Results for "Brock Avery"

Brock Avery

Rhythm Abstraction: Gold

By FRANK MACCHIA

Label: Cacophony
Released: 2020
Track listing: Compulsion; Inquisition; Complication; Anahata; Impatience; Momentum

Rhythm Abstraction: Azure

By FRANK MACCHIA

Label: Cacophony
Released: 2020
Track listing: Echopraxia; Balinese Butterflies; Emma's Dilemma; Last Call; Madness!; Dreams of Salvadore Dali's Llama; Panoply.

Rhythm Abstraction: Ruby

By FRANK MACCHIA

Label: Cacophony
Released: 2020
Track listing: Slither; Dogmented; Apparitions, Gerbil Juggling; Impending Doom, Acceleration; Hallucination.

Frank Macchia / Brock Avery: Rhythm Abstraction: Ruby

By DAN MCCLENAGHAN

Multi-instrumentalist Frank Macchia released his full length CD Rhythm Kaleidoscope (Cacophany Records) in 2018. The compositions were created over a foundation of Brock Avery's multi-layered improvised drum and percussion solos, with Macchia orchestrating a sea of woodwinds and synthesizer sounds, some brass and some prepared piano samples, resulting in a lush and feisty twenty-first century jazz-classical-fusion ...

Frank Macchia / Brock Avery: Rhythm Abstraction: Gold

By DAN MCCLENAGHAN

Muli-reedist Frank Macchia and percussionist Brock Avery started 2020 with their release of Rhythm Abstraction: Azure (Cacophony), a follow-up to 2018's Rhythm Kaleidoscope (Cacophony), employing its predecessor's approach. Here's how it works. Avery lays down an improvised percussion foundation. Then Macchia steps in with just about every imaginable reed instrument to construct an elaborate orchestration—one step, ...

Frank Macchia & Brock Avery: Rhythm Abstraction: Azure

By DAN MCCLENAGHAN

Reedman-arranger-composer Frank Macchia didn't take the conventional route in putting his EP Rhythm Abstractions: Azure together. He didn't get a huge orchestra in one studio, pass out the charts and explain to the players what he was trying to do. What he did was pare the personnel down to a minimum and turn drummer Brock Avery ...

Echopraxia

Album: Rhythm Abstraction: Azure
By FRANK MACCHIA
Label: Cacophony
Released: 2020
Duration: 02:23

Frank Macchia: Rhythm Kaleidoscope

By TROY DOSTERT

With a host of wide-ranging work not only as a musician but also as a producer and arranger for television and film projects, Frank Macchia has never been one to rest on his laurels. Even if you're not familiar with his recordings, chances are you've heard at least one of his many film orchestrations: from The ...