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Denman Maroney

“Pianists have been tinkering with the guts of their instruments for nearly a century now, but it’s altogether likely that no one has explored the art of prepared piano as diligently or creatively as ‘hyperpianist’ Denman Maroney.” —Time Out New York The music of "hyperpianist" Denman Maroney is inspired by the sounds of crickets and carpenters' tools among other things and by the music of Cage, Coleman, Cowell, Ellington, Ives, Joplin, Messiaen, Monk, Nancarrow and Stockhausen among others. Maroney uses a set of extended piano performance techniques he calls hyperpiano, which involves bowing or sliding the strings with copper bars, metal bowls, rubber blocks, and plastic boxes and gives him a unique, special and beautiful vocabulary

Martingale

By DENMAN MARONEY

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Martingale, Curl, Blind Love, Off Centerpiece, All in the Loop, New One Two, Time's Out, Peer to Peer, Primal Sympathy, Sea Set Wheat, Set Sea Sank

Solo @70

By DENMAN MARONEY

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: A Thought Revolved; Arrhythmia; Air Condition; Blip; Blind Love; Curl; Detach & Retain; Double You; Epistropholes; Every Day; Fowler's Better Blues; Frogs; Iteratio; I'm Yours; Jug; Lattice; Kilter; MC; Long Odds; Nero; One Off, Or Two; New One Two; Off Centerpiece; Peer to Peer; Primal Sympathy; Pulse Field; Sank Sea Set; Pulsations; Sea Set Wheat; Selonica; Set Sea Sank; Social Security; Sombriety; The One; Time's Out; Unknown Knowns; Vortex; Whamapo.

Denman Maroney: Solo @70

By KARL ACKERMANN

Denman Maroney, best-known for his use of the dual-keyboard hyper piano, celebrates his seventieth birthday with a massive collection of solo pieces played on the traditional piano. However, there is little traditional about [email protected] Maroney's sizable catalog of over forty releases includes several solo projects; the previous such album, Domicil Solo (Live) (Self Produced, 2017) consisting ...

Pearring Sound: True Story

By KARL ACKERMANN

Colorado native Jeff Pearring began studying the alto saxophone at the age of ten but pursued a career in economics before turning back to music. With a broad range of experiences that encompassed symphonic bands, ska and reggae, it was Pearring's affinity for jazz that guided him upon arriving in New York. Pearring studied with Connie ...

Simon Nabatov / Mark Dresser: Projections

By JOHN SHARPE

Projections captures an improvised duo encounter between émigré Russian pianist Simon Nabatov and Californian bassist Mark Dresser. Although they first played together as part of German composer Klaus Konig's Orchestra in 1992, it's taken until now for their first head to head. Both are masters of their respective instruments, articulate, persuasive and responsive. They come together ...

Steve Olson: The Ruthless Shapes of Paradise

By BUDD KOPMAN

From the opening bell, which sounds for all the world like that which signals the beginning of a Zen meditation session, The Ruthless Shapes of Paradise creates a wondrous, ethereal and all-encompassing time/space continuum all of its own. Drummer/percussionist Steve Olson, whose previous album, Conversations explored free improvisation between himself and various other instrumentalists, ...

Hans Tammen / Denman Maroney: Arson

By EYAL HAREUVENI

Hyper-pianist Denman Maroney, known for his ongoing collaborations featuring double bass master Mark Dresser with the experimental sound artist and conceptual explorer of the so- called “endangered guitar" Hans Tammen, have been working together since 1998 as a duo and in other formations. Unfortunately, until now the innovative work of this unique duo was documented only ...

Mark Dresser: Nourishments

By DAVE WAYNE

Well-established as one of the foremost virtuoso contrabassists on the face of the planet, Mark Dresser has turned his attention to a variety of other projects over the past few years. The former member of Anthony Braxton's “classic" quartet with drummer Gerry Hemingway and pianist Marilyn Crispell, Dresser's best known recent work has been with drummer ...

Mark Dresser Quintet: Nourishments

By GLENN ASTARITA

Influential master bassist Mark Dresser leads his first quintet outing in nearly two decades. His complex compositions span an abundance of odd-metered time signatures, whether the song forms are buoyant, temperate or soul-searching. It's a very involved storyline that yields fruitful rewards. Indeed, the program is a kaleidoscopic ride that includes brash or probing solos by ...