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Damon Smith, Peter Kowald, Joëlle Léandre & Bertram Turetzky: Bass Duos 2000​-​2007

Read "Bass Duos 2000​-​2007" reviewed by Jeff Schwartz


One function of recordings is to document a performer's development. Damon Smith's Bass Duos 2000-2007 not only captures his artistic and technical evolution, his choice of duet partners represents the expanded options for the bass in creative music since the 1960s. Two of the three discs in this set were previously released, but ...

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Volumes & Surfaces

Label: Balance Point Acoustics
Released: 2022
Track listing: Heterodox Symmetry; The Deaf Voice Of The Light; Blue Isn't For Sitting; The Non Dimension Of The Present; Clearly, Blue Is For Sitting.

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Jason Stein / Damon Smith / Adam Shead: Volumes & Surfaces

Read "Volumes & Surfaces" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Damon Smith might be the hardest working man in show business. Free-jazz show business, that is. If there is a performance or recording somewhere in the States or Europe, there is a very good chance his double bass is in attendance. You name an improvising artist and he's recorded with them, from Roscoe Mitchell to Joe ...

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Bass Duos 2000​-​2007

Label: Balance Point Acoustics
Released: 2021
Track listing: Peter Kowald & Damon Smith Broken Mirrors April 28th 1; Peter Kowald & Damon Smith Broken Mirrors April 28th 2; Peter Kowald & Damon Smith Reflections on April 28th 1; Peter Kowald & Damon Smith Reflections on April 28th 2; Peter Kowald & Damon Smith Reflections on April 28th 3; Peter Kowald & Damon Smith Reflections on April 28th 4; Peter Kowald & Damon Smith Reflections on April 28th 5; Peter Kowald & Damon Smith Reflections on April 28th 6; Peter Kowald & Damon Smith Reflections on April 28th 7; Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Throw off the Husk; Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Ancestor & the Future; Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Lost & Lucid; Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Time Dries Up (DS solo); Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Mirrors Without Dust; Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Uweaving the Threads (JL solo); Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Listening to the Same Blood; Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Hive of Instants (DS solo); Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Building our Erosions; Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Flowers Without Venom; Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Unfingers its Grasp; Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Sky Without Birds; Bertram Turetzky & Damon Smith Vulturegrip; Bertram Turetzky & Damon Smith Coalmarked; Bertram Turetzky & Damon Smith Chalkravine; Bertram Turetzky & Damon Smith Woodsong; Bertram Turetzky & Damon Smith Slickensides; Bertram Turetzky & Damon Smith Southbright; Bertram Turetzky & Damon Smith Northtrue.

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Article: Multiple Reviews

The Pandemic Sessions: Duos, Part 1

Read "The Pandemic Sessions: Duos, Part 1" reviewed by Mark Corroto


After the initial shock of the COVID-19 crisis and subsequent lockdown, artists did what artists do. Unable to tour, many musicians created solo projects. Musicians, like other sentient beings though, crave contact, so when some of the most severe restrictions lifted, duos were formed and production returned. These small positive steps (note: some were recorded before ...

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Whatever Is Not Stone Is Light

Label: Balance Point Acoustics
Released: 2020
Track listing: Limitless Autumn; The Embers Of The Year; Noon Nests In Your Inner Ear; The Sky Hides All Its Birds; Broken Mirrors Where The World Sees Itself Shattered; Flayed Sun; Night Of Wheat; Conduits Of Bone; Erasing Landscape; The Eye Retreats; Kneading Trough; Uncertain Foliage; Three Clouds & These Few Words; Heat Rested; Waiting Water; From Dream To Watching; Fire & Lichen; Edicts Of Salt; Thirst Wakes & Builds; From Yellow To Red; From Green To Yellow; Word With No Back To It; I Sun-Bone.

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Damon Smith: Whatever Is Not Stone Is Light

Read "Whatever Is Not Stone Is Light" reviewed by Mark Corroto


A well-known standing joke instructs a concert goer that the proper time to have a conversation during a performance is to wait for the bass solo. Maybe that joke is funny because it does happen all too often. Try as one might, though, it is impossible to get side-tracked during this solo bass performance by Damon ...

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Nearly Extinct

Label: Balance Point Acoustics
Released: 2016
Track listing: East Cape Yupik; Broome Pearling; !Kung; Boonting; Hixxkaryana; Nunatsiavummiutu; Gross Koiari.

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Three from Henry Kaiser on Balance Point Acoustics

Read "Three from Henry Kaiser on Balance Point Acoustics" reviewed by John Eyles


The Balance Point Acoustics label was set up by double bassist Damon Smith in 2001 to document his own music. In the years since, the label has issued a steady stream of recordings, most featuring Smith. Significantly, the first of the label's releases not to include the bassist was the 2006 Henry Kaiser solo album Domo ...

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Henry Kaiser/Steve Parker/Damon Smith/Chris Cogburn: Nearly Extinct

Read "Nearly Extinct" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The title of this improvising free jazz quartet's release Nearly Extinct, is a reference to the current state of instant composing. The cover lists various players (Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane), Bands (ICP Orchestra, SME, AMM, AACM, ISKRA 1903), and refers to differing scenes from San Francisco to London and Wuppertal. That title ...


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