In the spring of 2015 multi-reedist and wind player Perry Robinson travelled to Southern California for a series of concerts, recording this duo with Italian percussionist living on the US West Coast Andrea Centazzo, a free and open session with Robison on clarinet, micro ocarina & bird calls, and Centazzo also using a MalletKat & sampling.
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Perry Robinson-clarinet, Micro Ocarina, bird calls
Andrea Centazzo-percussion, MalletKat, sampling
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UPC: 814519025870
Label: Ictus
Catalog ID: ICT 177
Squidco Product Code: 28752
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2020
Country: Italy
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded on May 30, 2015at Peter KuhnÕs house in San Diego, CA, USA. Recording engineer: Nathan Hubbard.
"Perry travelled to Southern California in May-June 2015; his onetime pupil, Peter Kuhn, and I - both live in San Diego - organized some concerts and recording dates. Back in 2006, I toured across the East Coast with Perry and Andrea. While this trio jelled (check The Soul in the Mist on Ictus), I wanted to hear Perry and Andrea in free spirited duo. So Andrea - who calls Long Beach home - drove down to San Diego with his percussion array.
First, the duo gigged at the Taoist Sanctuary on Park Blvd. This was Perry's first local appearance in ages. Secretly, I was hoping to witness the shadow of "Clangs" by Lacy & Centazzo, recorded in 1976. Of course, Robinson was not Steve - different instruments, conceptions and temperaments - not to mention Andrea had come a long way from his halcyon days with the soprano sax master. So my preconception was unfulfilled, naturally.
Nevertheless, Perry and Andrea inhabited the same space - the space filled with sounds coming out of silence. Their musicality was inherently harmonious or what the Japanese would call "a-un (阿吽)". So I experienced the magic, nonetheless.
On the following day, the duo improvised to record at Peter's house overlooking Pacific Beach. Nathan Hubbard, who normally anchors drums, engineered. Perry loved it. Andrea cherished it. And we were all inspired. We also promised to release it - but failed to deliver. So the tape sat incubating.
On the day Perry left, my wife - who had become close to him - felt the traveling wind. Twice. Without knowing his departure. Peter felt the same. I did not but called Andrea. So you can all hear the music.
But this is all for you, my friend, The Traveler."-Nobu Stowe October 9, 2019
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Perry Robinson "Perry Morris Robinson (born September 17, 1938) is an American jazz clarinetist and composer. He is the son of the composer Earl Robinson. Robinson was born and grew up in New York City. He attended the Lenox School of Jazz in Massachusetts in the summer of 1959. Robinson served in a U.S. military band in the early 1960s. His first record, Funk Dumpling (with Kenny Barron, Henry Grimes, and Paul Motian) was recorded in 1962. He also appeared with Grimes on The Call in 1965, on the ESP-Disk label (ESP 1026). Although the album is credited to "Henry Grimes Trio" the album liner notes, written by ESP-Disk label head Bernard Stollman, state: "[Grimes] chose Perry Robinson, a virtuoso who merits far wider recognition, to pair with, and this recording reflects both of their contributions, in equal measure. A more accurate title for the album would be Henry Grimes/Perry Robinson." Two of the album's six songs are credited to Robinson, including the title track. An LP copy of this album can be seen hanging on the wall of the protagonist's apartment in the 2006 film Half Nelson. Since 1973 he has worked with Jeanne Lee and Gunter Hampel's Galaxie Dream Band. He contributed to Dave Brubeck' s Two Generations of Brubeck and played with Burton Greene' s Dutch klezmer band Klezmokum. He was the featured clarinetist on Archie Shepp's LP Mama Too Tight on Impulse Records. He has led his own groups in performances and on record, with albums on the Chiaroscuro, WestWind, and Timescraper labels. More recently, he worked with William Parker and Walter Perkins on Bob's Pink Cadillac and several discs on the CIMP label. From 1975 until 1977, Robinson was member of a band called Clarinet Contrast, featuring German clarinet players Theo Jörgensmann and Bernd Konrad. He has recorded with Lou Grassi as a member of his PoBand since the late Nineties, and with Lou Grassi, Wayne Lopes and Luke Faust in The Jug Jam, an improvisational jug band. He plays in a free jazz and world music trio along with tabla player Badal Roy and bassist Ed Schuller, with whom he recorded the CD Raga Roni. He has played with Darius Brubeck and Muruga Booker in the MBR jazz trio. Robinson also played an integral part in the formation of Cosmic Legends, an improvisational music/performance group led by composer/pianist Sylvie Degiez which included musicians Rashied Ali, Wayne Lopes, Hayes Greenfield, and Michael Hashim. In 2005 he was featured on his cousin Jeffrey Lewis' album City and Eastern Songs on Rough Trade Records, produced by Kramer. His most recent release was OrthoFunkOlogy in 2008 with the band Free Funk, also featuring Muruga Booker, Badal Roy, and Shakti Ma Booker. His autobiography, Perry Robinson: The Traveler (co-authored by Florence F. Wetzel), was published in 2002." ^ Hide Bio for Perry Robinson • Show Bio for Andrea Centazzo "In an artistic career that spans over twentyfive years, Andrea Centazzo has given more than 1000 concerts and live performances in Europe and the United States, as well as having appeared and performed on numerous radio and television broadcasts. He has recorded over 60 LP's and CD's, and has authored 350 compositions and eight musicology books. His musical endeavors and creative expression range from the sublime to the passionate, from lyric opera to orchestral symphony and solo percussion. He has performed in momentous festivals as soloist of his own compositions or as conductor of symphonic orchestras. Centazzo is a pioneer of contemporary percussion. In the early years, he performed with some of the greatest avant-garde soloists and composers, including J. Zorn, S. Bussotti, S. Lacy, D. Cherry, A. Mangellsdorf, E. Parker, etc. Deservedly, Centazzo has received a number of prestigious music and video Awards (Premio Speciale della Critica Discografica Italiana, USA Downbeat Poll, International Video Festival Tokyo, Prix Arcanal of French Culture, etc.) A doctoral graduate in musicology, he has taught seminars and workshops in Europe and the USA. Since 1983, Centazzo has been dedicated to creating multi-media experiences. This expansion began with an exhibition of his scores rendered as painted ideograms, and evolved into video performances combining both live performance with video images. These efforts culminated in his directing award-winning videos and films. As a soundtrack composer, he unites traditional instrumentation with current technological advances in musical expression through sampling machines and computers. These efforts give a new perspective to the fusion of sound and image through his theatre, television, video, CD rom, and feature film scores. The music of A.C. captures and expresses the rhythm and pulse of life by synthesizing the mystery of Oriental percussive vibrations with the timbral harmonic understanding of contemporary music and the soul of jazz and rock post-culture. A.C. continues to contribute his unique artistic vision to the evolution of contemporary culture." ^ Hide Bio for Andrea Centazzo
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Track Listing:
1. The Journey #1 05:59
2. The Journey #2 05:14
3. The Journey #3 03:52
4. The Journey #4 04:31
5. The Journey #5 04:04
6. The Journey #6 04:59
7. The Journey #7 06:06
8. The Journey #8 04:41
9. The Journey #9 06:19
10. The Journey #10 03:39
11. The Journey #11 05:01
12. The Journey #12 03:53
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