Certain Fate

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Whistler waves as heard by the EMFISIS instrument aboard NASA’s Van Allen Probes as it passed around Earth.

Credits: NASA/University of Iowa

Whistler Waves

TEST and Roy Campbell (edit/preview)
Release date: Sept 4, 2020
5819

CD / DL
577 Records
www.577records.com

Roy Campbell - Trumpet
Daniel Carter: Alto & Tenor Sax, Trumpet, Flute
Sabir Mateen - Alto & Tenor Sax, Flute, Clarinet
Matthew Heyner - Bass
Tom Bruno - Drums


All music by Roy Campbell (Camroy Music, ASCAP) 
and TEST (New York City Artists Cooperative Music, BMI)

Recorded live in concert on April 16, 1999 at The Hint House, Harlem NYC by Matt Mottell
Mastered by Jeremy Loucas at Sear Sound, New York City

Drawing by Sacha Bruno
Graphic design by Sergio Vezzali


577 Records is proud to present the new album TEST and Roy Campbell, a live recording from April 16, 1999. This is the only known performance of Roy Campbell joining TEST: a collective band of Tom Bruno, Sabir Mateen, Daniel Carter, and Matt Heyner.

Following are edited notes from New York City musician Matt Mottell, who recorded the event:

“This performance was a benefit gig to repair the No Neck Blues Band’s van. John Fahey, Lee Ranaldo, and No Neck Blues Band joined the stacked lineup at No Neck Blues Band’s loft The Hint House and raised the ‘bread’ to fix the van. Spirits were lit with a listening and enthusiastic audience. The cathartic energy rising.

TEST occupied the public space of New York City. TEST’s typical audience was a passerby on a subway platform, a curious security guard on a smoke break in midtown, or the most ‘in the know’ subset of gig-goers. TEST, distinctly honed their working band approach, by actively gigging multiple times a week across the NYC subway map. When they performed at a ‘booked venue’, the listener witnessed the bullseye acumen of a working band. This ethos of the band choosing to ‘play anywhere/all the time’, separated TEST from other groups.

Roy, one of the hardest working musicians on the scene, had a bear hug that would ensconce its recipient with camaraderie and love. Roy lived at the north end of the Bronx, but nightly, was downtown, uptown, or somewhere in the middle playing weekly at venues such as Lenox Lounge, The Pink Pony, Brecht Forum, Tonic, Knitting Factory and CBGB’s Gallery.

Roy and TEST were ungrounded. They broke the glass ceiling on every hit, enriching the creative music community with manifest forward motion. On this album, we hear what the spirit of ‘the music’ is, was, and forever will be.”

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