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friday
morning everywhere I've
communicated with Glenn on an internetty basis for some years via the
freejazz.org website, and he was the moving force for 'Blind Chaos Free
Dada' (whi 005), so a more elaborate exploration of our various sound
worlds seemed like a natural and comfortable development. In case
you're curious, the MO for this was that we each sent the other some
solo/seed recordings including environmental recordings of our two
locations. We then played along with them, manipulated them and
generally do the things that people of our ilk are prone to do, and
then posted them around and back till we felt we'd finished. In this
event, i got to do the finishing off; the voices went on near the end
of each track, and it was my decision to go for shorter pieces. Many of
the things that we'd ended up with were 20-30 minute-long pieces that
evolved gradually over time. I've got no problem with that, it just
wasn't where my head was in that timeframe, and as i was being allowed
to play dictator, that's what i dictated. For myself, i feel it makes a
more listenable CD: live i might make different decisions, and in fact
next year i might, as well - that's the nature of the project. Even
though it was recorded, we're improvisers, and as such i (and i think
we, as well) tried to keep to the spirit of improvisation, by
respecting earlier decisions, and not over-interfering with the flow,
letting the sound dictate the direction. Hopefully, as a result, it's a
record of the time it was created in, and the people who lived in those
times. We've taken the decision not to charge for this recording, so it's available as a free download in MP3 format, AAC or lossless FLAC, via the good offices of the nice people at Bandcamp. This is a 'pay what you like' arrangement; if you insert £0 into the box, you won't be asked for card/paypal details.
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Downloads
Downloads are handled by Bandcamp.com: this is a 'name your price' arrangement - feel free to name a price of £0 if that's what you want (in which case you won't be asked for card or paypal details). Or to name a higher price, if that's what you think it's worth. As things stand, the only take out of that is PayPal fees: the rest goes to offsetting whi music's costs, and if there's any left over, to the musicians involved. One benefit of using Bandcamp is that there is a lot of flexibility over formats: the album is hence available in most, if not all, of the popular formats, including lossless formats that are CD quality, as well as allowing free streaming of tracks. Download whole album here
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