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Hemingway, Gerry: Kernelings [CD + DVD] (Auricle)

Drummer Gerry Hemingway in a CD & DVD release, 15 audio tracks and accompanying video and interview, dividing the program into "mist, dust, light, and sex", highlighting aspects of this prominent percussionist that expand our understanding of his prodigious abilities.
 

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CD & DVD Video; NTSC; Region Free; Aspect ration 16:9, 720x480. Dolby audio.

UPC: 700261398204

Label: Auricle
Catalog ID: AUR 12+13
Squidco Product Code: 18695

Format: CD & DVD
Condition: New
Released: 2014
Country: USA
Packaging: CD & DVD in a cardstock sleeve
Recorded by Gerry Hemingway 2007-2009 in Plainsboro, NJ, and In 2010-2012 Luzern, CH. "Steel And Bass" recorded by Thomas Lehn in NYC, NY, March 12, 2005.


Personnel:



Gerry Hemingway-drum set, percussion, harmonica, voice, live electronics


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Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"Drummer Gerry Hemingway penned these solo works from 1995-2012 and recorded the album at various points during this timeframe. Essentially, the CD and companion DVD pinpoint his artistic proclivities partly framed in multimedia. It took 15 years to complete the project. The program is divided into four parts: mist, dust, light, and sex, although the CD track list solely denotes the 15 works appearing in sequential order without references to the four topics.

Viewing the film is meant to be an integrative experience with the aural component. For example, on the "Mist" segment, text is displayed trickling into a blue backdrop of the slowly moving water current, featuring Hemingway's shadowy percussion regimen, serving as the soundtrack. Elsewhere, Hemingway is shown tapping and dampening his snare drum via a solo spot commingled with angular photographic effects, visuals and abstracts. This is followed by a conventional solo, providing credence to some of the amazing things he can devise with his five-piece kit. There's also an interview on the DVD, where the artist discusses a need to "expand his tools of expression" with film. As for the music, he launches a series of disparate and rhythmically diverse tone poems amid polytonal treatments with his deployment of live electronics and other percussion implements. He sometimes cast incorporeal sensations into these imaginative pieces.

"B Slow" is enacted with a minimalist vibe, executed with a slow drag beat and poignantly placed rim-shots. And he progresses the metronomic "Steel and Bass" from a simple steel drum and bass drum vamp into a polyrhythmic tour de force. Indeed, Hemingway is passionate about his muse. On "Calling You," he superimposes an old low-fi radio broadcast, weaving around his pungent drumming, yet conveys rustic ambiance on harmonica with "Up on High." During other works, he perhaps unintentionally mimics paranormal-like activity due to his live electronics effects. However, the opening piece titled "Ringo," is apparently an ode to The Beatles" Ringo Starr. He follows suit on a track inspired by the great swing drummer Chick Webb, which is simply titled "For Chick Webb." Here, Hemingway keeps the bass drum pumping, using cross-sticking techniques, sweeping press rolls and altering the flow with multi-part patterns along with some serious, bump-and-grind maneuvers.

For those who have been following the drummer's impressive legacy in progressive and avant-jazz stylizations, you get to see and hear an atypical part of his artistry. His breadth of scope channeled through the viewing glass of art shines throughout this radical reformulation of standard solo drumming fare, amalgamated with his off-center filmography and a penchant for broadening his horizons."-Glenn Astarita, All About Jazz


CD & DVD Video; NTSC; Region Free; Aspect ration 16:9, 720x480. Dolby audio.

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Artist Biographies

"Gerry Hemingway has led a number of quartet and quintets since the mid 1980's. In addition he has been a member of a wide array of long standing collaborative groups including Brew with Reggie Workman and Miya Masaoka, the GRH trio with Georg Graewe and Ernst Reijseger, the WHO trio with Michel Wintsch and Bänz Oester, as well as numerous duo projects with Thomas Lehn, John Butcher, Ellery Eskelin, Marilyn Crispell, and others. Mr. Hemingway is a Guggenheim fellow and has received numerous commissions for chamber and orchestral works as well as being noted for his innovative and multifaceted work as a solo performer which began in 1974. He was a member of the Anthony Braxton Quartet between 1983 and 1994 and is also well known for his collaborations with some of the world's most outstanding improvisers and composers including Evan Parker, Cecil Taylor, Mark Dresser, Anthony Davis, Derek Bailey, Leo Smith and many others. He currently lives in Switzerland having joined the faculty of the Hochschule Luzern in 2009."

-Gerry Hemingway Website (http://www.gerryhemingway.com)
9/18/2023

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Track Listing:



1. Ringo 1:08

2. Hymn Away 6:10

3. Dust 1:15

4. May Bell 4:28

5. B Slow 6:20

6. Ohwoshegoshesay 2:10

7. Bluethroat 7:31

8. For Whom 5:51

9. Steel and Bass 6:49

10. Calling You 5:57

11. B Slow Again 1:57

12. Up on High 2:46

13. Snares 3:55

14. For Chick Webb 5:27

15. Slowings 2:36

Related Categories of Interest:


Improvised Music
Free Improvisation
NY Downtown & Jazz/Improv
DVD
Percussion & Drums
Solo Artist Recordings
Electronic Forms

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