Raven Chacon and I have played together in different configurations over the years. He appears on my album Keyngdrum Overdrive on Union Pole Tapes. We've also played in trio on several occasions with John Dieterich (Deerhoof). I came through Toronto while on tour last year. He was an artist in residence at Array Music there and they invited us to play this duo concert. The 2nd set I also played a two-piano set with Michael Snow! On this recording Raven is processing my sounds from my voice and my synth (Waldorf Blofeld) through an array of pedals he had set up on the table next to me. Much thanks to Array Music!
Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, collaborator, or with Postcommodity, Chacon has exhibited or performed at Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, REDCAT, Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, 18th Biennale of Sydney, and The Kennedy Center. Every year, he teaches 20 students to write string quartets for the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). He is the recipient of the United States Artists fellowship in Music, The Creative Capital award in Visual Arts, The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation artist fellowship, and the American Academy’s Berlin Prize for Music Composition.
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released November 6, 2020
Raven Chacon - Electronics
Thollem - Synthesizer
Live concert recording by Kelley Mitchell - Nov. 28th, 2019
at The Array Space in Toronto, ON
www.arraymusic.ca
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I don't just love this album, its almost certainly in my Top 10 albums of all time (like those other 200 or so corkers lol) but this is splendid. Free jazz jams slowly coalescing into the heaviest grooves this side of the Sunn(()), just mind-blowing head candy. Wish I owned the cassette!! :( Monkton Wylde
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"Pickups groan and scream, tachycardic drums carry a metallic gleam, and the bass lurks with playful menace."
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The intensity and power, the majesty, an ocean is beautiful and horrifying in concept, a representation of the power of nature to mystify and then swallow you whole, I walk straight into this ocean and it does what it will. Mighttheone