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Includes unlimited streaming of PASSAGES - A ROAD RECORD WOODSTOCK - NEW YORK - CHICAGO - LOS ANGELES
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Didier Petit: cello, voice
Alexandre Pierrepont: poetic serial, voice
In Woodstock:
Marilyn Crispell: piano
In New York:
Andrea Parkins: electornic accordion & effects, laptop electronics, amplified objects
Gerald Cleaver: drums, percussion
Matt Bauder: tenor saxophone
Joe Morris: guitar
In Chicago:
Jim Baker: analog synthesizer
Nicole Mitchell: flute
Hal Rammel: amplified pallet
Hamid Drake: tar
Michael Zerang: darabukka
In Los Angeles:
François Houle: clarinet
Michael Dessen: trombone
Larry Ochs: tenor saxophone
Kamau Daáood: voice
credits
released October 24, 2012
recording:
in Woodstock: Chris Andersen, Nevessa Production, May 17th 2011
in New York: Leon Dorsey, Leon Lee Dorsey Studio, May 22nd 2011
in Chicago: Andrew Hernandez, Soma Studio, May 31st & June 1st 2011
in Los Angeles: Wayne Peet, Killzone Music-Newzone, June 6th 2011
Editing: Didier Petit
Mastering: Jean-Pierre Bouquet, L’autre Studio, Vaires-sur-Marne, France
Liner notes: Yves Citton
Photos: RogueArt, Rob Mazurek, APDP
Cover design: Max Schoendorff
Cover realization: David Bourguignon
Executive producer: Michel Dorbon & Basta SARL
Lawrence Butch Morris developed the concept of “conduction” to account for a mode of Instant Composition based on the creative freedom of the players stimulated by the gestures of a central conductor. AP/DP, with this cd, invent the practice of musical transduction. Just like the French language is not “translated” but transducted into Kamau Daáood’s unique prosody, DP’s cello does not “translate” the playing of a thumb piano, an oud or a kora: all of these instruments, all of their phrasings electrify his playing from the inside, they are transducted into the cello. Similarly, DP’s vocal cords do not “translate” what his fingers perform on the strings: both are electrified by a common current, alternating and direct. The astonishing fluidity of this complex meshwork of influences qualifies AP/DP as “Super-transductors”: through this cd, one hears not only a whole family of giant cello players (Abdul Wadud, Robert Een, Tom Cora, Ernst Reijseger, Peggy Lee, Hank Roberts), but also a long history of lyrical surrealism (from Lautréamont to Henri Michaux), and the widest range of traditions in ethnomusicology (from Africa to the Middle East, through classical Europe and Amerindian singing)…
…Be prepared to be transducted, transformed and elated. Yves Citton
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A liquid performance from the free jazz trio, ignoring any hierarchy between wild blowing and emotionally wrenching balladry. Bandcamp Album of the Day Mar 21, 2022