Adam Minkoff - electric bass Michael Eaton - tenor saxophone Todd Caldwell - organ Al Street - guitar Bill Campbell - drums
Individuation Quartet plus 2 more bands:
Michael Eaton - saxophones Roberta Piket - piano Daniel Ori - bass Shareef Taher - drums
New music composed in a twelve tone or mostly twelve tone idiom.
Free improvisations and compositions by Cheryl Pyle and Michael Eaton.
Cheryl Pyle - C flute, alto flute, bass flute, piccolo Michael Eaton - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Cheryl Pyle - C flute / alto flute / piccolo / bass flute Michael Eaton - soprano sax Judi Silvano - voice Haruna Fukazawa - C flute / alto flute Gene Coleman - bass flute / piccolo Claire de Brunner - bassoon
Music of Thelonious Monk with:
Michael Eaton - tenor saxophone Isaiah Petrie - vibraphone Ben Tervort - bass Jade Harvey - drums
Cheryl Pyle - C flute / alto flute Michael Eaton - soprano sax Judi Silvano - voice Haruna Fukazawa - C flute / alto flute Gene Coleman- bass flute / piccolo Claire de Brunner - bassoon
Cheryl Pyle - C flute /alto flute Haruna Fukazawa- C flute/alto flute Michael Eaton - soprano sax Gene Coleman - bass flute / piccolo Claire de Brunner -bassoon Shu Odamura - guitar
Cheryl Pyle - flutes Haruna Fukazawa - flutes Michael Eaton - saxes Judi Silvano - vocals Gene Coleman - flutes Claire de Brunner - bassoon
Cheryl Pyle - flutes Michael Eaton- saxes Haruna Fukazawa - flutes Gene Coleman- flutes Claire de Brunner - bassoon
Individuation at Rockwood 1: October 27, 2022 (full concert)
Bloomington Writer's Guild Miniset: Ruby My Dear (T. Monk) and Venus (J. Coltrane)
September 25: An addendum/correction to Plastic Sax's review of Ghost Tantras
There are some representations of authorship and personnel in the review of Ghost Tantras that I'd like to address.
Mother Brain Records is a record label co-founded by Seth Andrew Davis and me. It is based in Kansas City, Missouri. As Mother Brain, we organized and supervised the recording of "Ghost Tantras" in June 2021 and then commercially released it on April 1, 2022.
Mother Brain seeks to cultivate and document musical culture in improvisation, composition, electronics, and new music). We especially highlight artists from the greater Midwest area. Our first recording was released in May 2020, and to date we have 26 recordings available.
"Ghost Tantras" was not released by EMAS (Extemporaneous Music and Art Society), and the album is not affiliated with or sponsored by EMAS. Although EMAS has a collaborative "imprint" with Mother Brain Records called Extempore, Mother Brain and EMAS are separate commercial entities.
Seth Davis is the only member of EMAS present on "Ghost Tantras"; 3 out of the 4 performers on "Ghost Tantras" are not in EMAS. EMAS is cited three times in the review, but Mother Brain is not mentioned at all. Of the five hyperlinks to various parties included in the blog's review, none of them directs to Mother Brain's website as of this writing.
This is highly unusual. A reader who is not familiar with the performers, labels, or their respective activities on the Kansas City music scene might come away from the Plastic Sax review thinking "Ghost Tantras" was performed and released by EMAS. Although Mother Brain's objective is to sustain and develop improvised and new music, and while we do support the works and activity of EMAS as a whole, the historical record needs to the be presented accurately.
I salute and extend my respect and well wishes to the artists of EMAS, who are doing strong and forward thinking work in the Kansas City area to perform, promote, and curate improvised and new music.
Out now! Second Nature on Mother Brain Records
Second Nature Ensemble's recorded debut is out now on Mother Brain Records. Seth Andrew Davis and I started the electroacoustic group five years ago and used it as to draw upon and fuse a number of our musical interests: American and European free improvisation, Second Viennese atonal composition, the American experimental tradition, graphic scores and notation, jazz, and electronic music. This is our first studio recording made in December 2020. We hope this document album makes a contribution to the new wave of contemporary improvisation and composition happening in Kansas City.
I want to give a special mention to artist Andrea Cukier for allowing us to use her striking work, Broken Forest, on our album cover. Also thank you to Heather Basile for her beautiful design.