Australian drummer and composer, Michael Caratti, leads this avant-garde jazz/metal trio. Their first record, “Synaptic Self”, was recorded last April at East Side Sound studio in NYC and it was released on the 25th of August.

CDs and high quality downloads available on our Bandcamp: https://ilusorecords.bandcamp.com/album/synaptic-self

dMU are:
Josh Sinton: baritone sax and bass clarinet
Álvaro Domene: electric guitar
Michael Caratti: drums and compositions

Recorded and mixed by Marc Urselli at East Side Sound, NYC. April 2016.
Mastered by Adrian Sardi at The Vault, Perth
Art and design by Shea Walsh

Synaptic Self

dMU - "Ubasute" from Synaptic Self (Iluso 04)

“Guitarist Han-earl Park is a musical philosopher…. Expect unexpected things from Park, who is a delightful shape-shifter….” — Brian Morton (Point of Departure)

Shifting and switching from No Wave skronk to interstellar guitarist-as-drummer virtuosity, from stampedes of miniature Pomeranian Buffalos to All-You-Zombies heterophonies, Han-earl Park (박한얼) has been performing beautifully messy, joyously difficult, ambiguous and discordant improvised musics for over twenty years.

Park is the mastermind behind ensembles including Eris 136199 with Catherine Sikora and Nick Didkovsky; Juno 3 with Lara Jones and Pat Thomas; and Gonggong 225088 with Yorgos Dimitriadis and Camila Nebbia; and performs as part of a duo with Richard Barrett. His ensembles have appeared at festivals including Jazz em Agosto (Lisbon), EFG London Jazz Festival, Brilliant Corners (Belfast), Freedom of the City (London), ISIM (New York), dialogues festival (Edinburgh) and Sonic Acts (Amsterdam). Park’s recordings have been released by labels including NEWJAiM, Ramble Records, SLAM Productions, Creative Sources and DUNS Limited Edition.

“A colorful, sometimes violent and revelatory listening experience that infuses modern aesthetics with the spirit of the ancient…. Ancient and primordial with ideas as open as the night sky….” — John Morrison (Jazz Right Now)

“Park… may just have the specter of drumming giant Rashied Ali guiding his hands. His fingers, palms and wrists tirelessly bounce, skitter, smear, stroke, strum, hammer-on, pull-off and thump his solid-body electric. Considering the rapidity of his technique, the effect is not simply percussive, but utterly drumkit-like and a liberated kit at that….” — John Pietaro (The New York City Jazz Record)

Dave Jackson has played experimental/free improvised music/noise for over 20 years with the likes of Solar Fire Trio, Eddie Prevost, Chris Corsano, Assif Tsahar, Dirk Serries, Richard Hemmings, Graham Clark, Carlos Zingaro, Jeffrey Morgan, Steve Belger, Phil Marks, Jooklo Duo, Olie Brice, Fonik, Warrington Improvised Music Collective, Psychiatric Challenge, Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, John Russell, Paul Rutherford, Frakture Big Band, Noise Upstairs, THF Drenching, Brian Benson, Nick Mitchell, Beach Fuzz, Motion Detectors, Barry Dean, Open Eye Ensemble, Kelley Jones, Pascal Nichols, Dave Birchall, Richard Harrison, Andy Gill, John Scott, Danny Saul, Paralysis, Withoutlaw, Sannyasin, WMD Sax Trio, NOW Sextet, Roadside Picnic, Metzengerstein, Echo Hazard, Evil Dick, Buddha Shakya, Tilak Magar, Mara Bhaja and a whole load of other folks...

plays saxophones and clarinets, guitars, electronic devices
Discography -
Solo Saxophone 2013 - http://davejackson.bandcamp.com/album/solo-saxophone-2013
              
Solar Fire Trio - 
Solar Fire Trio (2006)
 Rise Up (2007)
 Hand To Mouth (2008)
 The Adjacent Sector (compilation) (2008)
 Feral Debris (compilation) (2007)
 
with Frakture Big Band -
 Funfzehn (2005)
 Cornerstone (2005)
 Live at The Picton Reading Rooms (2006)
 
with Beach Fuzz -
 Nosferatu Hex (2009)
 
with Psychiatric Challenge -
 Northern Silence (2004)
 Northern Solar Noise (2007)
 It;s Just Noise (with Lol Coxhill) (2007)
 Four Plus Five (2006)
 Why do We Talk ? (2006)
 Provocation Of Sound (2007)
 Concerto for White Goods and Electronics (2008)
 Fobefusa (2008)
 Hmmmmmm (2008)
 
with Fonik - 
A Burning Watercolour (2009)
 
Sannyasin - 
Muladhara (2008)
 Scope (2009)

check my bandcamp page for more stuff -  http://davejackson.bandcamp.com/
 
I've also done rcording, editing and mastering for Part Wild Horses Manes On Both Sides, Gnod, A Middle Sex, Irma Vep, Beach Fuzz, Golden Labs Records, Rayon Records, Queens Ark Recordings and a bunch of other disparate characters.. if you're interested in mastering, get in touch

Reviews
"Dave Jackson free-squeeks the alto sax into Patty Waters/Yoko Ono’s attic.... - Julian Cope

 "classic squee-pileage in the post-ESP tradition..... loose sonic collisions and and interwoven blather in ripely extended fire-form, all revolving around theories of meat and its ability to burn. Solid, savage blurt." - Thurston Moore - Arthur Magazine 

"nice freak register tangling" - Byron Coley

 It’s almost more than I can bear and words never took me here. I am drunk. Pissed through the ears as it were, inebriated on a chaos symphony, tripping on an acid-fuelled maelstrom of impeccably blown hellishness and thrown into the comfortably familiar zone of sweet oblivion. Why does this beautiful f***ing mess make me want to cry so hard? The world is a different place. I am dust." Damo Kawasaki - Plan B Magazine 

“Incendiary free jazz blast.... with live talent like this on your doorstep, there’s no need to hunt down obscure Peter Brötzmann or ESP-Disk records from the 1960’s” – Alan Haselden

 "Ornette meets Iggy" - Freenoise

Baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, composition. Jazz-trained, but free of all that baggage now. Pieces both improvised and pre-formed. "It's all music!"

Iluso Records is an independent record label founded in 2013.

"Total facemelt music. Just what I needed today." –  Nate Chinen (New York Times, NPR)

Álvaro Domene is a Madrid-born, New York based guitarist and composer operating at the convergence of various styles of contemporary creative music. His sound and compositions are influenced by the avant-garde jazz and modern classical traditions, as well as metal music. He has performed and taught internationally, and recently worked with Joe McPhee, Karl Berger, Elliott Sharp, Henry Kaiser, Briggan Krauss, Michaël Attias, Jim Black, Ben Goldberg, Michael Bisio, Colin Marston, Mike Pride, Ches Smith, Scott Amendola, and Fred Lonberg-Holm.