Jeff Crandall: Guitars, bass, environmental sounds, vocals
Influences
Michael Brook, Daniel Lanois, This Mortal Coil, Kronos Quartet, William Blake, Cocteau Twins, Robin Guthrie, Hal Wilner, Dead Can Dance, John Cage, Bauhaus, Will Ackerman, Love and Rockets, Peter Murphy, Thelonious Monk, Erik Friedlander, Charles Mingus, Philip Glass, 4AD, The Durutti Column, Brian Eno, Don Shirley, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, Ennio Morricone, Arvo Part, Krzysztof Penderecki, Lynn Harrell
Sounds Like
This Mortal Coil, Dead Can Dance, Michael Brook, The Durutti Column, Philip Glass, Brian Eno
Dissonant Creatures is the second release from cellist and composer Aaron
Kerr. For the Dissonant Creatures project, Aaron teamed up with the
experimental Americana band Swallows to arrange and produce the
album.
Dissonant Creatures began as a series of minimalist compositions
featuring cello and piano. Swallows’ Tyson Allison and Jeff Crandall
added ambient soundscapes to Aaron’s original tracks using analog
keyboards, guitars, homemade effects and loops, environmental sounds,
percussion and vocals. The finished pieces balance musicality and
rhythmic pulse with ambience and space.
The overall feel of Dissonant Creatures is sensual and meditative, and the
pieces are colored with dark tones and rich textures. Stylistically, the
compositions are cinematic in nature and incorporate modal folk, gothic
and avant-garde classical themes.
Dissonant Creatures was recorded at Covert Transmissions in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and is being released on Emperor Penguin Records.
Aaron Kerr released his debut solo cello CD Arco 71 in 2006 and was
awarded a 2006 McKnight Foundation Fellowship for the compositions
on the album. Aaron’s work has been featured in several theater
productions, including Passage by Edward Bok Lee, Vincent, a dance
production by Decadance, and We, an adaptation of the novel by
Yevgeny Zamyatin. In 1999, The American Composer’s Forum awarded
Aaron with a New Music Series grant.
Aaron has lent his compositional and performance skills to several bands
and recording artists over the years, including Anahada Nada, The
Semiconductor Orchestra, Mellow Drunk, The Sleeper Pins, JazZen,
Michael Campbell, Thinland, Leigh Gregory, The Urban Hillbilly
Quartet and Swallows.
Swallows are an eclectic Americana band hailing from Minnesota. The
quartet is known for their blend of classic blues, rock, alt. country and
folk. Swallows’ 2008 release Songs for Strippers (and other professions) was
recently lauded as one of the top albums of 2008 by Consequence of Sound
magazine.
Thanks. Congratulations on the excellent work. GREAT sounds
and atmospheres produced here!!! I hope you enjoy my noise music.
Maintain contact. My friendship and respect always.
Thanks. Viva the underground! Viva the NOISE! Viva aaron kerrs dissonant!
Congratulations on the excellent work, GREAT sounds and atmospheres produced here.
I hope you enjoy my noise music too. Maintain contact. Cheers!
My friendship and max respect always!
Thank You for the connection and Your kind comment - and great to discover Your exquisit and delicate sonic univers.
I am (and always was) very fond of cello music, and especially of the combination cello with abmient/electronica.
Do You happen to now the collaborations of (classic) Cellist Wofgang Tiepold and electronic pioneer Klaus Schulze? The album "Audentity" is a great example (one of my all time favorites, actually...)
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