Saxophonist & flutist Bonnie Kane (W.O.O.) joins the Turbulence group, the extended horn section of the Leap of Faith Orchestra from Boston area collective Evil Clown led by David Peck (PEK), a concert that was live-streamed to Youtube during the Covid-19 Pandemic in February 2020, in a sextet with four reedists, two trumpeters, electronics, drums & extensive percussion.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2020 Country: USA Packaging: Digipack Recorded at Evil Clown Headquarters, in Waltham, Massachusetts, on February 29th, 2020.
Personnel:
David Peck (PEK)-clarinet, contrabass clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, guanzi, contrabassoon, sheng, melodica, Russian wood flute, Christmas flute, game calls, gongs, brontosaurus bells, tank bells, orchestral chimes, crotales, Englephone, Tibetan bowls, balafon, wood blocks, castenets, [d]ronin, daxophone, synthesizer, theremin through moogerfooger, malletkat through moog subsequent
"I formed Turbulence in 2015 as I started to assemble players for the Leap of Faith Orchestra. Turbulence, the extended horn section for the Orchestra (along with guests on other instruments), also records and performs as an independent unit. As if this writing in November of 2019, we have recorded just shy of 30 albums on Evil Clown with greatly varied ensembles. All of the smaller Evil Clown bands are really more about a general approach, rather than a specific set of musicians. A session gets credited to Turbulence when it is mostly horn players and the only musician on all of them is myself. The sessions range from an early duet with Steve Norton and Myself (Vortex Generation Mechanisms) to a 5 horn band with bass and two percussionists (Encryption Schemes) to four albums by the side project Turbulence Doom Choir which feature myself, multiple tubas, percussion, electronics and signal processing.
The Paroxysmal Attack album (3 November 2019) was intended to be the debut appearance of Bonnie Kane from western Mass. She is well connected with a scene in Holyoke that has a bunch of players unknown to us and she presents a monthly recurring concert that Leap of Faith performed at two days prior to this performance (The Thursday Night Experiment No. 38). Anyway, last Spring, Yuri and I had trekked from Boston down to Maryland for a Metal Chaos Ensemble gig at the Merry Pranksters promotion of Vermin Supreme for President... A real guy, look him up... Bonnie had come down and was performing with Urban Shaman Attack - the band who had invited us to the show. We got to talking and realized that we were only an hour apart, so I set up the Paroxysmal Attack set around her availability and added some horn players from the Evil Clown regulars.
Bonnie plays tenor sax and flute and uses her own real-time electronic manipulations on those sounds. Usually for a Turbulence set at ECH, we use horns and percussion and some electronics. Anyway, Bonnie had a nasty flu and was too wiped out for the travel and the session went on without her. We were both disappointed and immediately began work on rescheduling. We decided to invite her regular drummer John Loggia to join us and eventually we landed on 29 February for the set and I invited some of the regular horn players to join in. This was a great performance since Bob, Eric, Mike and myself have played together quite a bit in a variety of contexts, and Bonnie and John also have a long running history. In the past, I have found that when several players come to Evil Clown together things are often very interesting... Here we had a sextet comprised of a quartet and a duet, opening up lots of possibility for new inter