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The Other One(s)

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Label: Kreating SounD
Released: 2023
Duration: 00:32:30
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Tracks

1 – why can’t they just…#2 (8) 7:30 2 – Crash (7) 4:40 3 – Some Broken Machine (4B) 6:22 4 – Despaired (4C) 7:34 5 – Unrequited Languages (9) 6:24

Personnel

Vinny Golia

woodwinds

Bret Sexton

saxophone, alto

Farrell Lowe

guitar, electric

Bill McCrossen

bass

Ron Coulter

drums

Additional Personnel / Information

Vinny Golia : piccolo flute & clarinet Bret Sexton : alto saxophone & electronics Farrell Lowe : electric guitar & effects pedals Bill McCrossen : upright bass, electric fretless bass with slide, cello with looper, waterphone & mbira Ron Coulter : drum set, percussion, low-fi electronics & found objects All compositions by Vinny Golia, Bret Sexton, Farrell Lowe, Bill McCrossen, and Ron Coulter Recorded July 23, 2022 at Mighty Fine Productions in Denver, CO Audio recording by Loren Dorland Audio mixing, mastering & graphic design by Ron Coulter Cover Image from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection, Open Access Media Project, CC0 License

Album Description

https://sefaloco.bandcamp.com/album/the-other-one-s Free Improvisation VINNY GOLIA has presented his music to concert audiences in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States in ensembles varying dramatically in size and instrumentation; in 1982 he created the ongoing 50-piece Vinny Golia Large Ensemble to perform his compositions for chamber orchestra and jazz ensembles. A multi-woodwind performer, Vinny’s recordings have been consistently picked by critics and readers of music publications for their yearly “ten best” lists. In 1990 he was the winner of the Jazz Times TDWR award for Bass Saxophone. In 1998 he ranked 1st in the Cadence Magazine Writers & Readers Poll and has continually placed in the Downbeat Critic’s Poll for Baritone & Soprano Saxophone. In 1999 Vinny won the LA Weekly’s Award for “Best Jazz Musician”. Jazziz Magazine has also named him as one of the 100 people who have influenced the course of Jazz in our Century. In 2006 The Jazz Journalists Association honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2013 Vinny won the Downbeat Critic’s Poll in the “New Star” category for Baritone Saxophone. Vinny has been a featured performer with Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Tim Berne, Henry Grimes, John Carter, Bobby Bradford, Joelle Leandre, Leo Smith, Horace Tapscott, Bertram Turetzky, George Lewis, Barre Phillips, The Rova Saxophone Quartet, Eugene Chadburne, Kevin Ayers, Peter Kowald, Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennick, Harry Sparrney and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and many others. Vinny has won numerous awards as a composer, including grants from The National Endowment of the Arts, The Lila Wallace Commissioning Program, The California Arts Council, Meet the Composer, Clausen Foundation of the Arts, and the American Composer’s Forum. SeFa LoCo formed in May 2021, the context was the Creative Music Series (2019-2021) founded and curated by Ron Coulter in Casper, WY. The quartet, comprised of Bret Sexton (alto saxophone & electronics), Farrell Lowe (electric guitar), Mike Facey (bass), and Ron Coulter (drumset, percussion, electronics) has released several albums on Right Brain Records, Kreating SounD, and BretSextonMusic; including their album “Entanglements” with trumpeter, Hugh Ragin. Facey relocated to the East Coast in 2021 and the group has continued to perform and record with bassist Bill McCrossen. Vinny Golia 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 sound worlds. BRET SEXTON grew up in Riverton, WY and moved to Denver, CO in 1992 to attend the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music. After discovering a passion for music outside of the academic realm, he withdrew from school to pursue his musical vision, and led the bands Trio Fungus, Sanskrit, and many others. His group Sanskrit performed for Denver’s Creative Music Works through the mid 1990s. Their album, “Live at Seven South” was reviewed by Cadence Magazine, saying: “Sexton is a passionate pointillist-expressionist, his playing is full of the unfettered imagination, fervent arrogance and tonal unpredictability that makes for a distinctive improviser.” Bret has also played alongside musicians such as Joe Bonner, Hugh Ragin, Nate Wooley, Shane Endsley, Kaveh Rastagar of Kneebody, Rudy Royston, Farrell Lowe, and Ryan Seward. He studied briefly with local saxophone legend, Fred Hess, and his albums are available at bretsexton.bandcamp.com and bretsextonquartet.bandcamp.com. FARRELL LOWE is a guitarist, and an extraordinary one at that. His work spans jazz, experimental, world fusion and free improvisation. But “guitarist” barely scratches the surface of a multi-faceted artist who has made creativity his life’s work. Prolific is another term well-placed in Farrell’s bio. He continues to challenge limits and publish music that defies categorization, at a mind-boggling rate. He’s also an accomplished stoneworker, painter, woodworker, and instrument maker. Over the past 30 years, BILL McCROSSEN has recorded and performed in orchestras, Broadway musicals, commercials and television productions, across the New York tristate area. Bill was a professor of Jazz History at the Hartford Conservatory of Music and taught bass and jazz improvisation at Five Towns College. Bill has had the pleasure of performing and/or recording with Michael and Randy Brecker, Clark Terry, Ray Anderson, Gene Bertoncini, Harold Mabern, Kenny Werner, Eliot Zigmund, Adam Nussbaum, Jerry Granelli, and Art Lande to name a few. Bill is a member of the New York based free improvising quartet called "INNERrOUTe". Bill relocated to Colorado in 2014 and is active in the Denver-metro area Jazz and Brazilian music scenes, performing regularly at major festivals, and venues such as Dazzle and Nocturne. Bill performs on a variety of African instruments (Kamale Ngoni, Guembri, Mbira and Kora) in addition to the upright and fretless electric basses. RON COULTER is a percussionist, composer, and improviser. He has presented at 100+ universities and has toured internationally appearing in 50 U.S. states, Europe, Canada, and Japan with artists such as the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Chicago Chamber Orchestra, David Murray, Sam Newsome, Vinny Golia, Linux Laptop Orchestra, Matthew Shipp, Nate Wooley, Sandy Duncan, Bolokada Condé, Music from China, Youngstown Symphony, Gino Robair, Michael Zerang, Eric Mandat, Chris Corsano, and Tone Road Ramblers, among others. Ron has presented at numerous conferences, including: ISIM, PASIC, NIME, BMC3, JEN, CMS, a.pe.ri.od.ic, Futurisms, Soundlines, RadiaLx, and the JVC and Montreal Jazz Festivals. He is co-founder of the Percussion Art Ensemble, duende entendre, Marble Hammer, Drm&Gtr, and founder of the Southern Illinois Improvisation Series and Creative Music Series. Additional interests include noise, intermedia, interdisciplinary collaboration, and organizing Fluxconcerts. As a composer, Ron has created more than 430 compositions for various media.

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