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The Squid's Ear Magazine
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Memphis Metaphysics (Moses / Westgaard / Oswald / Edmaiston / Cheli)

Memphis Metaphysics

Memphis Metaphysics (Moses / Westgaard / Oswald / Edmaiston / Cheli): Memphis Metaphysics (Sonic Transmissions Records)

"Memphis Metaphysics is a bold free jazz project uniting Swiss-Filipina pianist Margaux Oswald, Norwegian guitarist Hein Westgaard, legendary drummer Ra Kalam Bob Moses, percussionist Kevin Cheli, and Memphis saxophone master Art Edmais...
 

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Ra Kalam Bob Moses-drums

Hein Westgaard-electric guitar

Margaux Oswald-piano

Art Edmaiston-tenor saxophone

Kevin Cheli-percussion

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UPC: 1993509467766

Label: Sonic Transmissions Records
Catalog ID: STRCD51
Squidco Product Code: 36832

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: Norway
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, on December 1st, 2023, by Kevin Cheli. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
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"Hein Westgaard is a Norwegian guitarist, improviser and composer, based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Hein Westgaard Trio is a guitar-bass-and-drums trio that plays exploratory, genre-curious music, freely mixing elaborate compositions with open improvisations."

-Hein Westgaard Bandcamp (https://heinwestgaardtrio.bandcamp.com/)
1/23/2026

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"Margaux Oswald is a pianist of French-Filipina origin, born in Geneva, and currently based in Copenhagen. She has played the piano since the age of 5, and is now committed to the art of free improvisation. She has recorded with Swedish guitarist Niklas Fite (Fire! Orchestra), in a duo with Danish trumpeter Kasper Tranberg, and in a trio with Argentine saxophonist Albert Cirera & bassist Johannes Nästesjö."

-Monoopiano, Disocgs (https://www.monopiano.com/program)
1/23/2026

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"Kevin Cheli is an improvising percussionist and electronic musician currently based in St. Louis, MO. He has performed and recorded improvised music across the United States in a wide variety of ensembles with artists such as Damon Smith, Jessica Ackerley, Gahlord Dewald, Sandy Ewen, Scott Looney, Seth Andrew Davis, Jeff Kaiser, Bob Bucko Jr., Alexander Adams, Reid Karris, Tom Law, Álvaro Domene, Lucas Brode, Michael Eaton, Al Margolis, Kyle Quass, Federico Musso, Errant Space, Adam Gabbert, and Luc Mosley. Since 2018 he has contributed sounds, engineering, and artwork to more than a dozen releases of improvised and experimental music.

Kevin holds a BM from Webster University and an MA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City."

-Kevin Cheli Website (https://www.kevincheli.com/)
1/23/2026

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