Eric Vogler on the guitar and Lorin Benedict on the voice-a-phone.
Influences
Tyshawn Sorey, Alfred Cortot, Good For Cows, Leopold Godowsky, Craig Taborn, Gust Burns, Art Tatum, Vijay Iyer, Don Byas, Steve Coleman, Gary Thomas, Matt Otto, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Bird, Carla Kihlstedt, Ellington, Conlan Nancarrow, Elliot Carter, Robert Schumann, Gabriel Faure, Charlie Shavers, and Marice Ravel... not that we sound like any of them; we just wish we did.
Sounds Like
Three of the tracks featured here were recorded live at various shows of ours in 2008 (Schusame, Indiana, Messy Ann). The other two were recorded by us in Lorin's kitchen (no, that's not a performance space; it's really just a kitchen) on 11/20/08. Schusame is a tune written by us, recorded at Blue 6 in SF. Indiana is the standard tune, recorded at Temple Israel in West Lafayette, Indiana (we were endeavoring to appease the locals). More of Same is a piece graciously written for us by our KLUGIGHORN-dyeaauh (equal to one Julie Barwick); we had a live version of this up before, but we felt that there were too many inaccuracies, which is what prompted the "recording session". This one did turn out a little bit better. Rodinia is a piece written by Eric Vogler and drummer Sam Ospovat. We used to play this piece in a band of ours called BlenderHead. Messy Ann is an extended suite of ours containing freely improvised material together with premeditated things, some of which may be familiar. The whole thing starts out with us trading solos. It was also recorded at that Blue 6 show. Oh, and don't be alarmed by the sounding of sirens in the background. So anyway, that's what we sound like.
Bleeding Vector is a duo of SF Bay area improvisors who play around with various rhythmic and harmonic structures as the underpinnings for their improvisations. Most of these structures are either tunes from the jazz idiom, or mutations of these tunes. Well, but then they also try to do more extended things and such.
For info about the tracks above, see the "Sounds Like" section on the left.
