• DIGIPACK EDITION

Time-traveling Sergio Armaroli takes advantage of this openness. He has previously worked with Downtown legend Elliott Sharp and Steve Piccolo of Lounge Lizards fame. This session also adds two giants of the UK free improvisation scene, bassist John Edwards and drummer Mark Sanders … Like Patchen’s script for “The Voice” in The City Wears a Slouch Hat, Piccolo’s utterances describe people, objects, places, and actions such as “iron scaffolding shaking in the wind,” “chewing on crackers,” and “scraping frosted windshield.” Piccolo’s verses which are the counterpart to Armaroli’s Figure(s), could just as easily have been uttered in Chicago 1942. Both cue the assembled musicians to illus trate the pages of this phantasmagorical graphic novel for the listener. - Mark Corroto

PERSONNEL:
Sergio Armaroli - (vibraphone)
Elliott Sharp - (guitar, soprano saxophone)
Steve Piccolo - (speech and electronic devices)
John Edwards - (double bass)
Mark Sanders - (drums)

Recorded at Blackstar Recording Studio, Milan, Italy, on September 15-16, 2023

TRACKS:
01 Intro
02 Pigs Grunting
03 The Train
04 Chewing On Crackers
05 BluBottle Fly
06 Rubber Boots
07 Iron Scaffolding
08 20 Scratchin Pencils
09 Scraping Frost Windshield
10 Wheezing Lungs
11 Small Scissors
12 Low Groan

• DIGIPACK EDITION

Time-traveling Sergio Armaroli takes advantage of this openness. He has previously worked with Downtown legend Elliott Sharp and Steve Piccolo of Lounge Lizards fame. This session also adds two giants of the UK free improvisation scene, bassist John Edwards and drummer Mark Sanders … Like Patchen’s script for “The Voice” in The City Wears a Slouch Hat, Piccolo’s utterances describe people, objects, places, and actions such as “iron scaffolding shaking in the wind,” “chewing on crackers,” and “scraping frosted windshield.” Piccolo’s verses which are the counterpart to Armaroli’s Figure(s), could just as easily have been uttered in Chicago 1942. Both cue the assembled musicians to illus trate the pages of this phantasmagorical graphic novel for the listener. - Mark Corroto

PERSONNEL:
Sergio Armaroli - (vibraphone)
Elliott Sharp - (guitar, soprano saxophone)
Steve Piccolo - (speech and electronic devices)
John Edwards - (double bass)
Mark Sanders - (drums)

Recorded at Blackstar Recording Studio, Milan, Italy, on September 15-16, 2023

TRACKS:
01 Intro
02 Pigs Grunting
03 The Train
04 Chewing On Crackers
05 BluBottle Fly
06 Rubber Boots
07 Iron Scaffolding
08 20 Scratchin Pencils
09 Scraping Frost Windshield
10 Wheezing Lungs
11 Small Scissors
12 Low Groan