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Pail Bug gen 18

PAIL BUG is the initial document from this improvising unit with an advanced proposal of group construction. Featuring four composer/improvisers each on the forefront of contemporary musical discourse: Dietrich Eichmann (piano), John Hughes (double bass) Astrid Weins (double bass) & Jeff Arnal (percussion). PAIL BUG compositions are built from extreme magnification of small sounds and gestures, a new lens on European improvisation tradition via extensive historical lineage; Eichmann was a student of Schlippenbach and Weins worked extensively with Peter Kowald. Arnal, for his part, is the sole U.S. based participant and his studies with Milford Graves reinforce a muscular angularity in the temporal structure of the material. The comprehensive schematic that emerges comes from discreet musical construction paired with layers of interlocking rhythms, each instrument creating singular elements contributing to a wholly effected, sculptural group conception. Extended technique provides the source for microscopic textures and within these textures internal rhythms appear; the group uses the emerging complexity of these pulses superimposed against one another. Emphasis is also placed on the individual silence resulting in the emergence of various breakdowns into knotted duos and trios which mass back into the generated pause underpinning a collective understanding of real-time orchestration. The compositional framework produces an outcome rich in expanded understanding of nuance and gesture, liquidity over solidity, reimagined instrumental potential and architectural possibilty/capability.

Personnel

Dietrich Eichmann - piano
John Hughes - double bass
Astrid Weins - double bass
Jeff Arnal - percussion

Track Listing

1. First Pail          8:28
2. Second Pail  13:19
3. Third Pail         11:48
4. Fourth Pail      6:16
5. Fifth Pail          7:06

Fifth Pail excerpt

Format: CD ecopak
Release date: 2011
Recorded on December 19, 2009 at Vivaldisaal, Berlin
Mastered by Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson
Design by Anthony Levin-Decanini & Darian Stansbury

Available Now!

• Online at Squidco
• Online in Europe at Oaksmus
• in NYC & online at Downtown Music Gallery

Selected Press

"Although piano, drums and two acoustic bassists is an unusual line-up, this quartet is quite well-balanced with an ample amount of space and exploration for each musician involved.. The interaction between all four members of this quartet is especially intense and often riveting." Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery "Third Pail sees the quartet explore their chemistry through improv that feels a bit downtown NYC, if that makes sense; think minimal, but a bit more adventurous in idiosyncratic ways to approach extended technique and their instruments' interplay.. it's evident that the group has an innate sense of where the improv should flow to." Derek Morton, Furthernoise

Links

John Hughes
EIchmann / Arnal duo - pdf
Live in Hamburg: Eichmann / Arnal 2007 LP
www.dietrich-eichmann.de
www.generaterecords.net/JeffArnal.htm

For more information contact: jeff [at] generaterecords [dot] net