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loop.pool wrote: > I don't know if this got posted yet, or not but one of our own just > got about as good a review > as one could get from the WIRE magazine just the other day. > > I've had the pleasure of hearing Jeff play and this past weekend > playing with him and he is > a wonderful musician, deserving of such high accolades. > > Buy this CD, you'll be so glad you did. > > ********* > ********* > > from THE WIRE, MAY 2006 > > The Choir Boys > The Choir Boys with Strings > > Pfmentum CD > > Recorded live in two large suites at Ventura College Theatre by the > quartet of Andrew Pask clarinet, bass clarinet, alto and bass penny > whistle, Jeff Kaiser on trumpet and a version of Don Ellis's quarter > tone instrument and GE Stinson and Steuart Liebig on guitar and bass > guitar respectively, The Choir Boys With Strings serves to show how > slow someone like Anthony Braxton has been to wake up to the potential > of electronics in improvised music. One can imagine someone like George > Lewis taking part in something like this, though the language is closer > to the saxophonist's. Everyone's plugged into something and the result > is an urgent, witty and often moving collage of acoustic and electronic > sound which doesn't draw attention to itself, but lets some genuinely > powerful music come through. > > Brian Morton Congrats to The Choir Boys! Jeff sent me a promo a few months back and it is indeed great stuff. Andrew -- Andrew Duke scoring/sound design/source http://andrew-duke.com http://myspace.com/andrewduke Cognition Audioworks label [Andrew Duke, Foal, Clinker, Granny'Ark] http://cognitionaudioworks.com