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Artist:
VANDERMARK, KEN
Title:
Furniture Music
Label:
OKKA DISK
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
OKKA 046CD
Tenor sax, baritone sax, clarinet, bass clarinet. Works inspired by: Evan Parker, Peter Brötzmann, Michael Snow, Lennie Tristano, Jackson Pollack, Piet Mondrian and Erik Satie, Mark Rothko, Mississippi Fred MacDowell, Samuel Beckett and Morton Feldman, Joe McPhee, John Cage, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Jaap Blonk. "This album has been under personal consideration for quite some time, several years in fact. Throughout the time I have worked as an improvising musician I have been fortunate enough to work in a wide variety of settings -- from duos to large ensembles, groups that work with predesignated material or bands that are free from this, ad hoc settings as well as long term collaborations -- but the issue of creating what I could consider as 'my own' solo improvised music remained elusive despite my many efforts to deal with it. To me, it started to seem as if performing and recording solo music was a necessary aspect of creative expression."
Artist:
VANDERMARK, KEN
Title:
Collected Fiction
Label:
OKKA DISK
Format:
2CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
OKKA 075CD
"A two disk studio recording of duos by Ken Vandermark and four of the world's best bass players: Nate McBride, Kent Kessler, Ingebrigt Hĺker Flaten, and Wilbert De Joode. These sessions where recorded in Chicago on February 4 and 5, 2008."
Artist:
VANDERMARK, KEN
Title:
Two Days in December
Label:
WOBBLY RAIL
Format:
2CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
WOB 012CD
Duets with Raymond Strid, Sten Sandell, David Stackenas, Kjell Nordeson. "I had been thinking of recording a series of improvised duos with these four players for a couple of years, but it took some time to shape the way to go about it. The main thing was to show some of the improvisational range that each of them have and I thought that the best way to do this was to work with shorter durations, pieces from five to ten minutes in length, over two CDs so each duo could be represented by at least a half an hour of music . With these duos I think that we tried to be as free from musical categories and boundaries as we could, playing what the music suggested not what our preconceptions dictated. I feel that in many cases we succeeded. There are elements of styles defined as Free Jazz, Free Improvisation, New Music, Blues, Jazz, etc., but there are many times that I think we found something that is personal and does not fit into the categories that are set by 20th century expectations. It's a new time and we need to find music that belongs to our own experiences." -- Ken Vandermark
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