Bill Hallsonora
It’s great. You have something to do? You just want to lean back and let your mind go? Either way this works. Press play.
Favorite track: Techno Top: Solar Live Vol 4, 9.27.19.
Lars Gotrich
Chris always puts together a killer live band to achieve maximum choogle. Free-jazz sax man Daniel Carter (!) jumps on this 25-minute boogie.
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Introducing Volume 4 in Chris Forsyth's ongoing Solar Live series of high quality live releases. To be released May 1, 2020 on Bandcamp's second "no fee" day, proceeds from this special download-only release will go directly to the musicians to help offset lost touring & gig income as a result of the Covid-19 crisis.
This 26-minute take of the improvisational vehicle "Techno Top" (from Forsyth's 2019 "All Time Present" album) features a cohort of longtime Forsyth collaborators, multi-tracked live by house engineer Onur Gül at Nublu in New York City, September 27, 2019, on the final date of Forsyth's month-long residency at the club and mixed by Jeff Zeigler at Uniform Recording in Philly. .
The all star rhythm section of Peter Kerlin (Sunwatchers) and Ryan Jewell (Ryley Walker, Mosses) is augmented by Brent Cordero on swirling combo organ and the front line of Forsyth and Tom Malach (Garcia Peoples) on electric guitars and NYC free jazz legend Daneil Carter (Other Dimensions in Music, Test) on horns.
In keeping with Forsyth's exploratory ethos, the group takes the song's framework - just a groove and a few melodic sign posts, really - and unspools a complete re-imagination, a dynamic, pulsating, relentlessly patient rhythm and timbre workout suggesting Don Cherry sitting in on a Liquid Liquid + Young Marble Giants jam session in a German disco.
credits
released May 1, 2020
Daniel Carter: trumpet, saxophone
Brent Cordero: organ
Chris Forsyth: guitar
Ryan Jewell: drums
Peter Kerlin: bass
Tom Malach: guitar
Recorded 9.27.19 by Onur Gül at Nublu, NYC
Mixed by Jeff Zeigler at Uniform Recording, Philly
Produced by Brucie Millions
Artwork/Design by D. Norsen
Photos by Constance Mensh, Kevin Monty, and Eric Pier-Hocking
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