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Three improvisations for Craig Ellis

by Matt Samolis

improvisation flute experimental wisdom advice

3 tracks

13:30

1	Craig's 1st	6:04
2	Craig's 3rd	3:42
3	Craig's 2nd	3:44

Album description

Recorded late in 2006, this duo improv session was an early date recorded at Half Round Records.

These are live duo improvisations between Peter Bloom & Matt Samolis, flutes. These pieces are dedicated to the percussionist Craig Ellis.

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brendaclews

Hauntingly beautiful flutesong

30/06/10

Haunting, ghostly. Moonlight on reeds by the riverbank drifting in the midnight breeze. A memoir of flutes, a flutesong, a reflection of memories. What's on the edge, where it's sensitive, quiet, where there's time to reflect, to honour. Birdsong. The natural sounds in these pieces are from Zen gardens, meditative canvases. The flutes sing to each other, catch rhythms for a bit, synch, spread apart, echo, reflect, explore new sonic landscapes, withdraw, play, converse, dance. Sometimes they are pretty, sometimes they collide like broken glass scratching on blackboard, sometimes like distant horns of Lethe. Intermingled in the tracks, a dirge, a singing of Orphean flutes. Yet, as if in the tree of life, coming from the tree of life, we listen to the singing of these instruments, their song.