Since 2015 Chicago's Experimental Sound Studio has hosted a series of concert followed by a discussion with the artist, with funding for the series assisted by Corbett vs. Dempsey; this CD collects recordings from the last year, including Susan Alcorn, Gerry Hemingway, Greg Kelley, Kris Davis, Wayne Horvitz, Ingrid Laubrock, LaDonna Smith, Sandy Ewen, Douglas Ewart, &c &c.
Format: 2CDs Condition: New Released: 2019 Country: USA Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold 3 Panels Recorded live at Experiential Sound Studio, in Chicago, Illinois, in 2018, by Alex Inglizian and Ralph loza.
1. July 30, 2018 - Adios Nonino By Astor Piazzolla 6:19
2. October 15, 2018 - Improvisation 7:30
3. October 22, 2018 - Calling You 8:56
4. August 27, 2018 - Improvisation 9:09
5. August 20, 2018 - Improvisation 10:12
6. April 9, 2019 - Improvisation 6:06
7. October 8, 2018 - Improvisation 10:35
CD2
1. April 20, 2018 - The Heebie-Jeebies by Steve Lacy 9:47
2. May 28, 2018 - Improvisation 7:52
3. March 19, 2018 - Improvisation/Moon Mouth By Michael Attias 11:11
4. June 4, 2018 - Improvisation 8:27
5. March 12, 2018 - Improvisation 11:01
6. October 1, 2018 - Improvisation 9:53
7. October8, 2018 - Improvisation 4:20
8. September 17, 2018 - Improvisation 9:37
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descriptions, reviews, &c.
"Since 2015, Chicago's Experimental Sound Studio has been the host of Option, a series of intimate concerts of improvised music. Featuring an uncommonly wide range of players representing virtually all haunts of free music, the series has fostered not only an important exchange of ideas in musical form, but it has also promoted literal conversation about the music, usually substituting a dialogue with the musician or musicians for the requisite second set.
In 2018, the series was funded by a consortium of major international art galleries, each of whom underwrote a month of events. As is always the case at ESS, the music was recorded, and in the end an astonishing archive of tapes was produced, from which 15 tracks were selected and programmed onto two CDs for Option 1, the first compilation of the series. The artists featured on the program are Susan Alcorn (lap steel guitarist and winner of the 2018 Instant Award in Improvised Music), the Chicago-based team of Lou Mallozzi and Douglas Ewart, veteran percussionist Gerry Hemingway, Norwegian pianist Havard Wiik, Luke Stewart, Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen and Kent Kessler, trumpeter Greg Kelley, Ben Goldberg and Michael Coleman, Bonnie Jones, the impossible piano of Kris Davis, Wayne Horvitz and Sara Schoenbeck, saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, Chattanooga's own LaDonna Smith, Booker Stardrum and Beth McDonald and Dave Rempis, and young guitar sensation Sandy Ewen.
By turns haunting, abrasive, lyrical, absurd, bracing, and hilarious, Option 1 in fact offers many different options - a smorgasbord of alternatives representing the exciting, multifaceted reality of free music in its contemporary manifestation."-Corbett Vs. Dempsey
Includes an insert sheet with an essay about the Option Series from Ken Vandermark.