Greg Campbell plays drums, percussion, French horn, and other instruments. He works in the broader jazz and classical traditions, performing with groups ranging from the Seattle Modern Orchestra to Wayne Horvitz’s Electric Circus, and with artists such as steel pan virtuoso Ray Holman, Eyvind Kang, Ali Birra, Vinny Golia, Lori Goldston, Christian Asplund, Nels Cline, and James Falzone. His studies with Asante palmwine guitarist Koo Nimo led him to Ghana in 2017; he has worked with Koo Nimo’s son Yaw Amponsah in the traditional Asante drumming group Anokye Agofomma for more than twenty years. Greg teaches at the Cornish College of the Arts and at Cascadia College.

"The Simultonality Endeavor"

In each of these improvised pieces, I play two different instruments at the same time. Since many of these pairs contain instruments with different playing techniques and pitch ordering methods, I was interested to see how my attention as an improviser would be focused and/or divided. I owe a debt of gratitude for inspiring my approach here to multi-instrumentalists Jerome Cooper (especially his 1979 album "The Unpredictability Of Predictability") and Roscoe Mitchell. 

Each instrument pairing is dedicated to spirits who left us lately but way too soon:

G bugle and drum set (to Patrick Campbell); French horn and resonant metals (to Paul Taub); kpanlogo drum and drum set (to Bill Withers); vibraphone and cornet (to Bill Smith); French horn and toy electric saxophone (to Mohammed Shaibu); orchestra chimes and vibraphone (to George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, and many thousands gone).

(00:00) Chimes & Vibraphone 1
(03:18) Bugle & Drum Set 1
(05:22) French Horn & Toy Electric Sax
(09:32) Chimes & Vibraphone 2
(14:11) Kpanlogo Drum & Drum Set
(17:56) Bugle & Drum Set 2
(19:07) Chimes & Vibraphone 3
(25:57) Cornet & Vibraphone
(30:19) French Horn & Resonant Metals

Wayward in Limbo #128 – Greg Campbell

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention with special guest Rahsaan Roland Kirk at The Boston Globe Jazz Festival January 31, 1969.  Recorded by yours truly on a portable Sony reel-to-reel that I smuggled into the event.

Frank Zappa & The Mothers with Rahsaan Roland Kirk at The Boston Globe Jazz Festival 1-31-69

Hound Dog Taylor's Hand - Consummatum Est
Jeffrey Taylor - guitar, John Seman - contrabass, Mark Ostrowski - drums
recorded by Seman Feb 2016
art by JT

Hound Dog Taylor's Hand - Consummatum Est

Morton Feldman's six-hour String Quartet No. 2 time compressed to 6.66% of its original length. 
24/48 wav extracted from Mode Feldman Edition 6 DVD, performed by FLUX Quartet. Time compressed in ProTools 10.

Morton Feldman String Quartet No. 2 (time compressed)

Star Wars Rebels Season 3 OST - Sabine Suite

This piece was written for the Lou Harrison Centennial celebration in 2017. Commissioned by Thingamajigs. Pipa soloist is Sophia Shen

Zephyros

Longtime collaborators Amirtha Kidambi (voice) and Darius Jones (alto sax) join sonic and compositional forces to materialize "Angels and Demons", musical adaptations of cosmological writings by iconic improviser and bandleader Sun Ra. Singer Amirtha Kidambi contributed in extraordinary fashion to The Oversoul Manual (AUM Fidelity), saxophonist and composer Darius Jones’s all-vocal (but wordless) suite, the fourth installment of his Man’ish Boy Epic, performed by the Elizabeth-Caroline Unit. The duo formed to honor the intellectual, musical, literary and spiritual contribution of Sun Ra, as a great Black composer. Dancing between Ra's prophetic poetic verse, abstract phonemes and syllables, sound, noise, tone, melody and rhythmic interplay, Jones and Kidambi use their unique compositional and improvisatory voices to amplify Ra's thought to contemporary audiences.

Darius Jones and Amirtha Kidambi "Angels and Demons"

"Vibrator" - Vanity 6

Nancarrow Study 6 - Stereo Mix

A stunning open improv matching of John Zorn on alto sax and game calls with shamisen master Masahiro Sato.

Roulette Concert Archive // roulette.org

John Zorn & Masahiro Sato 4 Oct 1985

Dave Knott - gathers, plays with sounds; nurtures change with music; enjoys dialogue with movement, listening and dreaming.
https://sonocern.org 
https://soundcloud.com/dave-knott
https://allthewowtwicetheflutter.bandcamp.com 

"Requia"

memory’s tempering improvisations 
playing with the dead
who have all dispersed in wonder 
as loss is lifted 
off a Fahey record from 1967

Hound Dog Taylor's Hand - Consummatum Est

seman

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