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Tandem

by Jason Robinson

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Now and Here (With Anthony Davis) 03:32
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A Song for Tomorrow (With Stephanie Johnson and Peter Kowald) 01:48
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Hogs & Swine (With George Lewis) 05:19
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Same Old Station (SOS) (With Marcelo Radulovich) 03:54
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C. T. (With Anthony Davis) 19:33
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Discrete Jungle (With Marcelo Radulovich) 07:00
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Dark Matter (With Peter Kowald) 03:38
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In The Tradition (With Nathan Hubbard) 05:22
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Birdrock Dub (With Michael Dessen) 02:48
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Telepatheomatic (With Hans Fjellestad) 06:49
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Tea With George (With George Lewis) 04:30
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Sblat (With Stephanie Johnson) 04:51
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Black Market Higgle (With Hans Fjellestad) 05:37
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Tbone For Two (With Michael Dessen) 05:03
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Note: Only available in digital download. First pressing (CD) out of print.

This recording attempts to prove a modest point - that the "duo" is a floating signifier, a word without a fixed meaning. Traditionally, the word is used to describe a piece with two performers. This is certainly the case on a number of tracks contained here, but there is more to it. Perhaps because of my predilection to improvisation, I conceptualize the "duo" as a process rather than an object. Each piece is a search, a navigation through the dialogic space of negotiation, interaction and meaning. This recording also illustrates recent interests in my musical explorations. Through the use of sampling, electronics, and (re)composition, new identities emerge that go beyond standard notions of the performer. One of the main challenges faced by the performers was the real-time negotiation of these emergent identities.

Needless to say, multiple notions of the "duo" are at the bottom of this recording. "Tandem" does more that suggest this in a strange and roundabout manner - it's meant to imply togetherness and collaboration. Most of the music presented here is improvised, and the few "composed" pieces (Birdrock Dub, Sblat and C.T.) rely heavily upon improvisation. I am indebted to the performers - who contributed their unique musical personalities to this project.

-Jason Robinson

credits

released September 17, 2002

Jason Robinson - tenor and alto saxophones, flute, clarinet, live electronics
George Lewis - trombone
Anthony Davis - piano
Peter Kowald - contra bass
Michael Dessen - trombone
Nathan Hubbard - percussion, live electronics
Hans Fjellestad - analog synthesizers
Marcelo Radulovich - guitar, samples, electronics
Stephanie Johnson - electronics

Produced by Jason Robinson and Circumvention Music

www.jasonrobinson.com

Mixed and mastered at Zu Casa Laboratories by Hans Fjellestad and Jason Robinson

Graphics: Marcelo Radulovich

Photography: Stephanie Johnson

C.T., Now and Here: recorded 9/18/01 at Proxy Music Productions. Engineered by Keith Gretlein.

Birdrock Dub, Tbone for Two: recorded 7/31/01 at Accretions. Engineered by Hans Fjellestad.

Telepatheomatic, Black Market Higgle: recorded 7/10/01 at Accretions. Engineered by Hans Fjellestad.

Discrete Jungle, Same Old Station (SOS): recorded 8/7/01 at Titicacaman Studios. Engineered by Marcelo Radulovich.

Dark Matter: recorded 7/25/00 at Erickson Hall, University of California, San Diego. Engineered by Hans Fjellestad.

Sblat: samples taken from Robinson's "For Nonaah's Alto" recorded 5/29/01 at Warren Studio A, University of California, San Diego. Engineered by Stephanie Johnson.

A Song for Tomorrow: samples taken from Kowald/Robinson duo recorded 7/25/00 at Erickson Hall, University of California, San Diego. Engineered by Hans Fjellestad.

In the Tradition: recorded 8/8/01 at San Diego State University. Engineered by Nathan Hubbard.

Hogs & Swine, Tea with Geogre: recorded 11/9/01 at University Lutheran Church, La Jolla, California. Engineered by Stephanie Johnson.

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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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