Ceremonies Out of the Air
Keir Neuringer - saxophone

Available on CD & gatefold double LP from New Atlantis Records
Release date 4/22/14

Composed in performance on August 23, 2013 at First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia
Recorded & mixed by Eugene Lew
Mastered by Kato Hideki
Album art by Erin Rice
Designed by Erin Rice & Keir Neuringer
Produced by Keir Neuringer
With help from & thanks to Brit Campese
To the memory of Esther Neuringer (1947-2013)

i dreamt there was nothing wrong with my chemistry

Kristina Dutton (violin)
Teddy Rankin-Parker (cello)

Alphadog-ode to Spiegel

Rec - 15.03.21 - 21h41m20s

Music made using resonant saxophone feedback as the primary sound source with processing via MaxMSP. More information at http://www.aramshelton.com/music/tonal-masher/

Their Bad Fury

Rinnip Laith

New Work For Old

Another track - not mixed - using Roland SH101 and a soprano sax to see what can be done for a solo performance - in the future. Difficult to control a synth and play a sax simultaneously (Ouch)!
A note on the side...use headphones as there's lots of details you won't hear with just a laptop/computer/smartphone.

Synth 2a

The first track from Resounder, a hybrid improvised electroacoustic album from the trio of Aram Shelton, Fred Lonberg-Holm, and Frank Rosaly. Long time collaborators through the Chicago sextet Fast Citizens (Delmark), this album is a clear departure from their previous work together. 

Out now on Singlespeed Music. Find out more at http://www.singlespeedmusic.org

Shelton Lonberg-Holm Rosaly: Fading Memory

Shelton  / Jacobson  / Vestergaard is a saxophone, bass and drum trio formed in the winter of 2017 after Shelton moved to Copenhagen from Oakland, California. Jacobson and Vestergaard are active players in the Danish scene.  On a whim they played a set together and the connection was made.  Their music is improvised, free and raw, with a focus on energy and change. 

This track recorded live at Mayhem in Copenhagen.

Aram Shelton is an American improviser and composer who performs on saxophone, clarinets, and live electronics.  He focuses on creative music grounded in and influenced by the rich history of avant-jazz and free improvisation; his writing and playing has been documented through more than two dozen albums to date. He's been an integral member of the creative music communities in the Bay Area and Chicago, and has recently relocated to Copenhagen. http://www.aramshelton.com/

Tomo Jacobson is a Polish-born double bass player based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He graduated with a masters degree from the prestigious Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium in Copenhagen. He has also been studying musicology at the University of Warsaw, Poland.  He focuses his efforts on free improv and other creative musics. He writes and performs his own original music with several of his own projects: MOONBOW, IL SOGNO, FREE SPIRITUAL and others. http://www.tomojacobson.com/

Anders Vestergaard is a Danish drummer and composer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Best known as the drummer of Yes Deer and Laser Nun, with whom he has released several records and toured extensively. Anders also runs the label Abstract Tits together with the Norwegian saxophonist, Danielle Dahl.

Shelton / Jacobson / Vestergaard - Mid Winter

From the vibrant improvised music scene of Copenhagen comes a new quartet with Aram Shelton, alto saxophone, Grzegorz Tarwid, piano; Tomo Jacobson, bass, and Håkon Berre, percussion.  Their music, involving an instant-compositional mindset, reflects their diverse backgrounds in music and life.  Their first album Hopes and Fears will be released by Polish imprint Multikulti in September, 2017.
 
Aram Shelton is an improviser and composer who performs on saxophone, clarinets, and live electronics.  He focuses on creative music grounded in and influenced by the rich history of avant-jazz and free improvisation; his writing and playing has been documented through more than two dozen albums to date through Delmark, Clean Feed, Not Two, Cuneiform and Singlespeed Music. From the United States, he's been an integral member of the creative music communities in the Bay Area and Chicago, and recently moved to Copenhagen. www.aramshelton.com
 
Grzegorz Tarwid is one of the most exciting young Polish pianists of recent years, listed alongside Sebastian Zawadzki or Kuba Sokolowski. His stage credits include performances with Zbigniew Namysłowski or Tomasz Dąbrowski, recently with Wojciech Jachna (with whom he playes in awarded trio Jachna/Tarwid/ Karch), Kuba Więcek (they both work in a band INTO INTERLUDE) and the well-known German bassist Robert Landfermann. He has also performed in a number of countries including Germany, Ukraine and Latvia. He is now based in Cologne, Germany.
 
Tomo Jacobson is a Polish-born double bass player based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He focuses his efforts on free improv and other creative musics. With over a dozen albums to his credit, he is mostly known for the projects he is a leader, or co-leader to, namely MOONBOW (ILK Music - 2016), MOUNT MEANDER (Clean Feed - 2016), or IL SOGNO (coming in 2017), as well his solo double bass work (recording 12 solo albums in 2017), and free improv encounters with acclaimed musicians like John Tchicai, Andrew D'Angelo, Lotte Anker, Adam Rudolph, Rasul Siddik, Frank Gratkowski, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Sun Araw, and many others. Tomo has performed in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Estonia, Poland, Italy, Cuba, Belgium, Czech Republic, Portugal, Los Angeles and New York. www.tomojacobson.com
 
Håkon Berre is Norwegian drummer and composer, currently living in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he works as a freelance musician and educator. Being an active member of the record label & musicians collective Barefoot Records, Håkon has contributed on over 20 recordings, as well as being one of the co-founders. Håkons playing is characterized by an inventive and energetic drumming, using a rich palette of sounds from a wide diversity of trash and objects, and sometimes also incorporating real-time electronics. This can be heard on a discography spanning 35 CD's and LP’s, and has also brought him to numerous clubs and festivals all around the world with musicians like Peter Brötzmann, Phil Minton, Axel Dörner, John Tchicai, Peter Friis-Nielsen, Sture Ericson, Liudas Mockunas and Susana Santos Silva. www.haakonberre.com

Hopes and Fears

Shelton / Tarwid / Jacobson / Berre - Hopes and Fears(excerpt)

Aram Shelton is an improviser and composer who performs on saxophone, clarinets, and live electronics. He plays with a distinct, harmonically rich sound and develops musical thoughts through constant motion, tonal shifts and complex sounds alongside clear melodic and rhythmic constructs. His vocabulary utilizes the range of extended techniques including multiphonics and harmonics, circular breathing, wind sounds and an exploration of the outer ranges of the instrument. Shelton focuses on creative music grounded in and influenced by the rich history of avant-jazz and free improvisation; his writing and playing has been documented through more than two dozen albums to date. He's been an integral member of the creative music communities in the Bay Area and Chicago, and is currently waiting things out in the E.U.

Shelton / Tarwid / Jacobson / Berre - Hopes and Fears(excerpt)

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