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Ergo: Multitude, Solitude

Read "Multitude, Solitude" reviewed by Nic Jones


This is a trio working the electro-acoustic margins, as the instrumental line-up might suggest; and whilst Ergo's music often flirts with ambient notions, there is equally a predominant air of unease about their work, as if by mutual consent they can only reach a kind of uneasy rapprochement with both silence and the moment. The air ...

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Ergo: Multitude, Solitude

Read "Multitude, Solitude" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Keyboardist Carl Maguire is a multifaceted artiste, often-heralded for his work in various jazz-related formats for Between The Lines, MoonJune Records and other progressive record labels. On this trio's second CD, Maguire, trombonist/computer operator Brett Sroka and drummer Shawn Baltazor spawn an experimental muse, where rigid definitions or categorizations, justifiably fall flat. Essentially, the respective artists ...

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Ergo: Multitude, Solitude

Read "Multitude, Solitude" reviewed by John Kelman


As jazz leans away from characteristics that so defined its earliest days, groups are emerging with unorthodox instrumental combinations, fleshed out by the vast potential of technological soundscaping. Ergo, at its core, seems as unconventional as they get--trombone, keyboards, drums--creating music that wouldn't have been possible before relatively recent innovations in sound processing and sampling/looping. Its ...

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Multitude, Solitude

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Rana Sylvatica; Vessel; She Haunts Me; Little Shadow; Endlessly (multitude, solitude); Actuator.

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Celebrate Cuneiform Records Download Week: Free MP3s by Wadada Leo Smith, Ergo, Zevious, Jason Adasiewic and Beat Circus

Download five free MP3s courtesy of Cuneiform Records. She Haunts Me (3:41) Ergo From: Multitude, Solitude Cuneiform Records South Central L.A. Kulture (4:50) Wadada Leo Smith From: Spiritual Dimensions Cuneiform Records Where's the Captain? (5:10) Zevious ...

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Quality Anatomechanical Music Since 2005

Label: Actuator
Released: 2006
Track listing: Elephants (& Sycophants); Cecropia Song (for Janna); Salt; Metaphilia; "Today The Americans"; Earthlings; Trees On Top Of Buildings.

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Ergo: Quality Anatomechanical Music Since 2005

Read "Quality Anatomechanical Music Since 2005" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Ergo, lead by Brett Sroka, has been performing for about a year, and Quality Anatomechanical Music Since 2005 is a terrific album of sounds, moods and emotions. The trio is completed by Carl Maguire, who recently released the outstanding Floriculture (Between the Lines, 2005), on various electronic keyboards and synthesizers; and Damion Reid, a very fine ...

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Label: Self Produced
Released: 0


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