


The core trio of the Leap of Faith Orchestra--PEK on clarinets, saxophones, clarinets & flutes, Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice, and Yuri Zbitnov on drums & percussion--is joined by fellow Orchestra violinist Mimi Rabson and special guest, violinist Elinor Speirs, for a remarkable improvised work using a huge arsenal of instruments including a new Brontosaurus Bell.
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David Peck (PEK)-clarinet, Contraalto clarinet, sopranino, bamboo soprano, alto, tenor saxophone, bass saxophones, contrabasson, English horn, tarota, sheng, log drums, balafon, aquasonic, [d]Ronin, wood, metal, brontosaurus bell, orchestral chimes, voice
Glynis Lomon-cello, aquasonic, voice
Mimi Rabson-violin, metal, wood, aquasonic
Elinor Speirs-violin
Yuri Zbitnoff-drums, talking drum, wood, metal, brontosaurus bell, [d]Ronin, daxophone, aquasonic, orchestral chimes
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Label: Evil Clown
Catalog ID: 9183
Squidco Product Code: 26544
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2018
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded at Evil Clown Headquarters, in Waltham, Massachusetts, on June 21st, 2018.
"Leap of Faith is the core trio of the Leap of Faith Orchestra (LOFO) comprised of PEK on clarinets, saxophones, clarinets & flutes, Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice, and Yuri Zbitnov on drums & percussion. The ensemble is based in Boston and dates back to the early 90s. We utilize a huge arsenal of additional Evil Clown instruments to improvise long works featuring transformations across highly varied sonorities. The ensemble has always been highly modular and our many recordings feature the core trio in dozens of configurations with a huge list of guests.
Mimi Rabson is our star violinist from the Leap of Faith Orchestra. She is a brilliant and highly in demand player who also teaches at Berklee. We love playing with Mimi and have her play with us as often as we can. In order to keep momentum that comes from regular sessions in small improvisation units, Glynis, Yuri and myself work around MimiÕs availability to schedule as many Evil Clown Headquarters sessions as we can. To date, we have recorded 3 prior excellent sessions at ECH in addition to Topological Constructions: Semantic Differentials (April 2018), ZenoÕs Paradox (September 2017) and Thought Experiment (November 2017).
Violinist Elinor Speirs is our special guest for Topological Constructions. She is working on a DMA at New England Conservatory, like our regular LOFO member Dan OÕBrien. I contacted her hoping she could be in the string section for the performance of my work for improvisation orchestra, Cosmological Horizons, next month at Killian Hall MIT. Unfortunately, she canÕt make CH, so we decided to get her together with this small Strings variation of Leap of Faith at Evil Clown Headquarters. Glynis, Mimi and Elinor were a spectacular string section indeed!! Hopefully weÕll see more of Elinor in the futureÉ
Worthy of note is the newest arsenal acquisition, the Brontosaurus Bell, which is making its Leap of Faith premiere on this recording. This is an extraordinarily large (32 inches) cow bell which someone welded together and hung from a huge heavy stand. No cows are big enough for this bell, so IÕm calling it the Brontosaurus Bell. Turns out this instrument has lots of different amazing sounds depending on where, with what, and how hard you strike it!! It has sounds like from a thunder sheet or rapidly decaying gong. A perfect complement to the already huge set of metal percussion instrumentsÉ.
One special thing about the ECH sessions is the ready availability of all of the instruments in the Evil Clown Arsenal. The studio is pretty big, but there is not enough room for the entire Arsenal, so we select auxiliary instruments until the room is full. The available sound palette is the biggest we customarily use except for full Orchestra shows at larger venues (when we move it all with a truck)."-PEK, 23 June 2018

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