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Far Flung

by Alister Spence Trio

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1.
Tumbler 02:46
2.
Flight Plan 01:52
3.
(With) Thanks 01:31
4.
Felt 08:55
5.
Drawing Breath 04:55
6.
Sleep Under Water 06:52
7.
Seventh Song 05:49
8.
Wraith 01:54
9.
Mullet Run 08:29
10.
Arc 04:03
11.
Life-Wish 03:15
12.
Lucid 02:55
13.
Threading The Maze 10:05
14.
Dashboard 02:56
15.
Circumnavigate 07:07
16.
(And) Happiness 01:54
17.
Mt Solitary 04:18
18.
Brave Ghost 07:23
19.
Lux 02:27

about

Far Flung
Alister Spence Trio

Available on VINYL and CD
Alister Spence Music ASM001(Vinyl) /Rufus Records RF105 (CD)

The WIRE 2013 Rewind - Critics' reflections by Andy Hamilton, Album of the year.
4 Star Review – Jazz Journal 2013
Listed in Critics Poll for 2013, Jazz Journal Jan 2014

'Art that allows us to be other than we are, even for a moment, is invaluable…this trio has learnt to defy gravity: to free music of time and defined space…Mesmerising.'
Sydney Morning Herald

'Two discs of deceptively un-emphatic improvisation with all three players worrying away quietly at small areas of musical detail, but always with a larger structure in view, like craftsmen on a cathedral project. Spence’s reputation was made with Clarion Fracture Zone but now ranges internationally on its own account, and high time, too. This is a terrific record.' Brian Morton, Jazz Journal

'Spence isn’t capable of writing an uninteresting composition…" International Piano

Alister Spence: piano/trio samples/music box
Lloyd Swanton: double bass
Toby Hall: drums/glockenspiel

Far Flung is the fifth release from the Alister Spence Trio and their first double CD.
This release is a further landmark from a unique and totally captivating group. The 19 tracks are an interweaving of jazz compositions, open improvisations, and re-composed post-production pieces.

As with fit (2009) and Mercury (2007), Far Flung continues Alister’s exploration of the possibilities within jazz music, improvisation and sound as music. This enduring interest in sound and abstraction within jazz was first documented on Clarion Fracture Zone’s ARIA award winning album Blue Shift (1990). The melody on La Mar Esta Enferma, is provided by triggering a tuned sample of a wok (Chinese cooking pan).

In the Alister Spence Trio all the sounds used live and on recordings are those of the trio: offering different perspectives of the instruments and the music.
In live performance, triggering pre-recorded samples on a small midi controller creates the extra layers that are heard on the albums.

With a performing history spanning more than 15 years Alister, Lloyd and Toby have developed an extraordinary level of synergy in their collaborations.
Far Flung provides further testament to this, offering the listener a unified and deeply immersive experience in a mesmerising, sometimes high energy, and often beautiful, world of sound.

Track Synopsis
• Tracks 4, 6, 7, 9 (Disc 1), and 3, 5, 8 (Disc 2), are compositions. 4, 6, 9 (Disc 1) and 3, 8 (Disc 2) are by Spence, and 7 (1), and 5 (2) are transcriptions by Spence of improvised co-compositions played by the trio at a gig in 2011.
All have been in the live repertoire for at least a year. All have stories attached: ‘Sleep Underwater’ was written after a night in Rajasthan sleeping under a swimming pool, ‘Mullet Run’ receives its name from a camping/surfing trip in northern New South Wales at the time of the annual mullet (fish) migration.
Additional layers of piano, glockenspiel and music box (and some effects) have been added by Spence in post-production on Tk 6, 7 (Disc 1) and 3, 5 (Disc 2).
• Tracks 2, 3, 5 (Disc 1) and 2, 4, 6 (Disc 2) are improvised playing instruments conventionally and/or in a prepared manner.
• Tracks 1, 8,10 (Disc 1) and 1, 7, 9 (Disc 2) are re-compositions, assembled in post-production (sometimes w/fx) by Spence from various segments of the Megaphon Studio recording session. Additional overdubs recorded by Spence on piano and glockenspiel.

credits

released October 19, 2012

Recorded by Tim Whitten at Megaphon Studios, Sydney 14-16 June 2012
Mixed by Tim Whitten at Studios 301, Sydney 24-26 August 2012
Mastered by Paul Bryant at Chapel of Sound 9 September 2012

Trio samples / recomposition / editing Alister Spence:
DISC ONE 1, 6, 7, 8,10 DISC TWO 1, 3, 5, 7, 9

Cover illustration and design Cheryl Orsini
Fish photo Alexandra Spence
Megaphon photo Alister Spence
Producer Alister Spence
Executive Producer Tim Dunn

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Alister Spence Sydney, Australia

Pianist, improviser and composer, Alister Spence has established a reputation as a creative force in jazz and improvised music in Australia and beyond. He has performed with and composed for some of the world's finest musicians.
Projects include:
Alister Spence Trio; Asteroid Ekosystem; Kira Kira with Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura;
Sensaround;
Spence/MacDonald duo; Spence/Williamson/Cantillo. ... more

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