Reggie Workman

DIGIPACK EDITION

This double recording offers two different experiences of the collective trio Brew with Miya Masaoka, Gerry Hemingway and Reggie Workman. These are two separate recording sessions, twenty years apart from each other, “Heat" from 1999, and "Between Reflections" from 2019.

For listeners familiar with the music that Hemingway, Masaoka, and Workman have each recorded with other ensembles (BassDrumBone, MZM, or Trio 3, for instance), the interplay of Brew is unexpected and engrossing. At its core, Brew might be called an enterprise in the dynamics of mutual attunement: an astounding demonstration of sustained sensitivity to what percolates at the outer reaches of auditory perception as improvising musicians interact in real time. Moment by moment, their exchange constructs what Hemingway calls a “sanctuary” of sound, a “chance to be lured into a freedom in which our regulated lives are suspended” in a way that leaves us with a keener capacity for perception.

PERSONNEL:

• Miya Masaoka - (koto, monochord, electronics, percussion)
• Reggie Workman - (bass, percussion)
• Gerry Hemingway - (drums, voice, vibraphone, electronics)

CD ONE: Recorded November 2, 2019 Acoustic Recordings, Brooklyn, NY

CD TWO: Recorded between 1998-99

TRACKS:

• CD ONE
• Between Reflections

• 01) Between Reflections
• 02) Cutting by the Pound
• 03) Morning
• 04) Cricket's Paradise
• 05) One for Walt Dickerson
• 06) Sun Shadows
• 07) Tug
• 08) Evening
• 09) From Above and Below
• 10) Dreaming of Peace

• CD TWO
• Heat

• 01) Keffi’s Journey
• 02) History
• 03) Glyph in Rainfall
• 04) Serenade (MM)
• 05) Heat
• 06) Message from Outside
• 07) Whirling
• 08) Recall (RW)