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While We Still Have Bodies: While We Still Have Bodies

Read "While We Still Have Bodies" reviewed by Tyran Grillo

by Tyran Grillo
February 23, 2018

While We Still Have Bodies names the collaboration of trombonist Ben Gerstein, bassist Sean Ali, saxophonist Michael Foster, and percussionist Flin van Hemmen. The more one listens to their spontaneous creations, however, the less important such roster division becomes, receding in deference to forces without proper name. To achieve such effect is no small task, for it requires a selflessness that can only come from musicians who understand themselves.In this hour-long free improvisation consisting of tape collages, lo-fi ...

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While We Still Have Bodies: While We Still Have Bodies

Read "While We Still Have Bodies" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 14, 2018

Has music always been about making something from nothing? Before the invention of instruments, birds sang and nature kept time. Jimi reminded us, “and the wind cried Mary." Before notes on a page, there was just blank paper, after notes, came improvisation and things got interesting. Class dismissed.I'm betting the quartet While We Still Have Bodies follows the lesson above, applying the concept of devolution. Not the classical definition of transfer of rights, powers, property to another, but ...