Mercury

• DIGIPACK EDITION

Quicksilver apothecaries of pitch, timbre and time, the formidable Montreal-based pairing of clarinettist Lori Freedman and bassist Nicolas Caloia, reconvene their long-term Mercury connection for a fittingly volatile and strange, dangerous, and often beautiful, dose of deeply conceptual body music.

Skin is the culmination of a more than 20-year relationship of intense melodic, harmonic and rhythmic exploration, which has seen Freedman and Caloia interrogate the outer perimeters of spontaneous creation and avant-garde composition, together under the Mercury rubric or individually alongside such stellar names as Roscoe Mitchell, Marshall Allen, Steve Lacy, Matana Roberts, Toshimaru Nakamura and Joe McPhee.

PERSONNEL:

• Nicolas Caloia - (double bass)
• Lori Freedman - (b-flat and bass clarinet)

TRACKS:

• 01 Eyeball - Eyelid
• 02 Hip - Thigh - Knee - Shin - Ankle
• 03 Skin
• 04 Teeth - Tongue - Throat - Lip
• 05 Ass - Brain
• 06 Head - Shoulder - Chest
• 07 Heel - Toe
• 08 The Heart