Clarifying the Natural State, or, Where is the Bubbling Surface?, by StartAgain Ensemble

Clarifying the Natural State, or, Where is the Bubbling Surface?

by StartAgain Ensemble

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10.	Three Poems by Sharon Olds: The Factors 02:54	buy track
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StartAgain

The ensemble is a rhizome. Each member is a musical note, each psyche a musical phrase, twisting, warping, ricocheting together with mutable, multiple gravitational [gestalts] pulls, a polyphonic astroid field of thoughts and sounds. The musical piece is the ensemble, the integration of individual consciousnesses (so public already) momentarily gestating malleable labyrinths, myriad entrances along the wall of the guitar string, innumerable exits sparking off the bow’s momentum. Improvisation is the universal life essence, (Buddha-essence) and the succession of momental opportunities to begin/finish anew(startagain) is an easy, bubbling, epidermis of silence; when the strings of the bodies are tuned and in synchronic orbit together, decisions and sounds are fearlessly intoned and always fall where they should, which is where they will.

These improvisations were recorded on November 2-4, 2013 at "The Loom" in Bushwick

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released July 21, 2015

One these days the StartAgain Ensemble was:

John Welsh - electric guitar and nylon-string acoustic guitar
Jon Lipscomb - electric guitar and twelve-string acoustic guitar
Brandon Lopez - double bass
Nicholas Jozwiak - cello and double bass
Michael Sachs - clarinet (5, 8, 10-12, 16, 17, 22)
Max Jaffe - percussion (1, 7, 13, 18, 20, 23)

Recorded by the ensemble, neither mixed nor mastered.

Album cover: "AZ Sky (for Nagarjuna)" by JJ James

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