This is contemporary experimental music.
Totally improvised compositions.

10 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Noise, JAZZ: Free Jazz



Details:
Mysterium is a project

designed to function

as a worldwide bridge-way

to isolated improvising artists,

of multiple mediums, cultures, disciplines,

genders and generations,

to come together

and engage in new work.

Due to the rotation of concept

and personnel,

it has a built in mechanism

to keep things new and fresh,

to push and challenge those involved,

throwing them into new territories

and experiences,

creating a more expansive

and visceral work.


â¢Eric Eigner â Extended Drumset, Sound Effects, Clarinet

Eric Eigner is a drummer who does not need to rely upon the use of sticks and drums to get his point across, though he certainly loves to incorporate them into the fold of what he does. He prefers the use of fireworks and chains, 50cent horns and elephant calls. He has learned from the best and desires to be none of them.

Eric has worked with: Assif Tsahar, Marty Ehrlich, Steve Swell, Sabir Mateen, Walter Thompsons' New York Soundpainting Orchestra, The CAVEnsemble, Shinichi MOMO Koga, Burnt Sugar, Reuben Radding, and many more .

"Mysterium," one of Eigners' working projects, released its first CD, for trio, in 2004, on Eigners' own Eavesdrop Records. The recording features Downtown Reeds Hero Daniel Carter, and Stunt Guitarist Morgan Craft, alongside Eigner on Extended Drumset and Clarinet. It received international airplay and press, and was nominated into the top 10 albums released that year, in both Italy and Greece.

His second release, now out on Eavesdrop Records, is "Mysterium - for Quintet." It features Steve Swell on trombone and Hammond Organ; Daniel Carter on Reeds, Brass, and Woodwinds; Gil Selinger on Cello, Electric Cello and Hammond Organ, Terence Murren on Bass and Electric Bass, and Eigner, again on Extended Drumset and Clarinet. This album is of Double Length.

Eigner is also working to release a duet album with Valve Trombonist, Laptop Artist, Christian Pincock by midyear, 2006. Eigner is a member of Walter Thompsonâs New York Soundpainting Orchestra where he plays Sound Effects, Clarinet, and Extended Drumset. He is involved in a growing number of working musical situations in NYC, with both local and international talent alike.

Eigner is a working visual artist, who exhibits in NYC, in addition to being a musician.


â¢Gil Selinger - Cellist, Composer, SoundPainting Conductor.

As a cellist, Gil's background is in Classical, Jazz, and Free Improvisation. All of which he has merged into a style called Classical Improvisation. Gil has appeared in every major music space in New York City including Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, Lincoln Center, and downtown at Tonic, the Knitting Factory and others. Gil has also appeared on tour throughout Europe, the USA, Australia, New Zealand.

Gil has several working groups that he is involved in right now. A duo with Pianist Evan Mazunik, the SP4Tet a soundpainting string quartet, Mysterium an improvisational quintet with Eric Eigner, Daniel Carter, Steve Swell, and Terence Murren. And a trio with Jessica Pavone and Terence Murren. He also performs with the Walter Thompson Orchestra, and performs and conducts with the NY SoundPainting Orchestra. All of these groups have recordings in various stages of production. Additionally, he often performs with many other players in a variety of settings.

Cellist Gil Selinger was educated at Mannes College of Music (prep), Ithaca College, the Moscow Conservatory (USSR), and has had and continues to have a varitey of private teachers and/or coachings as he strives for perfection in his art. Currently he is working with Pedro De Alcantara learning Alexander Technique as it is applied to cello playing, music making, and musical prosody.


â¢Daniel Carter â Alto, Tenor, Clarinet, Trumpet, Flute

Over the past three decades Daniel has worked with:
Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Billy Bang, William Parker, Roy Campbell, Sabir Mateen, Sonic Youth, Matthew Shipp, Madeski, Martin, & Wood, Vernon Reid, Wilber Morris, Tom Abbs, Denis Charles, Yo La Tengo, Federico Ughi, Raphe Malik, Sam Rivers, Sunny Murray, Hamiet Bluiett, Bob Moses, Jaco Pastorius, David S. Ware, Steve Swell, Gunter Hampel, David Grubbs, Alan Silva, Susie Ibarra, Butch Morris,
D.J. Logic, among many others.


â¢Terence Murren - Contrabass, Electric Bass

Terence Murren attended Vassar College, where he studied Classical Bass with Sue Powell, Jazz with Michael Gold and Composition with Annae Lockwood.

Since moving to New York City in 1997, Murren has continued his studies with bassists Tim Fergeson, Steve Neil and Drew Gress and pianist Myra Melford.

Murren co-leads a group, The Eternal Now with singer Samita Sinha which features Lawrence Clark on tenor saxophone and Tomas Fujiwara on drumset.

Murrenâs performance credits also include The Stephen Gauci Trio, The Billy Bang/Bob Hollman Quartet, The Neil Podgurski Trio, The Jump Festival Orchestra under the direction of Butch Morris, Tom Abbsâ Bass Ensemble, the Bruce Eisenbeil Quartet, Assif Tsaharâs New York Underground Symphony and Mat Kaneâs Trophy Wives. He is also a member of the Cajun alt. country band The Doc


â¢Steve Swell - Trombonist, Composer

Born in Newark, New Jersey, Steve Swell has been living, working and performing in New York City for most of his adult life. In an effort to find his own voice on his instrument and to learn to write and arrange in a style of his own, he has sought out, performed and recorded with many of the finest composers and improvisors in the city. He has recorded and toured with such diverse jazz personalities as mainstreamers Lionel Hampton and Buddy Rich, to so-called outsiders like Anthony Braxton and Jemeel Moondoc. Swell has 18 recordings as a leader or co-leader and is a featured artist on more than seventy other releases.

Swell first came to public attention performing with Makanda Ken McIntyre in the multi-instrumentalist's concert at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1985 of which Herb Boyd of The Amsterdam News wrote, "Swell possesses a foreceful, but mature sound...with a vibrant syncopation..." Later, Swell came to international attention while touring in Europe and recording with alto saxophonist Tim Berne and his group "Caos Totale." There are two studio recordings of this band on the JMT label. During this time Steve also toured and recorded with Joey Baron's "Barondown" which has three releases; one for JMT, one on New World and the most recent for the Avant label.

Even though he is strongly identified with the "downtown scene", Swell has been developing his style in the more so-called "traditional avant-garde" arena. Co-leading such projects as "Space, Time, Swing" with Perry Robinson, being a sideman in William Parker's "Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra" and working with other similar people has kept him on this circuit. Dave McElfresh of Jazz Now wrote in a review of drummer Lou Grassi's CD, PoGressions, "Swell's powerful trombone zooms in and out of the music like a plane diving at a target. Players like himself - and music like this - are to be thanked for the revival of interest in the instrument."

Swell's newest CD, "Slammin' the Infinite" with Sabir Mateen, Matt Heyner and Klaus Kugel was released in November of 2004 on Cadence. CIMP also released a co-lead group with Gebhard Ullman called Desert Songs which has Barry Altschul and Hill Greene. Drimala Records will be releasing a duo recording with Dominic Duval. "Unified Theory Of Sound, This Now!" featuring Jemeel Moondoc, Wilber Morris, Cooper-Moore, Kevin Norton and Matt LaVelle was released on Cadence in 2003. Swell was also a featured soloist with Anthony Braxton in his opera, "Shala Fears For The Poor" performed at John Jay College in New York and recently taught a master class at New England Conservatory in Boston and is an artist/mentor in the NYC public school system.