The
Stowe-Pembleton Project
The Stowe-Pembleton Project CD Hommage An Klaus Kinski is out. This is improv jazz with heavy doses of post-fusion (Nobu Stowe) and sampled chaos (Lee). It's available from Soul Note/Black Saint as MP3 downloads. Hoorah!
The next record, Confusion Bleue, is slated for release on Soul Note/Black Saint in February or March of 2009.
The third record was recorded in late January 2008, and is currently being mixed. Nobu seems uncomfortable with calling it Ovarian Dystopia Your Vibrant Disease, so who knows what it will be titled.
Cuts from Hommage and Confusion can be found at the group's MySpace page. We'll have cuts from the new sessions going up here and at MySpace as I mix them.
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Stowe-Pembleton Project on Confusion Bleue is:
NOBU STOWE - Piano
Nobu Stowe was born in Maebashi, Gumma, Japan. He started taking piano
lessons at age 3 and composition at age 6. He moved to the US to study
Music (composition) and Psychology at the University of California, at
Berkeley. During this period, after discovering the music of Keith Jarrett,
he started to play/compose more improvisation-oriented music. Then, he
moved to Chicago to pursue graduate studies at the University of Chicago.
After receiving a Ph.D. in Psychology, he moved to Baltimore to work
as a drug researcher for the NIH. Since this relocation, Nobu has lead
the post-fusion unit TRIO
RICOCHET and, in less than a year since the trio's public debut,
has already appeared at some of the top jazz-oriented venues in the East
Coast including Blue Note N.Y. (NYC), The 55 Bar (NYC), The Knitting
Factory (NYC), Kavehaz (NYC), Bohemian Caverns (DC), Twins Jazz (DC)
and An die Musik (Baltimore).
Besides TRIO RICOCHET, Nobu leads and co-leads various projects exploring
and blending 'total-improvisation' (a la Jarrett) and 'free-improvisation'.
These include solo works and duos with Lee Pembleton, Alan Munshower,
Vytis Nivinskas, and Honyo Ohte.
Nobu has recently started a group with Perry Robinson in collaboration
with the renowned Italian composer-percussionist Andrea Centazzo and
the Pakistani tabla master Badal Roy. His fist recordings will soon be
available from Konnex Records (Germany), Soul Note (Italy) and ICTUS
Records (USA/Italy).
LEE PEMBLETON - Sound
Lee doesn't go in much for writing bios. But feel free to poke around
here in The Museum of Viral Memory.
featuring:
ROSS BONADONNA - Alto Sax, Bass Clarinet, Guitar
Ross Bonadonna was born in Brooklyn NY, he started playing guitar at
the age of seven, and studied privately with various teachers almost
continuously until the age of 32, while playing in numerous band and
doing commercial music for a living, at that time he opened Wombat Recording
Co. where he has engineered and produced many
projects. He currently plays with Eric Mingus, Ethan Winogrand, Paula
Carino, and quite a few other bands and projects in the studio and on
the road.
Tyler Goodwin - Double-Bass
Tyler Goodwin was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He started to play electric bass at the age of 14 and double-bass at the age of 16. He has studied jazz and classical music for 6 years under Tom Pietrycha, Roy Wiseman, Steve Lehman, and Paul Johnson (Baltimore Opera). After graduating from the Wesleyan University in Connecticut with a degree in Music, he moved to Baltimore to attend the Peabody Institute masters program to study classical double-bass. Tyler has performed with numerous jazz and rock groups (including Piece, Amphora, and the David Hanlon Trio) as well as various symphony and chamber orchestras on the East Coasts. This full schedule included an appearance at the Lincoln Center in NYC. Tyler has recorded with the Noah Baerman Trio, Sangita and Karaoke Superstars and has performed in both Singapore and France. Since receiving his M.A., he has performed with the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra (VA) and the Londontowne Symphony Orchestra (VA).
Ray Sage - Drums
Originally from Omaha, Nebraska, Ray Sage (a.k.a. raceage) has been active in N.Y. since late 1987. A versatile drummer with fire and imagination, Ray has performed with both rockers and free-improvisors alike, including Reverb Motherfuckers, Dogbowl, Marc Ribot, Ron Anderson, Adam Lane, Bonnie Kane and Charles Cohen. He has recorded with Reverb Motherfuckers, Dogbowl (4 albums on Shimmy Disc), Pak with Ron Anderson, as well as W.O.O., W.O.O. Revelator and Mambo Mantis with Bonnie Kane (numerouns indie releases) and has toured extensively the U.S., Europe and Japan. He is currently working with Siwula, Stowe & Sage Trio and a project with Adam Lane and Charles Cohen. With W.O.O. Mambo Mantis, he has just finished a very successful tour of Slovenia and Croatia.
Confusion Bleue will be released by Soul Note in early 2009. We are very excited to be releasing this follow-up to Hommage An Klaus Kinski on Soul Note. We've had nothing but great support from them.
No reviews yet, but, and this is probably completely unprofessional, one of The MVMs biggest heroes, John Zorn, heard the record and said he enjoyed the music very much. That's amongst the highest praise I can imagine to be quite honest. The MVM can't even begin to tell you how influential and inspirational John Zorn has been and is for us as artists and musicians.
Below are some of the tracks from Confusion Bleue for you to enjoy:
Introduzione
Interlude 1
Epilogo
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