The debut of this reconfigured Boston-area trio drawn from the Leap of Faith lineup, starting with the core duo of PEK on clarinets, saxophones, clarinets & flutes, and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice, with guest Eric Woods on synth and percussion, the trio using heavy percussion and electronics gear in a unique journey of extended freeform improvisation.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2020 Country: USA Packaging: Digipack Recorded live at Evil Clown Headquarters in Waltham, Massachutsus, on February 15th, 2020.
"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 core unit in dozens of configurations with a huge list of guests and occasionally as only the core unit with no guests.
Eric Woods, our guest for this performance, is Evil Clown's resident expert at analog synthesis... He has appeared on 9 Metal Chaos Ensemble albums and 5 Leap of Faith Orchestra albums. Two of his LOFO appearances have been on my graphic notation scores for the full orchestra and three have been with the LOFO & Sub-Units shows at Third Life Studios. This is his first set in a small ensemble format Leap of Faith performance.
You can go to Eric's Evil Clown bio page for links to his performances with LOFO & MCE along with other cool content... https://www.evilclown.rocks/bio-eric-woods.htmlOriginally, this set was supposed to occur at Outpost 186, where Evil Clown has a 3rd Saturday residency dating back 4 or 5 years now. Although I have cancelled a few sets there over the years due to adverse winter or extreme summer heat conditions, this was the first time that the venue has needed to cancel... Rob is having some conflict with the city of Cambridge that he needs to resolve... Anyway, one advantage of having built out Evil Clown Headquarters to be a LIVESTREAMING YouTube venue, is that it is always available. That's great for scheduling recordings / streaming performances, but occasionally really great for an instant venue change!!!
The instrumental resources available at Evil Clown Headquarters far exceed what I can transport to Outpost 186 or fit in their small space. So, the debut of this trio LOF lineup had access to the heavy percussion and electronics gear which is too much to move for a live performance in a small space. This is equipment that I always use for Metal Chaos Ensemble which typically contains more rock elements than Leap of Faith. For this set, we use the electronics and percussion without the rock elements of groove, electric bass and the drum set, suitable for Leap of Faith. I think this was a fantastic set and am already planning for more sets in the future from this very different new Leap of Faith trio configuration."-PEK, from the liner notes