01 May

[ May the 5th, 2023 release via Pyroclastic Records: Mark Dresser – Tines of Change ]

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Tines of Change, due out May 5, 2023 via Pyroclastic Records, features custom-designed 4- and 5-string basses with fingerboard-embedded pickups and a set of metal tines that offer stunning new possibilities that Dresser vividly explores

“[Mark Dresser is] a bassist who is one of the great instrumental forces in recent American jazz outside the mainstream.” – Ben Ratliff, The New York Times

” Dresser uses the bow like Picasso used the brush: to refract and recast certain realities and to create completely new ones.” – Robert Bush, San Diego Reader

17 Nov

[ November the 26th,2021 release via Pyroclastic Records: Sara Schoenbeck – DUOs debut ]

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release date: 26.11.2021 via Pyroclastic Records

Bassoonist Sara Schoenbeck engages in adventurous dialogues with some of creative music’s most inventive voices on her new self-titled album

“Sara Schoenbeck [is] one of the only bassoon practitioners to truly and successfully fold the instrument’s sound into the realm of chamber jazz.” – Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz

“Schoenbeck demonstrates the full sonic palette of the modern bassoon as a classical instrument that feels at home in many musical arenas.” – Eyal Hareuveni, The Free Jazz Collective

Throughout her career, Sara Schoenbeck has dedicated herself to discovering, exploring and expanding the role of the bassoon in contemporary composition and improvised music. Key to that development has been the relationships she’s forged with her fellow musical innovators. On her new self-titled album, Schoenbeck reconnects with several of her most intrepid collaborators – peers, mentors, inspirations and even family – for an adventurous and captivating set of dialogues.

03 Nov

[ IMPORTANT(please share) !!! DEEP TONES FOR PEACE presents DEEP TONES FOR CHANGE – A RELAY FOR PEACE ]

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With the election so close, the division so fractious and potentially explosive, we feel a special event is needed for the public on Election Day. On November 3, Deep Tones for Change will transmit 4 performances each hour, spanning the 17 hours that US polls are open nationwide, from the East Coast to Hawaii – 68 individual performances!

24 Apr

[ April 24th self -release via Bandcamp: Mark Dresser & Mark Helias – the Marks Brothers ]

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release date: 24.04.2020 on bandcamp

This is not a secret here for those who are reading my reviews and articles for a while, or know my taste for the doble bass music, that if there is anything new about that subject I gotta know it sooner rather than later. In that case it is definitely later , I would say that it is even pretty damn late, as this material had been recorded in 2000 and this news via bandcamp subscription came to me daily like to all of you and to say it at least: Took Me by Surprise, but what a wonderful surprise is that: Mark Dresser & Mark Helias, two of the bassists I simply admire, together making sweet and gob-smacking recording under funky cinematic joke a like title: The Marks Brothers. Please follow an excellent Bill Showmaker essay on that session written at the date but freshly discovered by myself today. What a Real blast from the Past it is!