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Esoteria

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Label: Rightbrain Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 00:31:40
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Tracks

1 – Grit 6:31 2 – Pushing 5:17 3 – Pulses 8:59 4 – Rise 10:53

Personnel

Sam Newsome

saxophone, soprano

Bret Sexton

saxophone, alto

Farrell Lowe

guitar, electric

Matt Smiley

bass

Ron Coulter

drums

Additional Personnel / Information

Sam Newsome : soprano saxophone & prepared soprano saxophone Bret Sexton : alto saxophone & electronics Farrell Lowe : guitar & effects pedals Matt Smiley : upright bass Ron Coulter : drum set, percussion, low-fi electronics & found objects All compositions by Sam Newsome, Bret Sexton, Farrell Lowe, Matt Smiley, and Ron Coulter Recorded October 1, 2022 at Mighty Fine Productions in Denver, CO Audio recording by Loren Dorland Audio mixing, mastering & graphic design by Ron Coulter

Album Description

SeFa LoCo is a free improv quartet that came together 2021. The context was the Creative Music Series, founded and curated by percussionist and composer Ron Coulter in Casper, Wyoming. Often recording with notable special guests, they've released several albums on Right Brain Records, Kreating SounD, and BretSextonMusic. The group records and performs in the Western U.S. On this album, SeFa LoCo is joined by renowned New York-based soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome. Many of the notes and sounds that comprise his playing are derived from his own palette of extended techniques: multi-phonics, flutter tonguing, percussive slap tonguing, soprano saxophone specific micro-tones, key clicks and acoustic sound manipulation, Newsome sees himself more along the lines of a visual artist who paints with notes and sounds rather than shapes and colors. In his words, this is “a type of improvisatory art music in which jazz functions more as a resource than a musical genre to be interpreted with stylistic specificity." Even though Newsome’s approach is unorthodox, it has proven to be very fruitful—musically and critically. Sam Newsome and SeFa LoCo share the musical languages of jazz, free jazz, free improvisation, and noise music. Their melding of acoustic and electronic sounds is fluid, often confounding the listener. Their playing complements, contrasts, and constantly pushes forward in new, unknown directions, generating complex, unexpected sonic worlds.

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