1.9.05
Brincar às casinhas
«In the winter of 2002 Nate McBride and I started a weekly jazz and improvised music series at the Abbey Lounge in Cambridge, Mass., which he named "mim" (for modern improvised music). Curt Newton, with whom we both had a longstanding musical relationship, joined us in forming the mi3 trio, the house band for that series. (The mim series ran weekly until that summer at the Abbey. In the fall of 2002, it relocated to the 'Artists At Large' gallery in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston, where Nate continued to run it until he left for Chicago in the summer of 2004.
We chose to use the electric piano partly out of necessity, since the Abbey had no piano, and partly out of curiosity for the effect it would have on our music. We processed the Fender Rhodes sound using some pedals that Nate lent me; a vintage Mutron, a Wah pedal, and a distortion pedal. It was very exciting for me to work with the long sustain, volume and timbral variety the Rhodes could offer when combined with these pedals. This was an opportunity to explore something different, and the discoveries in sound and texture energized us all to try new musical ideas.
In the following season we continued playing from time to time at the mim's new location, and we also did a two-month weekly run there as part of the 'mim residency' series, performing with this electric trio through the spring of 2004.
Parts of this CD were recorded live both at the Abbey Lounge and at the 'Artists At Large' gallery. Nate contributed some of the more intriguing repertoire choices on this CD, especially the Hasaan and Dolphy selections, to which we added compositions by Thelonious Monk and some originals». - Pandelis Karayorgis
posted by eduardo chagas
@ 1.9.05 
No já vasto colar da Clean Feed, destaca-se essa pérola de bom gosto que é o novo disco de Pandelis Karayorgis, We Will Make a Home for You. Em trio com o contrabaixista Nate McBride e o baterista Curt Newton (esses mesmos, os do Tripleplay de Ken Vandermark), Karayorgis, um valor em ascensão, com amplas perspectivas de desenvolvimento de carreira, surpreende o ouvinte com um trio, não de piano tout court, mas de Fender Rhodes, preparado com a adição de pedais de guitarra. Interessante, ham?! Muito. E o resultado também, adianto já. Em 9 temas, quatro s
ão de Thelonious Monk (Ugly Beauty, Shuffle Boil, Monk's Point, We See), um de Hasaan Ibn Ali, pianista e compositor de disco único, com Max Roach e Art Davis (3/4 vs. 6/8 4/4 Time) e três originais do pianista Pandelis (Three Plus Three, Centennial e Disambiguation). E há Gazzelloni, de Dolphy, neste belo e refrescante disco de música moderna improvisada. Ou de jazz, se assim der mais jeito. É agarrá-lo antes que se esgote! MI3 é uma especialidade... .
ão de Thelonious Monk (Ugly Beauty, Shuffle Boil, Monk's Point, We See), um de Hasaan Ibn Ali, pianista e compositor de disco único, com Max Roach e Art Davis (3/4 vs. 6/8 4/4 Time) e três originais do pianista Pandelis (Three Plus Three, Centennial e Disambiguation). E há Gazzelloni, de Dolphy, neste belo e refrescante disco de música moderna improvisada. Ou de jazz, se assim der mais jeito. É agarrá-lo antes que se esgote! MI3 é uma especialidade... .«In the winter of 2002 Nate McBride and I started a weekly jazz and improvised music series at the Abbey Lounge in Cambridge, Mass., which he named "mim" (for modern improvised music). Curt Newton, with whom we both had a longstanding musical relationship, joined us in forming the mi3 trio, the house band for that series. (The mim series ran weekly until that summer at the Abbey. In the fall of 2002, it relocated to the 'Artists At Large' gallery in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston, where Nate continued to run it until he left for Chicago in the summer of 2004.
We chose to use the electric piano partly out of necessity, since the Abbey had no piano, and partly out of curiosity for the effect it would have on our music. We processed the Fender Rhodes sound using some pedals that Nate lent me; a vintage Mutron, a Wah pedal, and a distortion pedal. It was very exciting for me to work with the long sustain, volume and timbral variety the Rhodes could offer when combined with these pedals. This was an opportunity to explore something different, and the discoveries in sound and texture energized us all to try new musical ideas.
In the following season we continued playing from time to time at the mim's new location, and we also did a two-month weekly run there as part of the 'mim residency' series, performing with this electric trio through the spring of 2004.
Parts of this CD were recorded live both at the Abbey Lounge and at the 'Artists At Large' gallery. Nate contributed some of the more intriguing repertoire choices on this CD, especially the Hasaan and Dolphy selections, to which we added compositions by Thelonious Monk and some originals». - Pandelis Karayorgis
