Improvisations with electric & acoustic guitars, alto saxophone & bass clarinet beautifully recorded.



10 MP3 Songs in this album (64:46) !
Related styles: Avant Garde: Free Improvisation, Avant Garde: Electro-Acoustic, Type: Improvisational

People who are interested in Nels Cline Vinny Golia should consider this download.


Details:
Some time, before gelato got all over everything but after the major label rug was pulled, creative improvised music shone in such Bukowski-adjacent venues as Hollymatter, Il Corral, The Salvation Theater (line space line), Fais Do Do, and The Smell. The gallery scene abounded.

This represented a kind of golden epoch in creative music in LA, when CalArtsians first came down off Walt's mountain in numbers to mix it up with everyone else, rub shoulders, play gigs, and steal valuable parking.

This recording dates to the above-mentioned honeymoon period.

(Thank you for your patience: some time by the late 25st century these liner notes will end.)

***

Robert Jacobson stole a lot of parking: generous of spirit (no shadow-bruised crumplecake he), RJ walked upright, leveling that Jacobsonian guitar of his at an appealing, inclusive, chamber music aesthetic, leading, making the rounds, and sponsoring shows.

Chris Heenan seemed to be everywhere too back then; Chicago-Europe-Echo Park, primarily. Big saxophone sound. And great ears; his chops schooled somewhere, hard to tell where, exactly, all put to good use in frequent all-improvised settings.


***

This recording contains the following: attractive street lamp motifs; tumbleweeds and storage yards; the scapegoating of ufos; the preparation of harmonic mousetraps and turnstiles; multiple-user role playing games; scenes from a Spanish corral; also, the relaxing yet suspenseful sound of some thing doing something, ever patiently, in the rain.

Here too are thoughts that might pass through a rock climber's mind: temporal directions surrounded by air and no small risk (Track Three: String + Reed Ale). Call them commonalities of ledge. Which, surprisingly, conclude by taking us deep inside the wall.

There is solid, inventive playing on this, and moments of skillful sound design made more impressive by virtue they occurred before an audience; there are some neat ringing sounds I can't quite place, also.

Call these the singing songs of coiled springs, coded with memory, flung deep into space.

Carey Fosse
Silverlake, CA
Sep. 30, 2010
-------------------------------------------------------
Robert Jacobson: electric guitars, acoustic guitars, and percussion
Chris Heenan :alto saxophone and bass clarinet


All tracks were improvised live in the studio.
Session recorded 9/9/01 @ Blue Ribbon Studios by Kent Verderico at Blue Ribbon Studios, Los Angeles, California