Showcasing Buffalo-based percussionist Bob Fullex and Jason Bauers' innovative mastery as Crossfire Duo in an album that features Jacob Gotlib's "Portrait Sequence", performed without striking objects, Matt Sargent's "Small Stones" played entirely on metallophones, Richard Richard Festinger's high-speed "Crossfire", and Christian Wolff's "Flutist (and) Percussionist" as an intricate rhythmic dialogue.
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UPC: 197189327124
Label: Infrasonic Press
Catalog ID: IFSP-07
Squidco Product Code: 35471
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2023
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, New York, in May, 2013,by Chris Jacobs.
"Crossfire Duo consisted of percussionists Bob Fullex and Jason Bauers. The two drummers met as teenagers in the wintry barracks of Buffalo, NY, and took their name from one of the first pieces they tackled, Richard Festinger's Gordian, stamina-testing, "Crossfire", which they spent a year perfecting.
Always a collaborative project, Crossfire built their distinctive repertoire from the ground up, commissioning new works from Rust Belt-based composers with whom they worked very closely, allowing these artists to help shape the duo into what it became (their only stipulation being that each piece's percussion battery be able to wedge into a small sedan for touring). Through intense basement sessions marked by trial, error, and experimentation, Crossfire and their collaborators cultivated an eccentric arsenal of pieces marked by a variety of newly-developed and highly-nuanced techniques, including some works-like Jacob Gotlib's Portrait Sequence (Blanching Out)-that didn't even involve striking a single object.
Crossfire hung up their sticks in 2013, but not before they executed an impressive recording of some of the key pieces of their rep. Recently unearthed, their album Vellum features two works by the duo's composer-collaborators: Gotlib's Portrait Sequence and Matt Sargent's Small Stones, the latter played entirely on diaphanous, high-frequency metallophones. The set open's with Crossfire's namesake composition, demonstrating the duo's virtuosic force with Festinger's unpredictable high-speed staccato constructions.
The record concludes with Christian Wolff's Flustist (and) Percussionist, realized here without the titular wind player, allowing the listener to focus on the intricate rhythmic dialogue between two musicians at the height of their abilities. A decade after its recording, Vellum is finally being released in June of 2023."-Infrasonic Press
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Bob Fullex "Bob Fullex is a Buffalo-based percussionist who specializes in 21st century chamber music. Bob received his MM in performance from the University at Buffalo where he studied under Tom Kolor. Bob has attended summer programs including the Bang on a Can summer institute in 2011 and SO Percussion's inaugural ever summer institution in 2009. He is a recipient of the University at Buffalo's Morris Grant, which recognizes and funds individuals for outstanding performance. In 2006 he was invited to play in South Korea with the percussion group Rai-Jin. He has played in master classes for Daniel Druckman and the Percussions de Strasbourg. He is a member of the Crossfire Percussion Duo along with Jason Bauers, who have commissioned new works for percussion by Megan Grace Beugger & Jacob Gotlib. He currently resides in Buffalo where he plays in Ensemble Triple Dot, as well as the rock band Mallwalkers." ^ Hide Bio for Bob Fullex • Show Bio for Jason Bauers "Jason Bauers is a drummer and percussionist based out of Brooklyn, NY. Bauers began to tour extensively with tech-metal band Psyopus in 2007, and subsequently played on the band's 2009 release "Odd Senses". During this time Bauers earned a B.M. and M.M. in Music Performance, Percussion from SUNY University at Buffalo, where he began his exploration of modern classical music and co-founded Crossfire Percussion Duo. He has toured and recorded as a member of Unwelcome Guests, Mallwalkers, and Pick Your Side. Bauers is currently fusing together the worlds of modern chamber and aggressive amplified music as the drummer of avant-metal weirdos Behold the Arctopus." ^ Hide Bio for Jason Bauers
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Track Listing:
1. Richard Festinger - Crossfire: Allegro molto 04:54
2. Richard Festinger - Crossfire: Andante 04:14
3. Richard Festinger - Crossfire: Finale 05:13
4. Jacob Gotlib - Portrait Sequence (Blanching Out) 08:53
5. Matt Sargent - Small Stones 09:31
6. Christian Wolff - Flutist (and) Percussionist: 1 02:18
7. Christian Wolff - Flutist (and) Percussionist: 2 01:26
8. Christian Wolff - Flutist (and) Percussionist: 3 01:10
9. Christian Wolff - Flutist (and) Percussionist: 4 01:44
10. Christian Wolff - Flutist (and) Percussionist: 5 04:58
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