Track included in the seventeenth V.A compilation of People Can Listen Label (PCLVA017)
https://peoplecanlisten.bandcamp.com/album/pclva-017-seventeenth-listen

Mastering by Optionica: www.instagram.com/optionica

Original photo by Inga Makeyeva: www.instagram.com/ingamakeyeva_ph

Bandcamp

Bounce

From the album Breathing Starlight
Buy: https://scapeone.bandcamp.com/album/breathing-starlight
Stream album: https://share.amuse.io/XxbjQod6-84i

All tracks written, recorded and produced by Kurt Baggaley
Mastered by Simjon Spangler at Incision Mastering
Design by Scape One

An album of deep meditation for armchair astronauts. Each track is designed to take you on a journey of inner cosmic discovery with slow building arpeggios and intricately evolving sequences complimented by subtle washes of synth layers.

Mastered by Simjon Spangler at Incision Mastering.

The Sky Was Full

From the album Breathing Starlight
Buy: https://scapeone.bandcamp.com/album/breathing-starlight
Stream: https://share.amuse.io/XxbjQod6-84i

All tracks written, recorded and produced by Kurt Baggaley
Mastered by Simjon Spangler at Incision Mastering
Design by Scape One

An album of deep meditation for armchair astronauts. Each track is designed to take you on a journey of inner cosmic discovery with slow building arpeggios and intricately evolving sequences complimented by subtle washes of synth layers.

Mastered by Simjon Spangler at Incision Mastering.

Beyond Albiro

Breathing Starlight

From inspiration to realisation is only a matter of minutes, sometimes.

This is one such instance, encompassing guitar --> looping --> layering --> getting rid of loads of that stuff and --> shifting the remainder back and forth until it seemed to fit.

Enjoy!

(Note: the tuning on this is C G C G B F)

Rambling

It is a huge honour to publish Peter Brotzmann’s final concerts on OTOROKU. When we invited Peter to do a residency at Cafe OTO back in February 2023 we had no idea these would be his last ever shows and he played with such power it would have been hard for anyone present to believe he would never play publicly again.

Recorded over two nights this grouping of Jason Adasiewicz on vibraphone, John Edwards on bass and Steve Noble on drums feels especially resonant and personal to Cafe OTO. The first time Peter performed at the venue back in 2010 it was in a trio with John and Steve, (released as The Worse The Better kick starting our in-house record label) so it feels fitting that the last shows he ever played here should also have that trio at its core.

The quartet last played together at OTO back in 2013, (released as Mental Shake on OTOROKU), and Brotzmann humbly opened the return of the group saying, "it's a pleasure to be back” before launching straight into a long blast on the alto sax, swiftly met by the relentless energy and engagement of Adasiewicz, Edwards and Noble.

There are moments of tenderness to Brotzmann’s playing that feels specific to this small group - one that cuts across three generations - and in a space that’s come to feel like home. Of course, there is dizzying, forceful, singleminded playing, but even amongst a relentless chorus of cymbal splashes and busy vibraphone clusters the lyrical, spacious moments are savoured and held onto. As he remarked after at the end of the group's first visit to OTO, “the Quartet is, for us, a great adventure.”

Peter clearly wanted to play to the end. Did he know these might be his last shows? We will never know. What is clear is he wanted to go out in style and on his terms. For anyone in the room at the time or listening to these recordings it’s clear he achieved that.

It was Peter’s wish that these recordings should be made public and he was due to finalise the cover design on the week he passed away. We would like to thank Peter’s family for working with us to fulfil Peter’s wishes to release this material but more than anything we would like to thank Peter for all the extraordinary memories, his generosity and all he has given the music. On a personal level for us, like so many, he meant a huge amount and we miss him deeply.

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Peter Brotzmann / reeds 
John Edwards / double bass 
Steve Noble / drums 
Jason Adasiewicz / vibraphone 

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ROKU033 - Peter Brotzmann / Jason Adasiewicz / Steve Noble / John Edwards - The Quartet [sample]

Seed to Stage Jamnuary daily (or as many as I can manage) jam challenge for two weeks

Jamns2025_Day 2

Jamns2025_Day 3

By Your Side

Fragmented Light

An edited track from my album "Book List Continued"

IvanB

Journey to the East (Edit)

https://scapeone.bandcamp.com/follow_me
Kurt Baggaley, also known under the alias as Scape One is an electronic music producer based in England. Over the course of his career his music has ranged from driving futuristic electro of his early EPs to more deep and experimental ambient electronica of his Tau Sagittarii releases. His output has gradually become more conceptual with works such as 2012's Natural Phases which focuses on down tempo stripped down low-fi beats with wave formed harmonics. 2015's Former Self consisting of intricate and a slowly building hypnosis of synth sequences.
https://soundcloud.com/kurt-baggaley
https://soundcloud.com/tau-sagittarii

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