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If no two snowflakes look the same then no two musicians should sound the same either. I am drawn
to artists who are like orange snowflakes or like snowflakes that don’t melt, or like snowflakes
carved out of soap.
I am composing for and leading the trephining quintet
with
Jean
Derome on sax, Guillaume Dostaler at the
piano, Robert Kraft on the drums. and Ken Dolittle on percussion
Off and on for the past 10 years I have been leading, composing and arranging for the 30 piece Ratchet Orchestra
. I call the group and orchestra, but I hope that it is the antithesis of a classical orchestra.
To me large bands can resemble sports teams or worse, armies.
I want Ratchet to sound more like a party of typing monkeys.
I am a member of Sam Shalabi's land of Kush project which has an album out on Constelation records.
I am in a band with Lori Freedman
and Danielle Roger
called FreC, we should probably record
soon.
I play in another trio called BCH with
Chris
Burns and John
Heward. We have a rather peculiar
record called Presence
out on the label no type.
I also play with John Heward, Chris Burns, Sam Shalabi, Michel Bonneau, Tierry Amar, Gordon Allen, Eric Lewis , and Brian Lypson in the monumental Murray Street Band.
Periodically I am called to play with musicians of international renown such as Joe
McPhee, Steve Lacy, Hassan Hakmoun,
Malcolm
Goldstein, Tristan
Honsinger and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia.
Recently I went to Manhattan to play at Stone (John Zorn’s room) when Ambience
Magnetique was invited. On this label I have records with Jean Derome,
Lori Freedman, Joanne
Hétu , and Robert
M. Lepage.
I am always trying to find some new sound that vibrates in an unusual way. This has led me to
working with musicians who play non-western music.
Since 1990 I have played and recorded with several North African groups: Cheb Dino, Hassan
El Hadi, the Nomads, Timgad and currently with Saïd
Mesnaoui.
For nine long years I have performed and recorded with Bansuri player Catherine
Potter's Dunya Project. In 2008 we did a fantastic tour of India and europe.
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