New X: Trios & Duets [Explicit Lyrics]
Track Listings
| 1. Sweet Suite |
| 2. Always Remains the Same |
| 3. Say That You Will |
| 4. False Profits |
| 5. X-Ray Glasses |
| 6. Vibratory Jam |
| 7. Reduce/Reuse Mantra |
| 8. German Train |
Editorial Reviews
From the Artist
The New X base at the eXperimental Art Research Terminal (XART) is a workshop and laboratory where most anything goes. It remains a haven to freely refine musical ideas and - at times - even noise. Its intent is a refuge where no one is held in jeopardy for any sounds created during the weekly sessions.
Pushing, than steaming, the envelope gave New X a reputation as the region's most bothersome variety band. Weary of just bothering the locals, they've taken their restless nature and "art as life" tours into formal spaces from Los Angeles, New Orleans and Minneapolis to the informality of Mississippi River Islands, street corners and the kilns of Death Valley. New X was quickly hailed as Death Valley's most bothersome band. The New X attitude is a genuine respect for the past and the cross-cultural mix of melody and rhythm from far-off continents that became jazz in the freedom of the American melting pot. Their sound is more about vision and texture than virtuosity for its own sake. The players are not musical morticians embalming jazz, but new traditionalists. They shun stereotypes and abandon the crutches of keys, meters and charts to honor improvisation and an eclectic style. New X is best when performance, poetry and compositions segue into free form improvisation and back again. Polyphonic tones battle and vie for prominence contrasted by sweet strains in a cultural clash, but always with respect and attention to individual voices and the overall mix.
Product Description
The New X Art Ensemble featuring the Amazing Tess Toster Tones is hard to describe. They're a free form big band known for odd instrumentation and experimentation with a debt to jazz, blues, and classical traditions. "Trios & Duets", was named for their penchant to subdivide as band members go on breaks. It's first track capitalizes on several of those possible incarnations in a carefully orchestrated 23 minute improvisation, "Sweet Suite". The twelve players flowed in and out of various small units and back to the big band.
An eclectic blend of free jazz rapped around words and odd tones follows. "Always Remains the Same" explores the human condition with soulful folk blues. "Say That You Will" (But I know that you won't) tackles relationships with a super funk bass line, all chilled out vibraphone and Amazing Tess Toster Tone horns. "False Profits" (with colorful speeches gathering congregations of flouescent leeches) reflects the horrors of war. Funk again from "X-Ray Glasses" (dipped in Molasses; sweet young lasses with noxious gasses) in the Captain Beefheart tradition. "Vibratory Jam" explodes with a soprano/tenor saxophone duel. Then "Reduce/Reuse", cries out for the planet - and finally, "German Train", brings us home with a relentless, almost-punk anthem.
It's an honest effort with no overdubbing or cheap tricks. Years of weekly free jazz in an isolated Art Works USA farm house set the tone for these one-take recording sessions with:
Kevin Brady: bass; Kelly Coyle: guitar; Billy X. Curmano: lead vocals, dulcimer, mbira and vibraphone; James B. Quick Degnan: trumpet, bass trumpet and fluglehorn; Andrew Foss: bass; Pete Hansen: flute; D.L. Hunt: French horn, Fender Rhodes and bass; Jeanie Martini: vocals extraordinaire; Scott Olson: theramin; John C. Paulson: soprano saxophone; Steve Smith: dijjeridu and tenor saxophone and Frank Utecht: trap drums.
New X: Trios & Duets [Explicit Lyrics]
New X: Trios & Duets,New X Art Ensemble,XART Audio,Pushing, then steaming the envelope gave New X and these dozen players a reputation as the area's most bothersome variety band with a heady mix of classical, free jazz, folk blues, funk, rock, biting lyrics and an extremely alternative edge.
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