Squidco: Turtle Boat (Chebolu / Burgoyne / DiPiero): Fear is Heavy, I've Got Plans ...

Turtle Boat (Chebolu / Burgoyne / DiPiero)

Fear is Heavy, I've Got Plans ...

(Amalgam

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Personnel:

Abhilasha Chebolu-guitar

Alex Burgoyne-saxophone

Dan DiPiero-drums

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UPC: 755491299753

Label: Amalgam
Catalog ID: AMA052
Squidco Product Code: 37110

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded at Moonlight Audio, in Columbus, Ohio, on June 11th, 2023, and July 2nd, 2023, by Joe Amadio.

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"Fear is Heavy, I've Got Plans ... is the debut recording by Turtle Boat, a free-jazz outfit led by Abhilasha Chebolu (Null Copula, Princsex, Gault, Ryan Jewell Quintet) featuring her compositions with additional contributions from saxophonist Alex Burgoyne (Small Songs, Alex Burgoyne Quartet, Gault, Liver Quiver, Ryan Jewell Quintet). Joined by Dan DiPiero (Small Songs, Alex Burgoyne Quartet, Common Things), the trio first assembled in 2015 after a decade of playing together in various groups and idioms. Though diverse in experience, the ensemble finds common ground through their shared investment in exploring the more introspective side of free playing. In addition to their capacious listening practice (informed equally by Arvo Part, Kazumoto Endo, Thingy, and YMCK as much as Ornette Coleman and Paul Motian), Turtle Boat pursues a generous improvisatory dynamic concerned with playing not what is possible, but what is necessary."-Amalgam

Track Listing:

1. My Brain is Breaking, My Brain is Broking 5:32

2. Whirl 2:37

3. Little Bird 5:23

4. Purging #6 (or I Learned a Lot in a Short Time) 7:15

5. Yednock 6:38

6. Less Than 4:11

7. It's The Ending Of It 5:06

8. When You Wish Upon A Star 1:45

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