Monkulations by Elliott Sharp

In 2003, Sharp recorded "Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!", an album of interpretations of compositions by Thelonious Monk performed on acoustic guitar. The record was released by the Clean Feed label in 2006 to widespread surprise and acclaim (not to mention some disdain!) Over the next few years, Sharp toured the Monk set alongside his Terraplane band and other projects. This performance was recorded at the club MIles Smiles in Vienna, Austria in November 2007 and is now presented freshly mixed and mastered.

Elliott Sharp: composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, author, leads Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics and Terraplane with compositional strategies including fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors as well as new techniques for graphic notation to yield work that catalyzes a synesthetic approach to musicmaking as well as functioning as retinal art.