2009

The work of trumpeter Nate Wooley falls into a number of camps: free improvisation, experimental noise or restructuralist post-bop. It would be easy to lump him in with a young trumpeters/ extended techniques setting but Wooley is decidedly an individual. And while brass players tend to elicit an expected bravura, Wooley is very much at home ...

Generate Records

by Marc Medwin
August 12, 2009

"It was the DIY movement that inspired me to create a platform for projects that I thought should see the light of day," says percussionist Jeff Arnal of his label, Generate Records. “Friends and I used to make cassettes, which we would distribute in small quantities, but the label format and moving to CDs has allowed ...

Dog Day

By Aaron Dugan

Label: C3R
Released: 2008
Track listing: Pyrene; Trickum Shoals; Pisco; Flutter Code; Lenora; Magic Hour; APP; Dead in the Water; Collision; Lisboa; Last Legs; Allenby; Paz; Patch of Yellow and Blue.

Live In Hamburg

By Jeff Arnal

Label: Editions Brokenresearch
Released: 2007

Rogue States

By Jeff Arnal

Label: Generate Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Split Screen; To Draw Us Near; Limb from Limb; Oh It's You; Pirouette on a Pin; Three-Wheeled Ride; Sanctum; Auuk; Whirler-Wanderer; In White Haze; Terra Infirma; Rift & Resonance; Enemy Static.