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Spiny Forests

by Ed Bear and Geof Lipman

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Album Notes:
Improvised music from five sessions recorded underground in Brooklyn, from July 27 to Sept 7, 2021.

Building sound in a kind of polymorphic musical cubism, Bear and Lipman draw from traditions of free jazz, 70s era classical avant-garde, and extraterrestrial blues.

The music is taut and rhythmic, revealing intense, expressive gestures over propulsive stochasto-rhythmic forward motion. The improvisations outline larger scale conceptual structures that seem, in retrospect, pre-cognated.

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released December 13, 2021

Personnel:
Ed Bear - Electroacoustic Saxophone
Extends the reach of the saxophone outwards to control the surrounding environment. A complex signal path with mics inside and outside the horn allows him to manipulate and interact with room acoustics, using the sax as a tuned column of air. The sound results are both organic and other-worldly.
Influences: Ecstatic and Wingless - “A suitable teacher for young roller canaries” (Canary Records), All the Coltranes, Keiji Haino, Mats Gustafsson, Borbetomagus.
Ex-Talibam, Ex-TwistyCat


Geof Lipman - Spanish Guitar
Eschews electronic effects, driving musical discovery via traditional and extended techniques. Stylistically unusual and conceptually formalistic, he seeks the middle ground between stasis and chaos -- that point of maximum surprise.
Influences: early Leo Brouwer, Cecil Taylor, Andre Jolivet, Buddy Guy.
Active in the free jazz and avant-garde scenes of Boston in the 80s, and San Francisco in the 90s.


All music composed by Ed Bear and Geof Lipman, Copyright 2021

Mastered by Dave Zuchowski

Thanks to Andrea, Maria, Ken, David Watson

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