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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I'm super excited about this album, even though I haven't had time to mix it properly. For now, I do want to share mp3s of the first mix:
return
sense
release
limit
moor
vet
obi_wan
discontent
how can i return
ovarian dystopia
Stowe-Pembleton Project on Ovarian Dystopia Your Vibrant Disease 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:
TAHA BELAL - Field Recordings
Taha was born in Cairo, Egypt. He met Lee Pembleton at the California
College of the Arts where they are both studying. A day before Taha
was to leave for Cairo for a couple weeks him and Lee met at a bar.
The sound of Cairo was brought up and Lee asked if Taha would be
willing to make some recordings. Taha expressed his interest and
delight and had attempted to do so before but with disappointing
results. Lee generously offered to loan his recording equipment to
Taha for the trip. Taha proceeded to make recordings in various
situations including car rides, the television, a wedding and walking
around downtown.
JASON BIVINS - Electric Guitar
Jason Bivins is from Washington, D.C. After playing in “rock” bands
throughout high school and at Oberlin College (usually some amalgam of
post-punk, metal, and prog), he went to graduate school at Indiana
University, where he became active in free improvisation beginning in
1993. After playing in large ensembles, power trios, electroacoustic duos,
and in solo performance, he formed the Jason Bivins Trio (which, though
never properly recorded, was a long-standing unit featuring his own tunes)
and, in 1999, Unstable Ensemble (which continues to exist and has recorded
four albums). After moving to North Carolina in 2000 (where he teaches
Religious Studies at North Carolina State University), Bivins began a
long-standing association with percussionist Ian Davis, with whom he
performs in a duo, in large ensembles (the defunct Micro-East Collective and the eNtet, units which performed with musicians like Dennis Gonzalez,
Frank Gratkowski, and Chris Cutler, among others), and in the
long-standing groups UE and the Impermanence Trio (with Richmond-based
reeds player Jimmy Ghaphery). He continues to tour semi-regularly –
playing in venues as far-flung as skate parks, pastures, and art galleries – and to perform and record with his regular ensembles and others.
ROSS BONADONNA - Alto Sax, Baritone Sax, Guitar, Nord, Percussion
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.
No reviews, as the records not only unreleased but unmixed. However, below are some pix from the session. There are more at flickr. All these photos were taken by my friend Ri-cian.
Also, here's a totally raw mp3, pretty much unmixed, just bounced right out of protools.
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