Del Rey

Stella by Starlight

I'm Tired of Being so Hype

Free Improvisation 2

Como Bobo

1) Recipes for Prediction – 1:10:35
2) Future Trends – 5:26

PEK – clarinet, basset horn, contralto & contrabass clarinets, alto & tenor saxophones, alto flute, Russian wood flute, Indian double flute, piccolo oboe, English horn, contrabassoon, shenai, sheng, accordion, melodica, goat horn, 17-string bass, [d]ronin, moog subsequent, novation peak, Linnstrument controllers, syntrx, ms-20, lfo violin, daxophone, gravichord, noise tower, spring & chime rod boxes, array mbira, gongs, plate gong, brontosaurus & tank bells, log drums, wood & temple blocks, Tibetan bells & bowls, seed pod rattles, orchestral castanets, ratchet, guiro, flex-a-tone, almglocken, Englephone, danmo, balafon, xylophone, orchestral chimes & anvils, rubber chickens, psychic babbling

John Fugarino – trumpet, slide trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone, valve trombone, French horn, penny whistle, ocarina, nord stage 3, prophet, nord stage 3, prophet, moog subsequent,spring & chime rod boxes, array mbira, spring & chime rod boxes, zithers, xylophone, balafon, almglocken, guiro, Tibetan bowls, gongs, seed pod rattles, bells, lfo violin

Bob Moores – space trumpet, slide whistle, pipe xylo, zithers, nord stage 3, prophet, moog subsequent, novation peak, Linnstrument controllers, orchestral castanets, brontosaurus bell, crotales, glockenspiel, log drums, wood & temple blocks, cow bells, gongs, plate gong, triangle chimes, ratchet, psychic babbling

Scott Samenfeld – electric upright bass, electric flute

Jared Seabrook – drums, gongs, noise tower, Tibetan bells & bowls, almglocken, bells, rattles, moog subsequent, novation peak, Linnstrument controllers, clown hammer

Joel Simches – Live to 2-track recording, real-time signal processing

----Liner Notes by PEK

I formed Turbulence in 2015 as I started to assemble players for the Leap of Faith Orchestra. Turbulence, the extended horn section for the Orchestra (along with guests on other instruments), also records and performs as an independent unit. As if this writing in 2025, we have recorded over 60 albums on Evil Clown with greatly varied ensembles.  All the smaller Evil Clown bands are really more about a general approach, rather than a specific set of musicians.  A session gets credited to Turbulence when it is mostly horn players and the only musician on all of them is me. The sessions range from an early duet with Steve Norton and me (Vortex Generation Mechanisms) to a 5-horn band with bass and two percussionists (Encryption Schemes) to four albums by the side project Turbulence Doom Choir which feature myself, multiple tubas, percussion, electronics, and signal processing and many other configurations.

Recipes for Prediction was planned as a Leap of Faith set to follow up Leap of Faith Probabilistic Notions recorded several weeks ago with a very similar ensemble. Performances are credited to LOF when PEK and Glynis Lomon are both on the session, but Glynis has been moving recently and was unable to make this set, so I repurposed the ensemble for three-horns with bass & drums credited to Turbulence. Probabilistic Notions was a strong performance, and it is interesting to notice how this one is both so similar and so different with just two differences in personal – the missing Glynis and Bob Moores on trumpet instead of Michael Calianone on reeds.  

Both Leap of Faith and Turbulence have done quite a few sessions with three horns, bass and drums (and cello with LOF). I think of this as our Art Ensemble of Chicago model and it is a powerful one. Tight groups of players who know each other’s improvisation languages can engage in very interesting, improvised counterpoint as well as textual composition. John, Bob and I are super-tight in the horn ensemble sections and we also each do a lot of doubling on the percussion and electronic auxiliary instruments fully leveraging the broad palette environment at Evil Clown Headquarters.

I really like this set, and I bet you will too…
-	PEK 8/3/2025


2) Future Trends

1) Recipies for Prediction

Mix UMC Track 1

Today's piano meditation took me into some vast, uneven lands and terrains. I  heard birds singing and felt falling rains. It was light and then dark and then light again. Sometimes it's good to improvise while being tired, so that your control is even less possible. Only the piano has a voice here.

The illustration is a close up view of my 2023 large-scale drawing Inverted Explosions II, in which the materialities and fluidities  of resin, water, graphite powder and dry pigments, all consolidate into wholeness, becoming the inversion of something once exploded, dispersed.

August 12 2025 Piano Meditation

Soul (душа) is the second track of Hella EP from "Goriz" band.
This piece is composed using a blend of storytelling in Russian (I'm not sure about Russian or Ukrainian :))), ambient textures, and polymodal harmony, enhanced by extended drum techniques that help create a unique atmosphere.
Piano: Mahammad Ali Jokar
Drums: Sadredin Esmaily
Vocal: Donya Kiyani
Mix & Mastering: Amirali Tohidi

Soul (душа)

Sketch is the 3rd track on the Hella album by "Goriz" Band.
This piece is a free improvisation.

Sketch

Goriz Project was created by Sadredin Esmaily and Mohammad Ali Jokar, as a drummer-composer and pianist–tanbur player–composer, respectively. The word "Goriz" means escape; we chose this term because we aim to escape from the fixed algorithms and aesthetics of any specific genre.
We seek inspiration from a wide variety of music, without drawing borders between ethnic, classical, contemporary, jazz, rock, folk, or avant-garde styles.

The instrumentation is also not completely fixed — it can be changed, expanded, or replaced based on our taste and artistic needs.
We are actively seeking opportunities to perform at music festivals worldwide and to collaborate with innovative international and ethnic musicians.
We are also seeking professional producers interested in publishing and promoting our original compositions.

Monika Weiss is a New York based contemporary sound and intermedia artist, originally from Warsaw

Improviser on Woodwinds, Percussion and Electronics.  CEO of Evil Clown, Leader of Evil Clown projects:  Leap of Faith Orchestra, Leap of Faith, String Theory, Metal Chaos Ensemble and Turbulence

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