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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Comes in an eco-wallet record style cover. Digital Album & Compact Disc contain 6 full tracks for a total of 41:35 minutes.
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When the Covid-19 pandemic hit New York City in winter 2020, one of the profound effects on the music scene was that many musicians left the city, to return to their respective countries, states, and cities. With the slow re-opening of NYC in summer 2021, musicians from throughout the United States, and the world, began trickling back into Brooklyn.
Within this context, bassist Thomas Helton reached out to me with plans to travel from his home city Houston, to Brooklyn. A recording session was in the offing, and of course, Sandy Ewen, an erstwhile Texan who had herself recently returned to Brooklyn, was the perfect foil for Helton's wistful, searching bass.
Comrade Hertenstein was on everyone's mind to fill the drum seat. Although Joe had decamped to his apartment in Berlin during Covid lockdown, the fates were kind, and he found his way to Brooklyn in time for the session.
Much like salmon finding their way back upstream to their ancestral breeding grounds, we all found our way back to our creative ground in NYC for this extraordinary recording.
Brooklyn, crossroads of the world!
-Stephen Gauci
Digital Album & Compact Disc contain 6 full tracks for a total of 41:35 minutes.
credits
released July 29, 2022
Stephen Gauci - tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet
Sandy Ewen - guitar
Thomas Helton - bass
Joe Hertenstein - drums
Recorded by Rene Allain at Scholes Street Studio on 5/27/21
Mixed & Mastered by Michael Coleman
Produced by Stephen Gauci
Photos by Rene Allain
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This is tremendous stuff, one of my favorite albums of the year thus far. While I'm familiar with the work of Lopez and Cleaver and they are as usual excellent here, it is the work of Baczkowski that lifts this from being very good to being a year-end list calibre album. Fiery, propulsive musicianship with tremendous communication between the musicians.
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A very interesting album. At a few places I keep asking myself: Was this composed by Arnold Schönberg (or his disciples)? Anyway, I'm all for skilled musicians exploring the boundary (if one exists) between jazz and classical. Thumbs up! jyrki63
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Greetings! We remember being mesmerized by this song in the Bimhuis Amsterdam a year ago!! Hope to see you at the Fridman gallery next Thursday.. Thank you big hugs (track is called ‘The Slip’) Kanipchen-Fit
Trumpeter/composer Ashley Ballat and jazz guitarist Stephen Magnusson create warm and imaginative sonic landscapes. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 23, 2022
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Amazing album! Such high energy avant guard jazz. Great interplay between the musicians and Mette’s solo in the beginning of track 2 is mind blowing. So many different sounds. Really great. torzano