This was a meeting of 4 people with varying degrees of familiarity. I had played a bit with Orlando, more so with Peter and had never met Jacqueline. The result is pretty stunning regardless of the history, or non-history, as a group of individuals. I think this document illustrates the potential of improvised music to navigate many different territories. This album is definitely an adventure!

PETER VALSAMIS is a Los Angeles-based drummer/percussionist/composer/sound designer. His unique approach to drumming synthesizes a variety of musical styles into his own unique sound. He has performed with Trance Mission, Emeline Michel, Martine St. Clair, Mitsou, Cecil Taylor, Don Preston, Walter Aziz, Dana Reason, Steve Lacy, and many others. Peter is also an accomplished composer and sound designer, working on titles such as Transformers, Star Trek, Battleship, The Price is Right, Jeopardy, and Wheel of Fortune. Peter received his M.F.A. in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College.
www.pvalsamis.wixsite.com/panagiotis

ORLANDO GREENHILL, Acoustic and Electric Bass and Voice
Multi instrumentalist, experimental, eclectic musician Orlando Greenhill is an improviser, composer, and music instructor. He is no stranger when it comes to the diverse styles of music he has had a hand in melding and mixing together when it comes to his own work as well as when it comes to the array of musicians he has played and collaborated with. Greenhill is most known for playing in bands Havalina Rail Co, and Create(!). He also has ties to the groups like alternative neo soul group Homemade Gravy, poetry troupe Elastikids and avant garde veterans the Los Angeles Free Music Society - playing with the Artificial Art Ensemble. He has also recorded with hip hop artists like Pigeon John, Omid Walizadeh, and Sach (aka Nouka Basetype of the legend hip hop group the Nonce), with the SFC, LPG and LA Symphonies, to indie rock band Mewithoutyou as well as Liz Jane's, the Castanets, composer multi instrumentalist Justice Constantine, and progressive pop alt artist Brig Feltus (whom he's also performed live with) etc.. He has also performed live with many bands and artists, most notably death rock/goth legend Eva O, renown progcore drummer/composer Yoshida Tatsuya (Ruins/Koenji Hyakkei/Zeni Geva etc), Bizzart, Mutha Wit (Boston Fielder), Thollem McDonas, Loie Fuller featuring Michael Daracatti, Derek Stovall (Skyline Drive/ 60 watt kid) and Micheal Miely (Rival Sons), Leila Adu, the Deadbeats (L.A.Punk band ), LsRebels, Lynn Johnston, Peter Valsamis, Elliot Levine and so many others. Greenhill is a part of the Sound Army Music Collective, a group he formed from the community music programs he hosts, based in Long Beach CA and has a music education project online called the black history of rock n roll via Instagram and YouTube. Greenhill is also an actor as well, and has used his music and dance talents with the likes of musicians K Michelle, Fetty Wap, Dave Stewart ( Eurythmics) -via Vanessa Amorosi, Hengameh, and Hammaki.

www.soundcloud.com/orlandogreehill
www.lbpost.com/hi-lo/i-can-be-free-for-a-generation-homelands-instant-band-has-produced-a-sound-army

Jacqueline KIM is a composer and visual artist with a strong social practice. Kim has composed for and co-wrote the Sundance (Special Jury prize) feature, Advantageous, collaborates as the entity This I Heard (recently on Class Photo’s Light Years Later), and, interested in the raga and environmental architecture of long form pieces, is writing an homage to the experience of being displaced.

www.jacquelinekim.net
soundcloud.com/thisiheard/sets