Dre Hocevar

Surface of Inscription (CF 442 CD)

Surface of Inscription Ver más grande

2016

Surface of Inscription

Dre Hocevar

Clean Feed

5609063004427

FEE 151474

CF 442 CD

JAZZ

1

Surface of Inscription

Más detalles

CD 9,98 €

DIGIPACK EDITION

There is a particular, stately calmness about this album as if it’s out-worldly sonics have been chiseled off some strange marble. From the abrasive brass opener onward, up to that final anguished scream, a sense of meticulously sculpted logic envelops it’s razor-sharp, elegantly reserved pieces. Wholly born of spontaneous improvisation, it is equally their subjection to the subtle sets of constraints and restrictions that make up for their final beauty. The master craftsman behind this elevating enterprise is Dré Hocevar, a drummer of considerable conceptual forcefulness and vision. Following his three previous outings on Clean Feed, with Surface of Inscription he may just have delivered his most accomplished work yet, and with his very distinct artistic creed of invoking new musical spaces – claiming a singular, yet untapped character – this is rather telling. In this particular endeavor he is joined by the vocalist Charmaine Lee, the pianist Elias Stemeseder, the brass player Weston Olencki and the reeds operator Michael Foster, with Bernardo Barros seamlessly weaving in his highly articulate electronica. The performers utilized a number of distinct compositional procedures in order for them to redesign their habitually used frames of interaction, with each of them playing the final take against the backdrop of a previously documented construction. What came out of such a methodical set-up is a kind of a forma viva, an open-air park of solidified sound. The music within is inscribed in a code you may not immediately recognize, yet it is certainly one you can’t help but marvel.

PERSONNEL:

ELIAS STEMESEDER, piano
CHARMAINE LEE, vocals
DRÉ HOCEVAR, drums
BERNARDO BARROS, electronics
WESTON OLENCKI, brass
MICHAEL FOSTER, reeds

Recorded at Systems Two Studios, New York, November 11 and 12, 2016.

TRACKS:

01. Where Improvisation Comes From
02. Target Domain of Infinity, Pt 1
03. Sub-phenomenon of Utterance
04. Frame Semantics
05. Surface of Inscription
06. Target Domain of Infinity, Pt 2
07. X Nets, Arrays, Containers
08. Ideas Are Physical _ Conceptual Bindings
09. Logic Is A Consequence
10. Just Below the Sonic Level of Sense Making
11. Dissecting the Paraconcept
12. Feminized.Science.Deniers
13. Processing Schemas
14. Disenfranchised Language of Muted Rage
15. Primary Metaphors