An embraceable & explorative example of the core duo of the Boston-area free improvising ensemble Leap of Faith (the foundation of the Leap of Faith Orchestra) of David Peck on reeds and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice, both employing the enormous Evil Clown arsenal of percussive and sonic devices, in two large works recorded at their headquarter studio.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2020 Country: USA Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded at Evil Clown Headquarters, in Waltham, Massachusetts, on January 23rd, and February 13th, 2020, by Joel Simches.
"Leap of Faith is the duo comprised of PEK on clarinets, saxophones, clarinets and flutes, and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic and voice. The ensemble is based in Boston and dates back to the early 90s. They utilize a huge arsenal of additional instruments to improvise long works featuring transformations across highly varied sonorities."-Relative Pitch
"[...] Leap of Faith is the core duet of the Leap of Faith Orchestra (LOFO) comprised of PEK on clarinets, saxophones, clarinets & flutes, and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice. 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. At times, the core unit has been a trio or even a quartet. The longest running core unit was comprised of PEK, Glynis and drummer Yuri Zbitnov, who played for the last couple of years of the archival period and the first 5 years of the reboot starting in 2015. The ensemble has always been highly modular and our many recordings (well over 100) feature the various core units in dozens of configurations with a huge list of guests and occasionally as only the core unit with no guests
There are relatively few recordings of the PEK/Lomon core duet without other players since previous core units have generally been trios/quartets. There are, however, a few sets from the archival period in the 90s and the more recent Categories of Being and Their Relations from July of 2018. It is interesting to expose Glynis and myself without other performers, since out history is so long and since in many ways the development of my mature improvisation language is a direct response to Glynis'. The core duet behaves as a bellwether to the balance of larger ensembles, guiding the improvisation, and when presented alone, reveals our deep connection not always so readily apparent in bigger bands
In 2014, I was working in NYC for my day gig and I swung by Downtown Music Gallery where I had been a mail order customer for years. I had a great conversation with Bruce Lee Gallanter and the next week I sent him a bunch of CDs recorded during the archival period. Bruce sold these CDs quite well and I later realized that Kevin Reilly and a few of his NY pals had purchased the lion's share. Kevin became a fan and has purchased many of our releases from bandcamp. Kevin runs Relative Pitch Records which releases CDs by many of the movers and shakers in the downtown improvisation scene... At the end of last year Kevin asked me if Glynis and I would like to record for Relative Pitch and I immediately responded in the affirmative since we will be in such amazing company!
I scheduled two sessions in January and February 2020 with Glynis, myself and the Evil Clown resident recording engineer Joel Simches. Instead of our typical full concert duration of 70 minutes, we played two 35 minutes pieces at each recording session. We then selected two of the tracks for Principles of an Open Future for Relative Pitch and two of the tracks for Phenomena which is available now on bandcamp and our other regular venues..."-David Peck (PEK) from the liner notes