Shift by Burke, Lewis, Grabowsky, Helias
The music on this CD is the result of four musicians with a background in jazz coming together to experiment and create music without the need for critical approval either from institutional oversight or industry-enforced norms and prerequisites. And because each is free to express himself as a collaborating individual without genre-based limitation, the music they create is ‘free’ music. As well as the analogue instruments, the music has input from the shapeshifted voice of the Ableton controller, a machine operated by George Lewis that records phrases and snippets of music in situ, digitally alters them and feeds them back into the music-making process, providing the musicians with another cue to which they can react. The music, as all music does, starts with an idea and the enthusiasm of the players to chase it, to play with it as well as to play it, to use their expertise and experience to de- and re-construct it, to improvise around it and eventually to reconcile it in a synthesis that satisfies them and gives the willing listener a new and exciting aural experience. This is music that liberates.
-Andrys Onsman
Tracklist
| 1. | Rob Burke, George Lewis, Paul Grabowsky, Mark Helisa - Shift | 5:54 |
| 2. | Move | 8:16 |
| 3. | Carry | 6:19 |
| 4. | Transfer | 6:11 |
| 5. | Transport | 5:10 |
| 6. | Convey | 6:01 |
| 7. | Relocate | 9:01 |
| 8. | Displace | 4:15 |
| 9. | Rearrange | 4:30 |
| 10. | Reposition | 5:15 |
| 11. | Modify | 5:57 |
Credits
Musicians
Rob Burke – Tenor and Soprano Saxophone
George Lewis – Trombone and Electronics
Paul Grabowsky – Piano and Snare Drum
Mark Helias – Acoustic Bass
1. Shift 5:54 Quartet
2. Move 8:16 Quartet
3. Carry 6:19 RB, GL,
4. Transfer 6:11 GL, MH
5. Transport 5:10 RB, GL, PG
6. Convey 6:01 RB, GL, PG
7. Relocate 9:01 GL, PG
8. Displace 4:15 RB, MH
9. Rearrange 4:30 Quartet
10. Reposition 5:15 Quartet
11. Modify 5:57 PG, MH
Recorded 26th July 2014
Eastside Sound Recording Studio – Lower Eastside – New York USA
Engineered: Marc Urselli
Mixed: April 14 2016, Mastered: Dec 2016 by Andrea Benassai
Sonoria Recording Plant, Prato Italy.
Produced by Robert Burke
Art work by Atia Cader
Special Thanks to: the musicians, Atia Cader, Yasmin Burke, Hanna Burke, Amali Burke – for inspiration and patience. To Monash University and the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music for the ‘research support’, Andrea Benassai for his tireless work and to Andrys Onsman for the wonderful discussions about what this all means.
©Robert Burke 2017
