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The Pandemic Sessions: Duos, Part 1
by Mark Corroto
After the initial shock of the COVID-19 crisis and subsequent lockdown, artists did what artists do. Unable to tour, many musicians created solo projects. Musicians, like other sentient beings though, crave contact, so when some of the most severe restrictions lifted, duos were formed and production returned. These small positive steps (note: some were recorded before ...
Whatever Is Not Stone Is Light
By Damon Smith
Label: Balance Point Acoustics
Released: 2020
Track listing: Limitless Autumn; The Embers Of The Year; Noon Nests In Your Inner Ear; The Sky Hides All Its
Birds; Broken Mirrors Where The World Sees Itself Shattered; Flayed Sun; Night Of Wheat;
Conduits Of Bone; Erasing Landscape; The Eye Retreats; Kneading Trough; Uncertain Foliage;
Three Clouds & These Few Words; Heat Rested; Waiting Water; From Dream To Watching; Fire &
Lichen; Edicts Of Salt; Thirst Wakes & Builds; From Yellow To Red; From Green To Yellow; Word
With No Back To It; I Sun-Bone.
Damon Smith: Whatever Is Not Stone Is Light
by Mark Corroto
A well-known standing joke instructs a concert goer that the proper time to have a conversation during a performance is to wait for the bass solo. Maybe that joke is funny because it does happen all too often. Try as one might, though, it is impossible to get side-tracked during this solo bass performance by Damon ...
Nearly Extinct
By Damon Smith
Label: Balance Point Acoustics
Released: 2016
Track listing: East Cape Yupik; Broome Pearling; !Kung; Boonting; Hixxkaryana;
Nunatsiavummiutu; Gross Koiari.
Three from Henry Kaiser on Balance Point Acoustics
by John Eyles
The Balance Point Acoustics label was set up by double bassist Damon Smith in 2001 to document his own music. In the years since, the label has issued a steady stream of recordings, most featuring Smith. Significantly, the first of the label's releases not to include the bassist was the 2006 Henry Kaiser solo album Domo ...
Henry Kaiser/Steve Parker/Damon Smith/Chris Cogburn: Nearly Extinct
by Mark Corroto
The title of this improvising free jazz quartet's release Nearly Extinct, is a reference to the current state of instant composing. The cover lists various players (Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane), Bands (ICP Orchestra, SME, AMM, AACM, ISKRA 1903), and refers to differing scenes from San Francisco to London and Wuppertal. That title ...
Burns Longer
Label: Balance Point Acoustics
Released: 2014
Track listing: Archiduc 1; Archiduc 2; Archiduc 3.
From-To-From
Label: Balance Point Acoustics
Released: 2014
Track listing: Ut. Dict.; From-To-From; Which Way is Out?; B,B,B'S x 6/8; Goodtime FFA;
Q.D.
The Latest Adventures of Dutch Sound Poet Jaap Blonk
by Eyal Hareuveni
Innovative Dutch vocal artist Jaap Blonk has created his own highly personal sound poetry. His vocal acrobatics are still an essential element of his sound palette but not an exclusive one. Since 2000 Blonk has developed new means and methods to expand and experiment with his vocals, with live sampling of his vocals, addition of electronics, ...
Fred Van Hove / Peter Jacquemyn / Damon Smith: Burns Longer
by Eyal Hareuveni
This unique, ad-hoc trio features Belgian master pianist Fred Van Hove, one of the architects of European free improvised music and close collaborator of influential European improvisers such as German reed man Peter Brötzmann, late bassist Peter Kowald, Dutch drummer Han Bennink, fellow countryman and double bassist (and sculptor) Peter Jacquemyn. Both of them rarely recorded ...
