Staring at the Sun, by Cosmologic (Jason Robinson, Michael Dessen, Scott Walton, Nathan Hubbard)

Staring at the Sun

by Cosmologic (Jason Robinson, Michael Dessen, Scott Walton, Nathan Hubbard)

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1.	Mountains and Waters 05:40	info	buy track
2.	C.T. 09:23	info	buy track
3.	Hell in Hat Yai 09:29	info	buy track
4.	Nomad Land 12:58	info	buy track
5.	Shrouded Over With Fog (As If the World Were About to End) 08:35	info	buy track
6.	Staring at the Sun (For Archer) 08:39	info	buy track
7.	Prayer, Faith in Humanity 06:16	info	buy track

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Cosmologic:

Jason Robinson - tenor saxophone, Bb clarinet, percussion
Michael Dessen - trombone, percussion
Scott Walton - acoustic bass
Nathan Hubbard - drumkit, marimba, toy glockenspiel, percussion
with Al Scholl - electric and acoustic guitars

Recorded live in 2000 after a half-year stretch of weekly gigs, Cosmologic's debut album captures the "intense peaks of clamorous excitement" and "near-spiritual communication" (Cadence Magazine) that has remained the band's hallmark ever since. With all original compositions that traverse the broad terrain of creative jazz and improvised music, Cosmologic weaves together high-energy playing, intense introspection, rich grooves, open textures, and collective alchemy. In praise of this debut, Coda Magazine writes that "with motivated and talented young musicians of this calibre, there's no doubt that jazz can be a creative force. Long gone are the days when things West Coast were considered pallid in relation to anything East Coast, and for any of the doubters out there, here's the proof positive."

...this unit bumps and grinds from all sides... Long gone are the days when things West Coast were considered pallid in relation to anything East Coast, and for any of the doubters out there, here's the proof positive.
- Coda Magazine, Marc Chenard

With motivated and talented young musicians of this calibre, there's no doubt that jazz can be a creative force. Long gone are the days when things West Coast were considered pallid in relation to anything East Coast, and for any of the doubters out there, here's the proof positive.
-Coda Magazine, Marc Chenard

Intense peaks of clamorous excitement... Near-spiritual communication... The group dynamics of Cosmologic are in full effect, and the music is commanding. As a unit, these four musicians click.
-Cadence Magazine, Frank Rubilino

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released January 1, 2000

Produced by Michael Dessen, Nathan Hubbard, Jason Robinson and Scott Walton

Recorded live on February 24, 2000 at Galoka Jazz Scene, La Jolla, California

Engineered by Joe Kucera

Mixed and mastered at Warren Studios, La Jolla, CA, March 22 and 23, 2000, by Joe Kucera, Michael Dessen, Nathan Hubbard, Jason Robinson and Scott Walton

Cover art: "Rivière" by Sophie Plassard
Photography by Melissa A. Schweisguth
Layout by Joshua Staples

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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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