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Henry Kuntz: "Double Vision" (Humming Bird, 13) -- Free Download!

Source: Henry Kuntz
August 28, 2015

Double Vision is the third Humming Bird release that actively attempts to extend the formal parameters of free jazz improvisation. The first recordings were Envision New Music and Envision Ensemble Live At Berkeley Arts Festival. The surface of this music will not feel unfamiliar, but the thinking behind it is different; the assumptions underlying it different. Taking off from the idea of “festival form”, the music embodies a kind of meta-archetype. It is less a confluence of interests, musical or ...

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Henry Kuntz: Classic OPEYE: 2 Discs: Free Downloads!

Source: Henry Kuntz
October 31, 2011

Silk! is a companion release to Moss 'Comes Silk (Humming Bird CD 1). It was recorded by engineer Myles Boisen the same two days in September 1995 as the earlier release. It is the only time all of the instruments OPEYE was using in performance were individually miked and recorded in a studio setting. The music is a perfect complement to that on Moss 'Comes Silk. The flavors of Silk! are more subtle, more understated, but the multi-independent musical form ...

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OPEYE ORCHESTRA Free MP3 Download!

Source: Henry Kuntz
May 18, 2011

OPEYE ORCHESTRA Live at Tuva Space (HB CDR 5/6) Free MP3 Download! Two Outrageous Sets of World-Expansive Free Improvised Music! “Along with expanding the range of instruments available for improvisation in a cultural sense, (OPEYE has) been working to expand the formal bounds of improvisation itself. As a group, we have been consciously moving away from what I think of as a lowest common denominator approach to the ways players relate to each other in an improvisational setting. That is, ...

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Henry Kuntz "Sonic Flares" Free CD Download

Source: Henry Kuntz
February 14, 2011

A FREE MP3 Download of my New Release... SONIC FLARES is available on my website SAX & STORIES 1. SONIC FLARES (19:11) Solo Tenor Saxophone Live at Beanbenders, Berkeley, CA October 4, 1998 2. 6 TRACK ANGELS (20:12) Balinese Gamelan (Gender, 10 keys) and Gamelan Selunding (Two 4-key instruments), Javanese Gamelan Pelog (Saron, 7 keys) and Slendro (Saron, 9 keys), Chinese Musette, Drums & Percussion Multi-Track ...

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