Michael Pisaro-Liu — Tombstones: Live in Brooklyn (feat. Julia Holter) (CD)
Tracklisting
01. Blues fall (5:59)
02. Tombstone (2:31)
03. Fool (4:10)
04. Very Clear (5:34)
05. The outside of everything (Edit) (3:16)
06. The darkness is falling (7:03)
Format CD with insert
Catalog Number EV013
Press Release (PDF)
About
"Tombstones," a collection of twenty songs composed by Michael Pisaro-Liu between 2006 and 2010, constitutes a kind of experimental pop. The pieces take tiny fragments of existing popular, country, or blues songs and put them into an experimental musical situation, introducing them to a kind of chaos, where the arrangement of written-out material is up for grabs. This release features a selection of six songs performed and recorded live in Brooklyn in 2012. Under the direction of guitarist Jason Brogan, and featuring singer Julia Holter, the ensemble includes Tucker Dulin (trombone), Andrew Lafkas (double bass), Katie Porter (clarinets), Sam Sfirri (piano and melodica), and Ron Wiltrout (keyboard and percussion).
Artist Bios
Michael Pisaro-Liu (born, Michael Pisaro, 1961 in Buffalo, New York) is a guitarist and composer and a long-time member of the Wandelweiser collective. While, like other members of Wandelweiser, Pisaro-Liu is known for pieces of long duration with periods of silence, in the past fifteen years his work has branched out in many directions, including work with field recording, electronics, improvisation and ensembles of very different kinds of instrumental constitution.
Julia Holter is a composer, performer, and recording artist based in Los Angeles. Her interest in sonic mysteries has led her to record in various settings — in her home, outside with a field recorder, and in recording studios — as well as to perform live, often with a focus on the voice and the space between language and babble. Holter’s music is multi-layered and texturally rich. She has amassed a body of work that explores melody within free song structures, atmosphere, and the impulses of the voice.
Jason Brogan is a guitarist and composer who has collaborated with and performed music by Jürg Frey, Julia Holter, Catherine Lamb, Alvin Lucier, Michael Pisaro-Liu, James Saunders, Sam Sfirri, Mark So, Taku Sugimoto, and Manfred Werder, among others. He curated the concert series Silent Music: 4’33’’ and Beyond, the conspectus Michael Pisaro: 2000–2010, and Keith Rowe: Extended at The New School.
Credits
releases August 5, 2022
"Tombstones" [2006–10] composed by Michael Pisaro-Liu
Recorded live on October 3, 2012 at Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral, Brooklyn, New York; presented by ISSUE Project Room.
Jason Brogan, director and electric guitar
Tucker Dulin, trombone
Julia Holter, voice
Andrew Lafkas, bass
Katie Porter, clarinets
Sam Sfirri, melodica and piano
Ron Wiltrout, keyboard, percussion, and voice
Produced by Jason Brogan
Recorded by Adam Bach
Audio restoration by Murat Çolak
Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering
Artwork by Genevieve Lutkin and design by Jordan Dykstra
© Michael Pisaro-Liu (BMI), 2022
℗ Editions Verde (BMI), 2022
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