Quintet and sextet recordings from the Polyorchard group of Jeb Bishop on trombone, Chris Eubank on cello, Bill McConaghy on trumpet, David Menestres on double bass, David Morris on tuba, Dan Ruccia on viola, Jeb Bishop on trombone, and Jacob Wick on trumpet, recording at "The Store" in Raleigh, NC, for sublime and complex and collective free improvisation.
Label: Out and Gone Music Catalog ID: OG006 Squidco Product Code: 26080
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2018 Country: USA Packaging: Digipack Quintet recorded live at The Store on April 5th, 2015, and Sextet recorded liev at The Store in Raleigh, NC on February 28th, 2015, by Dan Lilley.
"I love the electrical infrastructure that crisscrosses the landscape. The substations, the power lines, the pylons, the cooling towers from a nuclear plant peaking above the horizon. The way birds and animals interact with the wires and fences, not giving a damn about our arbitrary borders, shitting on whatever they want. This is all visual pollution, tons and tons of unnecessary equipment infesting the planet, metallic cankers standing as monuments to our stupidity and shortsightedness.
If we'd listened to Nikola Tesla, we'd have wireless transmission of free electricity for all. Instead, we're tied to monopolistic utility companies, our landscape is blighted by the substations, the power lines, the pylons. Our world is polluted nearly beyond repair from coal ash and radioactive waste that will be problematic for hundreds of thousands of years to come. Instead of passing on a dream, we will leave an endless nightmare of corruption and filth to every generation that comes after us. There are moments in life when one can manage the wireless transmission of electricity, when one can illuminate the darkness through sheer force of will, if only for a few moments.
At our best, this is what Polyorchard is, a power station generating electrical thought patterns transmitted outwards, from musician to musician, to the microphones, to the audience, and into the endless aether."-David Menestres