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Dresser, Mark / Denman Maroney : Duologues (Les Disques Victo)

Great duo set from bassist Dresser and "hyperpiano" (read: heavily prepared) player Maroney.
 

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Mark Dresser-bass

Denman Maroney-piano


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UPC: 777405007322

Label: Les Disques Victo
Catalog ID: VICCD073
Squidco Product Code: 734

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2001
Country: Canada
Packaging: Jewel Tray
Recorded at Acoustic Recording Studio, in Brooklyn, New York, on November 4th, 2000.

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Great duo set from bassist Dresser and "hyperpiano" (read: heavily prepared) player Maroney.


Artist Biographies

Mark Dresser is a Grammy nominated, internationally renowned bass player, improviser, composer, and interdisciplinary collaborator. At the core of his music is an artistic obsession and commitment to expanding the sonic, musical, and expressive possibilities of the contrabass. He has recorded over one hundred thirty CDs including three solo CDs and a DVD. From 1985 to 1994, he was a member of Anthony Braxton's Quartet, which recorded nine CDs and was the subject of Graham Locke's book Forces in Motion (Da Capo). He has also performed and recorded music of Ray Anderson, Jane Ira Bloom, Tim Berne, Anthony Davis, Dave Douglas, Osvaldo Golijov, Gerry Hemingway, Bob Ostertag, Joe Lovano, Roger Reynolds, Henry Threadgill, Dawn Upshaw, John Zorn. Dresser most recent and internationally acclaimed new music for jazz quintet, Nourishments (2013) his latest CD (Clean Feed) marks his re-immersion as a bandleader. Since 2007 he has been deeply involved in telematic music performance and education. He was awarded a 2015 Shifting Foundation Award and 2015 Doris Duke Impact Award. He is Professor of Music at University of California, San Diego.

- Website (https://www.mark-dresser.com/bio)
12/11/2024

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"The music of "hyperpianist" Denman Maroney (born 1949) is inspired by nature and the music of John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Henry Cowell, Duke Ellington, Charles Ives, Scott Joplin, Olivier Messiaen, Thelonious Monk, Conlon Nancarrow and Karheinz Stockhausen among others. Maroney plays what he calls hyperpiano, which involves bowing and sliding the strings with copper bars, steel cylinders, Tibetan prayer bowls, rubber blocks and CD cases and gives him a unique sonic vocabulary. He also uses a system of temporal harmony based on the undertone series that allows him to improvise and compose in several tempos at once.

Maroney also has worked with musicians Tim Berne, Jane Ira Bloom, Jon Deak, John King, Garrett List, Roger Miller, Michael Moore, Bob Ostertag, William Parker, Bobby Previte, Ed Schuller, Elliot Sharp and Peter Zummo among others, and dance and theater artists Davidson Lloyd, Sin Cha Hong, Tom Keegan, Tom Lillard, Erin Martin, Wendy Osserman and Mel Wong among others.

Maroney was educated at Cal. Inst. of the Arts (MFA '74), Bennington College and Williams College (BA '71). His teachers included John Bergamo, Alan Chaplin, Bill Dixon, Jimmy Garrison, Leonid Hambro, Ingram Marshall, Steven Mosko, Morton Subotnick, and James Tenney."

-Denman Maroney Website (http://www.denmanmaroney.com/Bio.html)
12/11/2024

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Track Listing:



1. Pulse Feel 6:50

2. Fanfare For The Rare Woman 1:12

3. Slithereens 2:03

4. Oscicaglia 3:06

5. Amalgamon 8:26

6. Throso 2:53

7. Bali Nigh 2:55

8. Bozcaada 5:53

9. Pegmatitic 4:55

10. Arco Optic 7:59

11. Bendango 3:02

12. Norma 4:09

13. Subtonic 5:05

14. Throsone 3:59

Related Categories of Interest:

Stringed Instruments
Piano & Keyboards
Improvised Music
Victo
NY Downtown & Metropolitan Jazz/Improv
Free Improvisation
Duo Recordings
Before April-2006

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