West Coast oboist and english horn improviser composes a startlingly enjoyable work based on Matt Shears' book of recursive, encyclopedic poetry of the same name: 10 pieces colliding elements of skronk, spoken word, fried electroacoustic noise and dark prog within a Creative Music framework, with a core quartet of Aram Shelton, Jason Hoopes and Jordan Glenn, plus guest Weston Olencki and a large cast of readers.
Label: Not Two Catalog ID: MW 955-2 Squidco Product Code: 24309
Format: 2 CDs Condition: New Released: 2017 Country: Poland Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded in September of 2016 by Myles Boisen at Guerrilla Recording in Oakland, CA. Mixed and Mastered by Myles Boisen at the Headless Buddha Mastering Lab, Oakland, CA.
"After 13 busy years maintaining poly-stylistic sideman duties and long-distance collaborations with former Chicago comrades, Kyle Bruckmann finally busts out as bandleader of a San Francisco Bay Area ensemble. Gleefully colliding elements of skronk, fried electroacoustic noise and dark prog within a Creative Music framework, DEGRADIENT adds a significant chunk of heavy to Bruckmann's signature gimmicks of jittery polyrhythmic clatter, formal complexity, black humor, and all-around sensory overload.The core quartet features his fellow Chicago ex-pat Aram Shelton along with the in-demand rhythm section (currently driving groups including Jack O' the Clock and the Fred Frith Trio) of Jason Hoopes and Jordan Glenn. Guests include trombonist Weston Olencki (winner of the 2016 Kranichsteiner prize at Darmstadt, who has also worked with Wet Ink and Ensemble Pampelmousse), and volatile vocalists Danishta Rivero (Las Sucias, Voicehandler) and Eugene S. Robinson (Oxbow).
Dear Everyone takes its oblique inspiration from the recursive, encyclopedic poetry of Bruckmann's friend Matt Shears. The book of the same name, published in 2016 by Brooklyn Arts Press, was pegged by early reviews as "pitched dead between thrilling and numbing" with "an absurdist, dark sense of humor." Bruckmann spent months carrying around a recorder and a fistful of crumpled pages, shoving them into unsuspecting hands, asking friends and family for spontaneous, clumsy readings of fragments. In the end, 99 voices wound up in the cut-up stew."-Dear Everyone 1-sheet
"For more than two decades, composer/performer Kyle Bruckmann has asserted an otherwise unparalleled role for the oboe within the Creative Music continuum. His varied work, featured on more than 60 albums, extends from a classical foundation into gray areas encompassing free jazz, electronic music and noisy post-punk rock. Since moving to Oakland, CA, he has performed with the San Francisco Symphony and most of the area's regional orchestras while remaining active within an international community of improvisers and sound artists. He is currently a member of new music collective sfSound, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Eco Ensemble, and Splinter Reeds. From 1996-2003, he was a fixture in Chicago's experimental music underground; long-term affiliations dating from that era include the electro-acoustic duo EKG, the artpunk monstrosity Lozenge, and the Creative Music quintet Wrack."-Not Two