Wildly imaginative duo of of non-conventional musics featuring the inventive improvised guitar work of Sabrina Siegel and Charles Coxon

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JAZZ: Weird Jazz, ROCK: Noise



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SIECOX, wildly creative duo of non-conventional improvised musics featuring the inventive, visceral, and free guitar work of Sabrina Siegel (performance and fine artist) and Charles Coxon, blazes a unique path among but outside the genres of jazz, noise, rock, folk, and classical. The two began their collaboration in 2004 out of frustration with the limitations of their backgrounds in conventional musics (Sabrinaâs in classical voice and flute and Charlesâ in rock) as well as a longing for a more direct and free form of communication. These recordings from the âFriendly Houseâ (an old cement and cinder block Quaker meeting house) document with one microphone the physical space and the relationship(s) lived/improvised therein. Their multi-tonal, multi-dimensional music emerges through their energetic/corporeal relationship to their instruments and each other -- manifesting complex energetic and musical tensions (sometimes ecstatic) within the simple format of spontaneous no-effect acoustic and electric guitar(and occasionally drums, vibes, kitchen implements and other household items) improvisation. The result is direct, raw, visceral expression, formed primarily of a "primal organic" or "energetic/biological" playing, as if by beast, animal, insect, bird, or the earth (or âheavenâ) itself. Their vast sonic tapestry, created through simple instrumentation, is due largely to Sabrinaâs practice of playing the electric guitar with rocks (a practice taken up for a greater sonic palette, simultaneous and complex layerings of sound, the creation of a ânaturalâ physical structuring element [that between the rocks, hands, body, and strings and all the possible combinations of size, shape, number, placement, pressure, motion, rhythm, etc.] as well as itâs not being completely controllable [thereby allowing a great potential for working with chance/âaccident,â as well as requiring a heightened bodily awareness and deeper listening in the moment, as her playing is not based on known musical structures and relationships]. Charles weaves and coincides, on a childâs or other acoustic guitar, percussion, or electric guitar, closely, with a raw, true, sparse expression that merges often seamlessly with Sabrinaâs, creating the unique SIECOX sound.
While most of the works are created as above, SIECOX does experiment as well with recordings from their life, such as the voices and sounds of his children and nearby train, to add other, physical senses of space, sounds, and layers/levels of meanings to works such as âPlay with Me/the Universe Doesnât Stopâ and âLovers Passing Trains in Spring Flowers,â evoking further experiential complexity through language and association. Sabrina does sing as well, and laughs occasionally.
âFriendly House Favoritesâ is a compilation of favorite works from their four CDs âYoungerâ, âPang-Dhen (tibetan marriage skirt)â, âTeetering on Tiptoeâ, and âSpainâ, with a range of expression âfrom the most feeble, sweet, and small of forms to the giant, hard, and horribleâ!