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Selected press
"inventive improvisations" Allan Kozinn, New York Times

"One of the best improv trio dates I've heard in recent memory."
Bruce Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery, NYC

"... a creative Music work well worth investigating." John Kelman, All About Jazz

" This New York City-based jazz/improvising trio emerges as a cohesive unit,
meshing superior technical ability with extreme imaginative powers."
Glenn Astarita, Jazz Review

Biographies

SETH MISTERKA began his musical activity in the underground scene of Western Massachusetts, releasing intricately packaged cassettes of electronic noise. He began playing saxophone and working with computer music as a philosophy student at Wesleyan University, where he became part of the vibrant musical community under the mentorship of Anthony Braxton. Misterka toured throughout Europe as a member of Braxton's Ghost Trance Ensemble. After relocating to New York, Misterka began organizing and performing solo concerts as well as leading his own bands, including Seth Misterka and the Misterka Clones, The Demon, and Dynasty. Currently, Misterka resides in his Brooklyn studio where he hosts recording sessions and concerts. For more information on Seth Misterka please visit www.newsonic.com

Pianist, composer and improviser GORDON BEEFERMAN has performed in a variety of contexts, from concerto soloist to free improviser, and his compositions, for voice, piano, and orchestra, have been heard in concert halls throughout the US. A "fully liberated pianist" (Cadence Magazine), Beeferman has recently performed at Music at the Anthology, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, San Francisco Alternative Music Festival, and the Merce Cunningham Studio. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan where he studied composition and piano. Recognition for his work has included multiple awards from BMI and ASCAP, various grants and commissions, and a Tanglewood fellowship. He lives in New York City where he continues to compose and perform. For more information on Gordon Beeferman please visit www.gordon.inkbox.org

"Percussionist Jeff Arnal's balletic sense of time and imaginative deployment of colour have combined into a highly original concept" Philip Clark, The Wire. Arnal frequently performs and collaborates with a wide range of musicians and choreographers in the U.S. and Europe. He can be heard on a number of independent record labels; recent releases include Dog Day with Aaron Dugan (C3R 2007), Rogue States with Gordon Beeferman (Generate 2006), Transit (Clean Feed 2005), Tripwire (Creative Sources 2006) and Live in Hamburg with Dietrich Eichmann (Broken Research 2007). Currently Jeff lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife, choreographer Estelle Woodward and their son Thomas.