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Improvised protest songs from free music group Ruhiges Gewerbe.

Estate Moments

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Evil Clown 9429
LIVESTREAMED to YouTube from Evil Clown Headquarters, Waltham MA 
18 July 2025

1) Replicants - 1:10:05
2) Unicorn Dreams - 5:47

PEK - clarinet, contralto & contrabass clarinets, alto, & tenor saxophones, shenai, piccolo oboe, English horn, tarota, goat horn, melodica, sheng, game calls, novation peak, moog subsequent, Linnstrument controllers, nord stage 3, lfo violin, ms-20 syntrx, noise tower, gravichord, daxophone, [d]ronin, 17 string bass, nagoya, spring & chime rod boxes, Tibetan bowls & bells, almglocken, crotales, glockenspiel, chimes, wood & temple blocks, brontosaurus & tank bells, gongs, plate gong, orchestral anvils & castanets, log drums, cow bells, Englephone, spiral cymbal, taxi horn, orchestral castanets, triangle chimes

Michael Caglianone - soprano, alto & tenor saxophones, clarinet, flute, melodica, game call, penny whistle, slide whistle, clown hammers, flex-a-tone, balafon, xylophone, almglocken, Englephone, wood & temple blocks, gravichord, crank siren

John Fugarino - trumpets, flugelhorn, trombone, French horn, melodica, nord stage 3, prophet, ms-20, array mbira, log drums, spring & chime rod boxes, balafon, xylophone, almglocken, Tibetan bowls & bells, noise tower, gongs, wood & temple blocks, 17 string bass, seed ped rattles, crotales

Robin Amos - studiologic sledge, waldorf blofeld, electric zither

Cyrus Shauoul - guitar, novation peak, moog subsequent, Linnstrument controllers, lfo percolator,
nord stage 3, gong

Jonathan LaMaster - violin, electric upright bass, balafon, xylophone, almglocken, electro-gadet

Michael Knoblach - festival drum, dumbek, frame drum, ocean drum, Tibetan bowls, flex-a-tone,wood blocks, seed pod rattles, orchestral castanets

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

Paul Brennan – photos

Raffi – video mix

Liner Notes by PEK

Simulacrum is an offshoot of Metal Chaos Ensemble that was conceived just prior to the Virus shutting things down.  The ensemble has generally featured 3 core members PEK on all my stuff, Eric Woods on analog synth, and Bob Moores on space trumpet, guitar, and electronics.  The basic idea of this band is to increase the amount of electronics, to keep the ancillary percussion and loose the drum set, along with PEK and Bob holding down the horn parts.  

Replicants was originally scheduled to be an octet.  We had three synthesis gurus: Robin Amos, Cyrus Shauoul, and Eric Woods; we had the Evil Clown power three horn front line:  PEK, John Fugarino and Michael Caglianone, and we had Scott Samenfeld on bass and Michael Knoblach on percussion. A solid octet of Evil Clown regulars!  As often happens though, we had an illness and Eric Woods did not make the set.

No worries.  One huge advantage of pure improvisation is that ensemble size and makeup is much less critical than bands that play repertoire and rely on fixed ensembles.  Bands in more popular styles, would not be able to continue with a planned event with late change to the planning.  In pure improvisation, the aesthetic problem posed to the improvisors is comprised of the players, the instrumental resources, the setting and circumstances of the event.  Changes to the unit change the problem, and therefore the solution to the problem, but do not mean that the music is less in any way or can’t continue in the face of even radical last second change.

This is a solid set from Simulacum which shows the overarching concept of this unit transcends the original core lineup since Bob and Eric are both absent. The electronics are superb from Robin and Shauoul (who also brought guitar this time). The horn section was super tight and so was the rhythm section. We all did a lot of doubling on the auxiliary instruments in the studio including the synth bank, so there is often more electronics present than just the two specialists… Great development and sonority all the way though.

Anyway, I like this set, and I bet you will too.

PEK Out – 7/18/2025


1) Replicants

2) Unicorn Dreams

christmas special recorded on thanksgiving eve 2023 and released on chrstmas day the same year

Christmas Special

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Evil Clown 9430
Evil Clown Headquarters, Waltham MA
19 July 2025

1) Probabilistic Notions – 1:09:56
2) Chance Events and Their Likelihood – 5:03

PEK – piccolo clarinet, clarinet, basset horn, contralto & contrabass clarinets, alto & tenor saxophones, piccolo oboe, English horn, shenai, melodica, Indian double flute, moog subsequent, novation peak, Linnstrument controllers, ms-20, nord stage 3, gravichord, lfo percolator, lfo violin, noise tower, 17 string bass, [d]ronin, spring & chime rod boxes, cow bells, chimes, crotales, theremin with moogerfooger,  glockenspiel, brontosaurus & tank bells, Tibetan bells &  bowls, wood & temple blocks, log drums, balafon, xylophone, triangle chimes, gongs, plate gong, orchestral chimes, spiral cymbal, Englephone, danmo

Glynis Lomon – cello, aquasonic, voice

John Fugarino – trumpet, slide trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone, French horn, melodica, penny whistle, slide whistle, ocarina, wood blocks, Tibetan bowls, gravichord,Englephone, orchestral castanets, crotales, glockenspiel, array mbira, talking drum, balafon, xylophoe, almglocken, orchestral anvils, noise tower, spring and chime rod boxes, nord stage 3, prophet, ms-20 

Bob Moores – trumpet, trumpet, log drums. wood & temple blocks, cow bells, triangle chimes, gongs, crotales, glockenspiel, orchestral castanets, almglocken, chimes, ratchet, Englephone, brontosaurus bell. danmo, moog subsequent, novation peak, Linnstrument controllers, nord stage 3, taxi horn, crank siren, rubber chickens, voice

Scott Samenfeld – electric upright bass, electric flute

Jared Seabrook – drums, orchestral anvils, Tibetan bowls, noise tower, gongs, bell trees, moog subsequent, novation peak, Linnstrument controllers, syntrx

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

----Liner Notes by PEK

A recurring format at Evil Clown Headquarters is PEK and Glynis with two extra horns, bass and drums. For Probabilistic Notions our horn player guests are brass players John Fugarino and Bob Moores. Our most regular bassist Scott Samenfeld is joined by special guest Jared Seabrook at the drum set for an outstanding rhythm section. Jared is a great drummer who has appeared on 4 previous Leap of Faith sets, 2 Turbulence sets and 1 Neurodivergent performance. He is one of our great players who is busy, but loves playing at Evil Clown, so he is very welcome when he is occasionally able to make it.  

Bob and John are both hard core regulars at Evil Clown. Bob has been a regular for the entire Contemporary Period starting in 2015 and has over 100 appearances on performances by most of the Evil Clown Ensembles. John played with Glynis and me in the Masashi Harada Sextet in the early 90s, and then we lost track of him until 2022 when we reconnected on Facebook. Since then, he has been one of our most frequent contributors, appearing on nearly 60 albums in 3 ½ years.

Anyway, a sextet ensemble with excellent players with such deep connections and who are all veterans of Evil Clown Headquarters performances is a blueprint for an excellent result. All of us did some or a lot of doubling on the auxiliary instruments in the space, so the improvisation proceeded through a long series of distinct sonorities over the duration. Of course, this is the goal of broad palette improvisation and Probabilistic Notions is a superbly executed example.

I really like this set, and I bet you will too…
-	PEK 7/22/2025


2) Chance Events and Their Likelihood

1) Probabilistic Notions

sound fragments, raw badly recorded footage
and live jams

a vault of unreleased "music" by johnaveli

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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