Rogue States  GEN 11
Gordon Beeferman - piano
Jeff Arnal - percussion

1. Split Screen (5:49)
2. To Draw Us Near (5:55)
3. Limb From Limb (4:15)
4. Oh It’s You (1:14)
5. Pirouette on a Pin (1:25)
6. Three-Wheeled Ride (4:46)
7. Sanctum (3:27)
8. Auuk (9:59)
9. Whirler-Wanderer (3:12)
10. In White Haze (1:29)
11. Terra Infirma (5:55)
12. Rift and Resonance (3:50)
13. Enemy Static (3:43)

All compositions were created in the moment by Arnal and Beeferman (ASCAP/BMI).

Recorded April 22 and June 9, 2005 at Wombat Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Mixed and mastered at Newsonic, Brooklyn, by Seth Misterka
© 2005 by Jeff Arnal and Gordon Beeferman. All rights reserved.

ROGUE STATES is now available!
• in NYC at Downtown Music Gallery, 342 Bowery between E2 & E3 St, NYC (212) 473-0043;
• Online at www.CDBaby.com/jeffgordon2

Arnal and Beeferman will be performing Friday, October 6, at 8:30pm, at ROULETTE, 20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St), New York NY (www.roulette.org)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10, members free. Tickets: 212.219.8242

To listen to excerpts from ROGUE STATES, visit: http://gordon.inkbox.org/roguestates.html

Other concerts are coming up - for more information, visit www.generaterecords.net
Sept. 21, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Sept. 22, Music Gallery, Toronto
Sept. 23, Revolution Underground, Syracuse NY

Jeff Arnal (percussion) and Gordon Beeferman (piano) synthesize avant-garde jazz/improv and contemporary classical traditions of the 20th century into a unique “energized ritual of free expression…music with muscle and appeal” (Cadence Magazine). Since forming their duo in 2000, Arnal and Beeferman have become an integral part of the creative music scene in New York and beyond. Their duo has performed at the Knitting Factory, Music at the Anthology, Improvised and Otherwise (Brooklyn), San Francisco Alternative Music Festival, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the Tremont Theater and Zeitgeist Gallery (Boston/Cambridge), and other venues for experimental and improvised music. Their first recording Bodies of Water (2001) was praised for its "near-perfect synchronicity... these two have talent to burn" (All Music Guide). In addition to working as a duet, they have collaborated with many other musicians and dancers, including choreographer Estelle Woodward (in the dance/music ensemble Loophole) and saxophonist Seth Misterka (as Rara Avis).

ARTIST BIOS

GORDON BEEFERMAN, pianist-composer, moves easily across the boundaries between composition, interpretation and improvisation. His works -- orchestral, solo, chamber, and opera -- have been been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, Albany Symphony, pianist Winston Choi, soprano Lisa Bielawa, NYC-based Anti-Social Music and many others. The Chicago Tribune praised Beeferman for his “masterly orchestral craftmanship… odd, refreshing sonorities and expressive speech.” A “fully liberated pianist” (Cadence Magazine), Beeferman has performed in a wide range of settings, from concerto soloist to free-improviser, and has collaborated regularly with choreographers, writers, and other artists. In New York he has performed at Roulette, the Merce Cunningham Studio, Music at the Anthology, Columbia University’s Italian Academy and the Improvised and Otherwise Festival, as well as at other venues in Boston, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.

"Percussionist Jeff Arnal's balletic sense of time and imaginative deployment of colour have combined into a highly original concept" (the Wire). Arnal frequently performs and collaborates with a wide range of musicians and choreographers in the U.S. and Europe. He studied music at Bennington College receiving his MFA in 2000. A native of Georgia, Arnal moved to Baltimore, MD in 1991 to attend the Peabody Conservatory and later study composition with Stuart Saunders Smith. In 1994 he began making experimental films at the University of Maryland receiving his BA in Interdisciplinary Studies. He has received grants and fellowships from Meet the Composer and Art Omi International. Jeff can be heard on a number of independent record labels; recent releases include Rogue States with Gordon Beeferman (Generate 2006), Transit (Clean Feed 2005), Tripwire (Creative Sources 2006) and a duo with Dietrich Eichmann (Leo 2004, Broken Research 2007). Currently Jeff lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife, choreographer Estelle Woodward and their son Thomas.

For more info please visit Gordon at www.gordon.inkbox.org or Jeff at www.generaterecords.net/JeffArnal.html