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Stephan Crump: What Does Water Want?

By David Bixler | Liner Notes
May 8, 2024
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Slow Water is the latest release from bassist and composer Stephan Crump. In this ambitious 67 minute work, Crump explores how society uses water and addresses the question "What does water want?" as proposed by Erica Gies in her 2022 book Water Always Wins. For this project he assembled a new ensemble comprised of musicians with which he had little previous history with the goal of creating both a band and music that flowed in an improvisatory manner similar to water. This episode features music from Stephan Crump's Slow Water.

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