Brandon Ross - Of Sight and Sound - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

So much in the improvisatory arts is determined by the choices of collaborators, environment, and performance goals. Guitarist, composer, and conceptualist Brandon Ross regularly creates situations with other musicians and artists to push their collective creativity to new destinations. The Phantom Station ensemble is a vehicle that Ross returns to with soundesign artist, Hardedge, to embark upon adventurous, uncharted musical journeys. The idea behind Phantom Station was to assemble an Inchindividual-directedInch ensemble that could engage in an open musical discourse and instantaneous music-making without the borders of genre or preconceived musical ideas. One of the results of one of these meetings was recorded at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, Connecticut and is presented as Off The End, a fascinating document of spontaneous creation with an incredible cast of musicians, including cornetist Graham Haynes, keyboardist David Virelles, and drummer JT Lewis.Ross began Phantom Station as a springboard for his creative pursuits with Hardedge, an electronic artist, whose singular soundesign work is employed to generate interactive sound worlds with textures and palettes conceived for the settings or ensembles. Hardedge's electronics thus maximize the sonic and textural possibilities without overextending the size of the ensemble. Additionally, Phantom Station became an open-door invitational sound InchcrucibleInch for a round robin of Ross's wide net of collaborators.  In late fall 2021, Ross presented two concerts of Phantom Station, one in New York at the Jazz Gallery and the other at Firehouse 12. The band had slightly different personnel for each show but with the same instrumentation, as Ross wanted to focus on the dynamics between his electric and acoustic guitars, Hardedge's soundesign, and drums along with cornet/electronics and keyboards. Haynes and Ross have known

Prior to releasing a string of influential and widely acclaimed solo records under his own name on labels such as Important and Hospital Productions, Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails) self-released two albums under the name Sonoio starting in 2010. Praised for their complex and rich pop sound, strong vocal delivery and thoughtful compositions with impeccable production values, Sonoio's InchRedInch and InchBlueInch made heavy use of Cortini's expert manipulation of the Buchla synthesizer and releasing the single InchEnoughInch. As activity with Nine Inch Nails, the demands of touring, and his other solo endeavors began to pick up, production on the third and final Sonoio installment was delayed. In 2014 however, after years of silence, Sonoio posted the single and video for the song InchThanks For CallingInch exclusively on Sonoio. Org and quickly reignited rumors and hope for the of the third album. Fine is the first Sonoio full length to be released on vinyl, with art direction and package design by Caspar Newbolt and photography by Matt Sundin. Personal, layered and complex, InchFineInch achieves greatness as both a singular example of deep and inspiring pop music, and as the final album - the closing chapter in the story of Sonoio.

An unreleased David Munyon album recorded in a Nashville Studio in 1994. It includes one never released composition and the original prototype of nine songs that would be later re-recorded for future albums. No less than a treasure trove displaying prime Munyon in all it's glory!