SeaJun Kwon’s Walking Cliché Sextet - Micro-Nap
October 21, 2022 - Endectomorph Music

Micro-Nap is the title track of composer and bassist SeaJun Kwon’s exploratory second album with his Walking Cliché Sextet. 

Featuring:
SeaJun Kwon - bass
Erez Dessel - piano (tracks 1-4)
Jacob Hiser - piano (tracks 5-7)
Avery Logan - drums (tracks 1-4)
Charles Weller - drums (tracks 5-7)
Aaron Dutton - alto saxophone
Jacob Shulman - tenor saxophone
Michael Prentky - trombone and tuba


"Composer SeaJun Kwon blurs the line between organized noise and polyphonic chaos.” – Blake Sluslaw, Boston Hassle

Micro Nap

"Micro-Nap" - SeaJun Kwon

Phyleisg

Large meterless tuplets in different sizes create polytempic landscape with four tunings: 24, 26, 30, and 31 TET combine at blistering speed to shatter your consciousness into pure fragments and shards of nothingness. 2019

String Quartet IX for four pianos, FRACTURED CONSCIOUSNESS

I always have a story behind things. Here's another one... 

As a vocalist I'm intrigued by John Coltrane's "Giant Steps". I've had a longstanding desire to sing it from the soul, and not as an intellectual pursuit. So I wrote a song to the changes. (There's actually a whole other story behind this one, too. smh...)

For my NEC grad recital in 2012 I wrote the tune into the printed program but never actually composed it until the morning of the recital, driving with friends from Brooklyn up to Boston. The band (instrumentalists + singers) and I tried it out in dress rehearsal for about two minutes and then played it through that evening during the actual recital, for the first time. Of all the pieces performed that evening, the energy we shared for the tune, that night, is still unforgettable to me. Eight years later, I decided as a benchmark birthday present to myself I would begin the recording process of this tune and invited four NEC students to join me. I'm still learning the song, but this is how they helped me bring it alive thus far.

Nedelka F. Prescod, vocals, melody, lyrics and co-arranger
Joseph Copeland, co-arranger
Erez Dessel, piano
Andrew Shield, e-guitar
Tyler Wagner, bass and production
Alex Yoo, drums

The introductory sample is from the recital featuring a whole crew of amazing instrumentalists and singers that created an amazing vibe and spirit that was NEC in 2012. I will return to name everyone. Respect

This recording was done virtually in the year 2020... in the midst of all that came with it.

Blessings

Phyleisg

Hayoung Lyou