Leap of Faith - Crawling into Consciousness (final audio)

Leap of Faith - Crawling Into Consciousness
Evil Clown 9393
LIVESTREAMED to TH-cam
Evil Clown Headquarters, Waltham MA 14 September 2024
1) Crawling Into Consciousness - 1:10:13
2) Contemplating Hypothetical Scenarios - 5:20
PEK - clarinet, contralto & contrabass clarinets, alto & tenor saxophones, glissophone, piccolo oboe, bass tromboon, alto flute, 5 hole Russian wood flute, melodica, sheng, khaean, theremin with moogerfooger, ms-20, syntrx, moog subsequent, novation peak, Linnstrument controllers, lfo violin, [d]ronin, 17 string bass, noise tower, brontosaurus & tank bells, Tibetan bowls & bells, wood & temple blocks, log drums, cow bells, gongs, plate gong, orchestral chimes, chimes, seed pod rattles. chime rod box, Englephone, crotales, glockenspiel, clown horn, rubber chickens
Glynis Lomon - cello, aquasonic, voice
Bob Moores - trumpet, piccolo trumpet, flugelhorn, lfo percolator, nord stage 3, moog subsequent, novation peak, Linnstrument controllers, log drums, wood & temple blocks, cow bells, orchestral castanets, brontosaurus bell, orchestral chimes, Englephone, danmo, rubber chickens, psychic mumbling
John Fugarino - trumpet, flugelhorn, slide trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone, nord stage 3, prophet, log drums, wood & temple blocks, brontosaurus & tank bells, cow bells, bells, spring & chime rod boxes, Tibetan bells, almglocken, balafon, xylophone, Englephone, seed pod rattles, shakers, rubber chickens
Jiaxin Wan - guzheng, seed pod rattle, crotales, glockenspiel, wood & temple blocks, log drums, seed pod rattle, brontosaurus & tank bells, chimes, rubber chickens
Scott Samenfeld - BSX upright electric bass, mollenhauer electric alto recorder w/FX, Mexican clay flute
Jared Seabrook - drums, gongs, spring & chime rod boxes, Tibetan bells, bells, noise tower, brontosaurus & tank bells, log drums, wood & temple blocks, tiny cymbals, rubber chicken
Joel Simches - Live to 2-track recording, real-time signal processing
Paul Brennan - Camera
Raffi - video mix
----Liner Notes by PEK
Evil Clown records roughly 3 albums a month - mostly TH-cam Livestreams like this set, but also some live performances. Some players are hardcore regulars and appear in multiple ensembles with great frequency. I generally consider a player to be a hardcore regular if they are on at least 10 sessions per year. A second group of regulars is made up of players who have participated for years, but with fewer performances per year. Guests are players who either are brand new or who do at most 2 or 3 sessions per year.
Many sets are made up of a combination of regulars and guests, although a fair number are regulars only. The Leap of Faith septet for Crawling Into Consciousness is made up of 4 hardcore regulars (PEK, Glynis, Bob & John), and 3 ordinary regulars: Scott has been on 15 performances in the last couple of years and is currently our most frequent bass player with appearances with Leap of Faith, Turbulence and Simulacrum, Jiaxin has been on 6 performances in the last couple of years with Leap of Faith and Expanse (She will be moving back to China at the end of the year and I think she will do 5 or 6 more sets with us before then), and Jared has appeared on 6 performances in the last couple of years by Leap of Faith, Turbulence and Neurodivergent.
So, this is a seasoned Leap of Faith Septet well familiar with the broad-palette improvisation technique we use at Evil Clown and which the Evil Clown Headquarters studio is set up for. I especially look forward to playing with Jiaxin who plays the Chinese zither instrument called guzheng that adds a texture to the improvisations not available from any other members of the roster.
Evil Clown Ensembles specialize in large format improvisation. Most free improvisation ensembles are trios or perhaps quartets with relatively fixed instrumentation. Most of our sets are sextet or larger with a lot of auxiliary instruments available to the musicians to broaden the palette in addition to the instruments specially doubled by each player. When the ensemble is comprised of mostly regulars who have embraced the broad palette concept and make frequent instrument changes, the natural result is a continuous flow of movements through very different sonorities over the long duration of the work.
I really like this set, and I bet you will too…
PEK 9/15/2024