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Thollem / Cline / Liebig / Gilcher / Wrenn

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This was a live concert recording at the Blue Whale in L.A. Unfortunately the long term venue has shutdown, like so many mid-sized venues around this country and world. This was recorded in stereo by the house, so it’s not a perfect mix, but of course I’m so glad it exists. I think it’s a tremendously enjoyable album with 4 great improvisers, two basses, double reeds and a gazillion drums!

BREANA GILCHER, MT-BC is an oboist, educator, improviser, and board-certified Music Therapist based in Los Angeles. She performs throughout California in a variety of musical settings, playing classical orchestral music with groups such as the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, LA Opera, Santa Barbara Symphony, Long Beach Symphony, Hollywood Chamber Orchestra, and Fresno Philharmonic, new music with wild Up contemporary music collective and Jacaranda Music, and historic performance with Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra. Passionate about improvisation, Breana frequently performs in improvised settings, including her own electroacoustic chamber ensemble Petrichor, which was invited to perform at the 2019 International Society for Improvised Music Festival and Conference. As a soloist she won second prize in the Riverside Philharmonic’s 2018 Concerto Competition for her performance of Vaughan Williams’ Concerto for Oboe and Strings. Breana also works extensively as a studio musician, contributing to scores for film and television.
Breana holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Therapy with specialized studies in Oboe Performance from Florida State University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Oboe Performance from California Institute of the Arts. Her primary teachers were Dr. Eric Ohlsson and Dr. Allan Vogel, respectively. She has pursued additional studies of English horn with Carolyn Hove, Baroque oboe with Gonzalo Ruiz, and improvisation with Vinny Golia.
A dedicated educator, Breana is on faculty at the University of Californa, Santa Barbara as the Lecturer in Oboe. In addition to her university teaching, she works as a Teaching Artist with Harmony Project and maintains her own private teaching studio. As a board- certified Music Therapist with the American Music Therapy Association, Breana has provided care for children with developmental disabilities, patients with Multiple Sclerosis, and the elderly, including a six-month clinical internship with Big Bend Hospice in Tallahassee, FL.
www.breanagilcher.com

MILLER WRENN is a Los Angeles-based bassist and composer-improviser. He works primarily in the fields of new, creative, and improvised music. He performs and records frequently in a wide variety of contexts and has been fortunate to do so with artists such as Vinny Golia, Eyvind Kang, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Stephanie Richards, Dan Rosenboom, Alex Cline, Vicki Ray, GE Stinson, Mark Menzies, Santa Monica Symphony, Larry Koonse, Joe LaBarbera, Tony Malaby, and many others. His first album as a leader, Alternates, with his quintet Escapist was released May 4th, 2018 on pfMentum Records. Recent solo works and recordings by his large ensemble can be found at
www.millerwrenn.com

A native of Los Angeles, drummer-percussionist-composer ALEX CLINE has been a mainstay on the creative music scene in the city for over forty years. He is known for his contributions to the music countless artists in the realm of creative jazz and new music, including Julius Hemphill, Vinny Golia, Tim Berne, Arthur Blythe, John Carter, Bobby Bradford, Henry Grimes, Richard Grossman, Jeff Gauthier, Horace Tapscott, Wadada Leo Smith, David Binney, Joseph Jarman, Joshua White, Yuka C. Honda, Charlie Haden, Hafez Modirzadeh, Satoko Fujii, Charles Lloyd, Myra Melford, and, of course, his twin brother, guitarist Nels Cline. He has also worked for many years as a bandleader-composer, having released eight albums under his own name as well as numerous collaborative projects (on the ECM, 9 Winds, and Cryptogramophone labels), the most recent of which is the deluxe two-CD package documenting his two-hour- long work for eleven-piece ensemble Oceans of Vows, which had its public debut at the 2015 Angel City Jazz Festival. Among the many dance and multimedia performance artists with whom Cline’s music has been heard are Oguri, Roxanne Steinberg, Open Gate Theatre, Carole Kim, Margaret Schuette, and Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan. He also curates the monthly Sunday evening concerts series of unusual music for Open Gate Theatre at the Center fo the Arts in Eagle Rock, a series which is in its 22nd year of existence.

When prompted to talk about himself in the third person, electric bassist/composer STEUART LIEBIG will tell you that he has been playing and writing music for a long time. It’s probably more interesting to see what other people have said about him:
“To say only that he plays bass would be misleading. As an improviser, he commands a shocking array of effects. As a composer, he can create rigorous but liberating frameworks for wide-open jazz on one hand and harmonica honk on the other. And mainly, he hears everybody else, assimilates it all and kicks it to another level.”
“A major concern of Steuart Liebig’s is space; acknowledging it, defining it, dividing it up. If anyone can be funky without necessarily grooving, it’s bassist Liebig, a master of the unexpected cosmic event.”
“Liebig is equally at home charting lunar terrain as he is in the pocket.”
“. . . nonpareil rethinker of electric bass . . . “
“Steuart Liebig’s bass isn’t a bass, it’s a giant alien creature in the heaving throes of partition.”
One of his recent focuses has been attempting to develop different techniques and timbral resources that are outside the normal practice of his instrument.

You can read a fuller biography here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steuart_Liebig
For a partial discography, go here: www.discogs.com/artist/338301-Steuart- Liebig

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released March 26, 2021

Steuart Liebig, 6-String Bass Guitar and Effects
Alex Cline, Drums
Miller Wrenn, Bass
Breana Gilcher, Oboe
Thollem, Piano and Synth

Edited by Thollem
Mastered by Drake Hardin
Cover art by ACVilla

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