Combining material from "Everybody's Gone" and new tracks "Drowned", "Echoes", and "Ghost Howls", avant trumpeter Forbes Graham's newest release "I Won't Stop" successfully traverses many genres. Modern improvisation meets noise, glitchy electronics, noise, and more on this cd.
Forbes Graham - I Won't Stop
Tatsuya Nakatani/Forbes Graham - Essences
A recording of a meeting between trumpet player Forbes Graham and percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani, Essences is shamanic, ceremonial, and yet urgent. Nakatani is practically orchestral on this disc, wielding an arsenal of bells, bowls, and gongs. Graham switches between trumpet and piccolo trumpet, although most would be hard pressed to tell which he is playing. Starting off in a meditative, sonorous state and building to a pattering panoply of rhythms, Essences is an exploration of the folding and unfolding of mysteries and secrets.
Laurence Cook/Jim Hobbs - tragedies of love
A meeting between two highly regarded underground Boston based improvisers. tragedies of love is a delicate mystical brew that bubbles into explosive moments through a careful alchemical process. It was recorded live at Outpost 186 in March 2009.