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Rich Johnson
One of the bold new experimentalists in New York City, northern Minnesota
born trumpeter Rich Johnson explores a mix of trumpet, acoustic guitar and
piano with laptop glitch, sampling, and musique concrète. Blending his many
influences-including Bob Dylan, Don Cherry, Low, Kenneth Gaburo, Jimmy
Giufffre, Fugazi-in creating Up the Turret Mil, his first solo
release.
The fourth release on Eivind Opsvik’s Loyal Label, Up the Turret Mil is a
collection of eleven generously diverse tracks. Many of the songs began as
experiments with laptop and electronic-acoustic treatments on the trumpet.
A vast majority of the sounds throughout the recording are sculpted out of
Johnson’s sampled trumpet playing.
Starting quietly, the album smolders over the opening two tracks
Up The Turret Mil
By Rich Johnson
Label: Loyal Label
Released: 2009
Track listing: Squinting Skyward; Star Rover; Ignite a Noise; Harvester; The Loves of Zero; Shoreline
Frequency; I Trap Totem Pulp; After a Tectonic Melt Purr; Following Transparency Monodies;
Up the Turret Mil; Last Town Mile.
Rich Johnson: Up the Turret Mil
by Nic Jones
Trumpeter Rich Johnson might be said to be engaging with the present; in a way, that's true of so few of his contemporaries. He produces music that's steeped in the culture of sampling, and similar examples of magpie-like curiosity. At the same time, he fashions music that is as striking as anything out there. This is ...
Rich Johnson: Up The Turret Mil
by Lyn Horton
Voices tell stories; they penetrate their surroundings so that the stories warrant attention. They may have a subject that is self-referential, these are the times it is interesting to follow the flow. No clearer can it be than in Up The Turret Mil from trumpeter Rich Johnson. This record may be publicized as experimental, but perhaps ...
Rich Johnson: Up the Turret Mil
by Mark F. Turner
Rich Johnson's first solo release delicately meshes acoustic instruments (acoustic guitar, piano and trumpet) with technology (laptop computer and sampling) to create a fascinating collage of sound. Like seminal artists, the New York based musician is adept in both traditional and nontraditional idioms as witnessed on saxophonist Jason Rigby's Translucent Space (Fresh Sound, 2006) and on ...
Rich Johnson: Up The Turret Mil
by Mark Corroto
If something exists in the netherworld, it is said to be living in hereafter," or the afterworld." This ethereal theme, with its delicate, vaporous connotations is the subject matter of trumpeter Rich Johnson's Up The Turret Mil.While not a native of the Netherlands in either possible connotation, this New York artist produces sounds from ...
"Up the Turret Mil" out Now on Loyal Label
On his first solo recording, Rich Johnson explores a mix of trumpets, guitars, and pianos with laptop glitch, sampling, and musique concrète. Many of the songs began as experiments with laptop and electronic-acoustic treatments on the trumpet, and bridge Johnson’s many influences – from free jazz to folk music. Based in NYC, Johnson was part of ...