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Exile
By Dan Clucas
Label: pfMentum
Released: 2006
Track listing: Stating the Obvious; You Say (for Bobby Bradford); Exile (for Astor Piazzolla); The Black Horn
(for John Carter); Mothers and Daughters; Wheat and Weeds.
Jeff Kaiser / Tom McNalley: Zugzwang
by Glenn Astarita
Southern Californian experimental improvisers Jeff Kaiser (trumpet, electronics) and Tom McNalley (e-guitar, electronics) embark upon a mischievously bizarre sojourn here. Call it what you will, but this studio session serves as the epitome of crazed-out, avant garde sound-sculpting where just about anything is liable to occur. For the record, this is not spacey New Age-type fodder. ...
Jeff Kaiser / Tom McNalley: Zugzwang
by Jim Santella
Recorded live with no overdubs, this duo album features trumpeter Jeff Kaiser and guitarist Tom McNalley in a creative affair where noise plays a major role. The session is serious, contains plenty of motion, and comes with innumerable surprises. The album's title is a word that refers to forced movement, as in chess. How many times ...
Empty Cage Quartet: Hello The Damage!
by Jack Gold-Molina
Formerly known as the MTKJ Quartet, the Empty Cage Quartet consists of Jason Mears (alto saxophone, clarinet, wood flutes), Kris Tiner (trumpet, flugelhorn), Paul Kikuchi (drums, percussion) and Ivan Johnson (bass). The title of this recording comes from an English translation of a negative French review of one of the MTKJ Quartet's previous releases. Negative French ...
Ellen Burr: Duos
by Nic Jones
The pleasing paradox at the heart of this music is one which encompasses warm-hearted austerity, but if this is a music of moods it's a damn sight more than mood music. Ellen Burr's conception of flute playing takes in extended technique and the vocalising perhaps most readily associated with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, although the degree of ...
Dan Clucas / Immediately: Exile
by Rex Butters
For Exile, longtime Los Angeles cornet count Dan Clucas convenes a quintet he calls Immediately. He uses this rare session as leader to showcase his appealing writing, blistering technique, and good ear for his bandmates. All five improvisers listen hard and create a distinctive sound, equally at ease playing the arrangement or walking in space. Brian ...
Dan Clucas / Immediately: Exile
by Eyal Hareuveni
Cornetist and composer Dan Clucas has been active on the Los Angeles scene for the last fifteen years, but is only now releasing his debut recording. Clucas has recorded with Jeff Kaiser's Ockodektet and Harris Eisenstadt's Ahimsa Orchestra and has performed with Vinny Golia, Nels Cline and Steuart Liebig and Henry Grimes; he also leads another ...
Jeff Kaiser / Andrew Pask / G.E. Stinson / Steuart Liebig: The Choir Boys with Strings
by Jim Santella
In following their duo session, The Choir Boys, with this quartet performance a year later, Jeff Kaiser and Andrew Pask once again reach out into the realm of electronic music, unfettered by convention. The Choir Boys with Strings adds guitar and bass to the mix, giving Kaiser's trumpets and Pask's woodwinds an added layer of sounds. ...
Wayne Peet Quartet: Live at Al’s Bar
by AAJ Italy Staff
La californiana pfMENTUM tira fuori dagli archivi tre quarti d’ora di musica piena di grinta e di suggestioni, registrata in un bar di Los Angeles alla fine di aprile del 1999. La leadership del gruppo è nominalmente accreditata all’organista Wayne Peet ma sul palco i due chitarristi Nels Cline e G.E. Stinson non si tirano certo ...
