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1.
Dual Resonance I 02:53
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Axial Current 04:44
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Viscous Matter 01:51
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Dark Matter 03:40
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String Theory 03:15
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Dual Resonance II 02:22
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Discursive Matter 04:24
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Torus Knot 03:28
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Balanced State 06:45
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Manifold Runners 03:47
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Circulatory Statis 02:08
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Tomorrow's Question 01:47
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Free Anomaly 02:56
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Dual Resonance III 04:08
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Glass Agitprop 02:01
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Cylindrical Matrix 01:33
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Lunar Cycle 06:31
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Dual-Energy X-Ray 07:05
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Hans Fjellestad - analogue synthesizer and piano
Peter Kowald - contrabass
Dana Reason - piano
Jason Robinson - tenor saxophone and electronics

www.hansfjellestad.com
www.danareason.com
www.jasonrobinson.com

Liner notes:

When the news of Peter Kowald's sudden and unexpected passing reached California (September 2002), many musicians from San Francisco to San Diego were shocked. In April of 2000, the vibrant, tireless, and extremely influential bassist came to California as part of his tour of the United States, reworking older musical partnerships and striking up new collaborations virtually everywhere he went. The story of his tour is told in a remarkable way in Off the Road: Peter Kowald Touring the U.S. in 2000, a documentary film by Laurence Petit-Jouvet. Beginning in New York, and forging a path through the American South to the West Coast, and then through the Midwest to return to New York, Petit-Jouvet documented Kowald in one collaborative context to the next. A particularly poignant moment is when Kowald, while standing in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia, candidly asks African-American passersby about the contemporary significance of Dr. King's accomplishments for equality. His spontaneous interviewees seem taken aback by his forthright questions, but intrigued by his German accent. This scene helps shape the overall structure of the documentary, which begins with Kowald explaining that his tour was a return to his earliest musical influences, to the context, people and social milieu that gave birth to "Black American music." So the sight of a German bassist standing on a street corner in Atlanta asking people about the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr. is, indeed, bursting at the seams with intended meaning.

Peter came to San Diego through a variety of connections. Bay Area bassist Damon Smith was a key element to Peter's time in California - he spread the word of the tour and contacted Dana Reason to help setup a San Diego concert. In addition, trombonist George Lewis and bassist Bertram Turetsky, both residents of San Diego and professors at the University of California, San Diego, provided further incentive for Peter to make a stop in San Diego. Dana organized a concert at the Galoka Jazz Scene, which featured Peter in a variety of duets with local improvisers, including the musicians on this album and George Lewis (see Petit-Jouvet's film for a clip of Lewis' duet). Dana also proposed a recording session, and invited Hans Fjellestad and myself to participate.

About half of the tracks on this album come from this impromptu, unscripted meeting. In the two years that followed the recording session, plans were developed to release the music on an album composed of duos, trios and quartets from the session. When we heard of Peter's passing, the recording suddenly took on different meaning. Rather than releasing a "tribute" album or simply the material we had recorded that day, we decided to record more as a trio, with modified instrumentation, and to mix the original tracks with a more current and different representation of our individual work. This helps to frame the original session in the context of Peter's enduring influence in our music - a "living tribute," a before and after shot of three Californian improvisers. In other words, Peter's presence resonates in all of the music on this album.

Jason Robinson

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released February 10, 2023

Produced by Jason Robinson and Circumvention Music.
Tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, and 17 recorded on April 14, 2000 in La Jolla, California.
Tracks 2, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16, and 18 recorded on January 1, 2003 in La Jolla, California.
Mixed and mastered as Zu Casa Laboratories, San Diego, California.
Cover art and graphic design by Andrew West.

Special thanks to: Laurence Petit-Jouvet, all of the musicians that helped coordinate Peter's tour in 2000, our families, and the Trummerflora Collective.

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The music of American saxophonist and scholar Jason Robinson ("rugged and scintillating," New York Times) thrives in the fertile overlaps between improvisation and composition, acoustic music and electronics, tradition and experimentalism.

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