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Zai Circle CD release Concert
Water Tiger 10 Conversations on Three Poems
Water Tiger started as an idea to explore more of a compositional form with 3 different trios. The poems deal with themes of transition, compromise, goals and aspirations, reservations, and in general the things we must balance in life. Each trio entered into a deep musical dialogue on each poem. Compositionally, there is a blend, (and a blurred line), of what is composed and what is improvised. The recording was done live with no overdubs at London Bridge Studios in Seattle.
The Trios:
Trio #1 finds me on basses, 12 string guitar, loops, and percussion, with the two amazing voices of Alicia Jones and Jean Mann. Coming from very different backgrounds the voices travel from Opera to Pop to Latin to pure sonic expression. We go from spine chillingly beautiful sounds, to rich and luscious tonal textures, to a darker more ominous presence in the course of a measure or two. This trio is full of surprises!
Trio #2 is bass, tenor saxophone, and drums. Lots of space emerges without the harmonic or chordal layer and the compositions embrace this space. Greg Sinibaldi takes on the tenor and Steven Banks on drums and we all push rhythm and time throughout. Water Tiger 10 adds guitar loops and an electronic wind instrument called a EWI that changes the spacial context and keeps the sound palettes sizzling!
Trio #3 enlisted the wonderful Harpist and Vocalist; Abel Rocha and multi instrumentalist Terry Wergeland. Terry played accordion, flugelhorn and piano and I was on fretless and 6 string basses, and cymbals. The composition Trade is rich in its grooves and complex in its form, and the piece The Time is Now addresses the idea of time both in motion and meter overlaid into a complex pulse of clocks and sonic textures that can be at once haunting and melancholy, while sending us into a perpetual forward motion.
The Title:
2010 is the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese calendar. I was born in the year of the Tiger. Within each Chinese animal sign there are five different personalities of each animal-Water, Fire, Metal, Earth, and Wood depending on the year in which you were born. I am a Water Tiger. For Tigers, 2010 is a year of taking chances, aspirations and reaching for high goals. It is a year with many possibilities and surprises and is touted as a year to step out into a new beginning. So far this year has been just that and more-hence: Water Tiger 10!
Join us for our live conversation on June 24th 2010 at the Good Shepard Chapel in Seattle.
Kelan
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LocationGood Shepard Chapel
4649 Sunnyside ave N (4th floor)
Seattle, WA 98103
United States
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