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Crazy Doberman

"Everyone Is Rolling Down A Hill" ... [VINYL]

Crazy Doberman:

The Indiana collective Crazy Doberman in a 15-performer configuration including core members Tim Gick and Drew Davis, merging jazz and indescribable approaches to free improvisation with a mix of acoustic & electronic instruments, building their pieces from mysteriously cantankerous rumination to ecstatic grooves and much in-between.
 

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Personnel:



Bradley Fantuzzi-performer

Brett Green-performer

Casey Flanagan-performer

Casey Synesael-performer

Drew Davis-performer

Erick Van Ficken-performer

Hector Castro-performer

J. Russ-performer

Jason Filer-performer

Jason Hodges-performer

Jordan Allen-performer

Kyle Flanagan-performer

Paul Baldwin-performer

Zach Rowden-performer

Zeno Ben-Amotz-performer


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Label: Astral Spirits
Catalog ID: AS170
Squidco Product Code: 31164

Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2021
Country: USA
Packaging: LP
Recorded at sans studio, rva, in October, 2020, by Tim Glick and Johnathan Kassalow.

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"Crazy Doberman are an Indiana free-improvisation and jazz collective created in 2016 as an offshoot of the group Doberman, started three years before. Core members, including Tim Gick and Doberman cofounder Drew Davis, appear on many recordings, but Crazy Doberman's lineup is loose-it varies on each of the band's 40-plus albums and has featured dozens of musicians, among them Wolf Eyes' John Olson and percussionist Tyler Damon. While different albums have different flavors-This Land God Has Abandoned is all brooding mystique, while - / Haunted, Non / Haunted features some of their most acerbic electronics-there's a tightness and sustained energy on every recording. [...]"-Joshua Minsoo Kim, The Chicago Reader


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Artist Biographies

Drew Davis is a trumpet player, known for the groups Crazy Doberman, Doberman, Dracula Pamphlet, Marsh Chapel, Night Shade, Public Puberty, and Rural Tourniquet.

-Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/artist/6689716-Drew-Davis-5)
3/13/2024

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Zach Rowden is a bassist and violinist from Richmond, Virginia now living in New Haven, Connecticut who works at Tri-Centric Foundation. He studied at University of Hartford. He is known for the group Tongue Depressor with Henry Birdsey.

-Squidco 3/13/2024

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Track Listing:



SIDE A



1. Five Ghosts Share A Chair On An Autumn Day In Siberia 02:07

2. The Repeaters 04:12

3. Murro Egg Robber Hero 01:12

4. As The Wind Winds Tightly 'Round The Loom 04:43

5. Inverted Pyramids Slowly Projected From The Firmament 06:26

SIDE A



1. A Place To Hide From The Rain 00:59

2. While The World Dries Out Around The Fire 03:03

3. Strange New Life Forms Emerge 05:26

4. The Past Haunts The Present 04:17

5. Cold Comfort In Memoriam 04:38

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Vinyl Recordings
Improvised Music
Free Improvisation
Electro-Acoustic
Electro-Acoustic Improv
Rock and Related
Improvised Rock
Large Ensembles
Chicago Jazz & Improvisation

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