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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Cutting Board - New ESP-Disk CD Release now available!
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:03:07 -0400 (EDT)
Available now for pre-order - Cutting Board - New ESP-Disk CD Release! PLEASE SHARE! We have a new release, already available for pre-Order! Cutting Board contains 13 pieces, including three solos and ten tracks with saxophone by Chris Diasparra and/or Ed Schneider. I'm really happy with this - the music is intense, often raw, amazing energy, and really in its very own space. Please consider ordering and supporting this music; please share this announcement! http://www.alansondheim.org/CBcover.jpg http://espdisk.com/official/catalog/5004.html http://www.alansondheim.org/ESP5004.pdf ESP 5004 Artist/Title: Alan Sondheim with Christopher Diasparra & Edward Schneider: Cutting Board Catalog #: ESP5004 UPC: 825481500425 Release date: October 29, 2014 advailable for pre-order now! Genre: "Experimental" List Price: $12.99 Contact: steve@espdisk.com Track Listing: 1. Xenon 5:38 2. Argon 7:35 3. Neon 3:18 4. Krypton 2:21 5. Helium 6:44 6. Carbon 5:15 7. Silicon 5:37 8. Oxygen 5:36 9. Nitrogen 4:18 10. Germanium 4:16 11. Platinum 5:02 12. Iridium 9:53 13. Cobalt 4:18 Total 1:09:51 The release party for this album will take place on November 12 at JACK (www.jackny.org), 505 12 Waverly Ave. between Fulton and Atlantic in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. C or G train to Clinton-Washington. Personnel: Alan Sondheim, ghichak, cura, chromatic harmonica, Chinese mouth harp, saz, tro so, electric saz, sarangi, sung lisu, ukulele, qin, electric guitar, flute Christopher Diasparra, tenor and baritone saxophones; Edward Schneider, alto saxophone Bio: Alan Sondheim (www.alansondheim.org) was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; he lives with his partner, Azure Carter in Providence, RI. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Brown University. A new-media artist, writer, and theorist, he has exhibited, performed and lectured widely. His band Ritual All 70, whose debut The Songs (Riverboat, 1967) was reissued by the Fire Museum label, was included on the notorious Nurse with Wound list of outsider/avant-garde influences. Overview (excerpted from the liner notes): Sondheim is the first artist from ESP-Disk's 1964-75 heyday to return, since it was revived in 2005, to issue an album of new material on the fabled label. Sondheim joined the roster with a 1967 session, Ritual-All-7-70, then followed up with 1968's T'Other Little Tune. Sondheim got his musical start as a guitarist, but soon moved into a much more original sound utilizing a vast array of instruments from around the world. Cutting Board, his eighth album, is his first instrumental group album; his other albums have always either been solo (and there are two solo tracks on Cutting Board as well) or featured female vocalists. Though he's a pure improviser, Sondheim rightly insists that he doesn't play jazz; even playing with two saxophonists, he's outside that tradition's spectrum. The eclecticism of the sounds he's working with sonically can tenuously seem to connect him to world music, but he doesn't play the instruments in traditional ways. And on rare occasions you can hear the blues lurking, but it's not likely that Living Blues will be putting him on the cover. Maybe if somebody starts a music magazine (or website) called Beyond Category, then Sondheim can be a cover subject. Press Quotes: Of Ritual-All-7-70: "...if there is a concept here, its extremely simple: you never heard such sounds in your life." Clifford Allen, Bagatellen Of Avatar Woman: "...be prepared to listen to universes growing and collapsing within their sound worlds." disasteramnesiac.blogspot.ca Please consider ordering Avatar Woman as well, from Public Eyesore records (also produced 2014) with Azure Carter! Please see http://www.publiceyesore.com/catalog.php?pg=3&pit=123 Thank you!