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Razor Swirl - The Dick​/​Lytle​/​Maroney Trio

by elewhale music

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Razor Swirl 27:03
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The Empty Wave 18:54
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Clang Bird (encore) 08:18
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released December 6, 2015

Robert Dick - Flutes
Michael Lytle - Bass Clarinet
Denman Maroney - Piano

Recorded and mixed by Michael Lytle

This is a live recording of a performance made at Spectrum, New York City in October, 2015

DENMAN MARONEY – The music of “hyperpianist” Denman Maroney (MFA, Cal. Inst. Of the Arts) is inspired by nature and the music of John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Henry Cowell, Charles Ives, Olivier Messiaen, Thelonious Monk, Conlon Nancarrow and Karheinz Stockhausen among others. His “hyperpiano” involves bowing and sliding the strings with copper bars, steel cylinders, Tibetan prayer bowls, rubber blocks and CD cases and gives him a unique sonic vocabulary. He also uses a system of temporal harmony based on the undertone series that allows him to improvise and compose in several tempos at once. Maroney has made 29 commercial recordings and collaborators include, Shelley Hirsch, Ned Rothenberg, Reuben Radding, Mark Dresser, Hans Tammen, Leroy Jenkins, Min Xiao-Fen, Dave Douglas, Robert Dick, and Gerry Hemingway. www.denmanmaroney.com

MICHAEL LYTLE - (aka elewhale), MA, University of Iowa, has been a New Music Improviser since 1968. He has performed with William Parsons, Karl Berger, George Cartwright, Garrett List, David Moss, John Zorn, Nick Didkovsky, Hans Burgener, Martin Schutz, Gerry Hemingway, Mark Dresser, Eyal Maoz, Mari Kimura, Robert Dick and has been involved in over 30 recordings since the 5* rated Iowa Ear Music of 1976. In solo, projects with Karl Berger and Hans Burgener, as a member of Nick Didkovsky's band "Dr. Nerve" and a co-founder with Didkovsky & Hemingway of "Swim This", he has played in festivals and venues all over the world. An early Electronic Music composer, Lytle invented the set of totally unique methods of clarinet family sonic modulation and performance, called the “most radical of his generation” by Joachim Berendt. www.elewhale.net

ROBERT DICK – “A flutist whose technical resources and imagination seem limitless.” – New York Times. With deep roots in free improvisation, new jazz and classical music old and new, Robert Dick has established himself as an artist who has redefined the flute. He has utterly dispensed with preconceptions about what a flutist should sound like and what a flutist should play. He treats the flute as a human-powered synthesizer, his music going wherever his imagination and boundless chops flow to at any moment. Dick’s newest recording is “Flutes and Voices”, dous with baritone Thomas Buckner (Mutable Music17541-2). Dick has numerous solo recordings and has performed and recorded with New Winds, Tambastics, Oscura Luminosa, the Soldier String Quartet, the A.D.D. Trio, Paul Giger and Satoshi Takeishi, Jaron Lanier, Randy Raine-Reush and Barry Guy, Mari Kimura, Steve Gorn and many more of Europe and America's finest improvisors. Robert Dick (MM, Yale University) lives in New York City and teaches at NYU and the City University of NY Graduate Center. www.robertdick.net

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Elewhale Music Productions was founded by Michael Lytle in 1978. It is dedicated to producing quality contemporary improvised music in a "sound" oriented approach. That is; color and texture are as or more important than pitch and rhythm. Extended instrumental techniques are encouraged. ... more

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