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Blacksberg, Dan
The PsychicBody Sound System

Blacksberg, Dan: The PsychicBody Sound System (Relative Pitch)

"Dan Blacksberg's Psychic/Body Sound System takes a gutsy leap into a set of otherworldly sub-bass drones, fiery free jazz declamations, and melancholic sonic stories. This fully improvised album, recorded live with no effects or overdu...
 

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Dan Blacksberg-trombone, prepared trombone, resonating piano


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UPC: 5904224872175

Label: Relative Pitch
Catalog ID: RPRSS021
Squidco Product Code: 35515

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Tonal Park, in Washington, D.C, on December 12th, 13th and 14th, 2022, by Don Godwin.

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"Dan Blacksberg's Psychic/Body Sound System takes a gutsy leap into a set of otherworldly sub-bass drones, fiery free jazz declamations, and melancholic sonic stories. This fully improvised album, recorded live with no effects or overdubs shows Blacksberg wielding his trombone like a seer across varied sonic environments, real and imagined. Woven together by poetic fictionalizations by Alex Smith and stunning artwork by James Dillenbeck, Psychic/Body Sound System is a trombone-driven reverie for the heart and the imagination."-Relative Pitch


Artist Biographies

"Dan Blacksberg is a leading voice in Philadelphia's music community and a living master of klezmer trombone. Through performance, composition, and improvisation, he creates new territories to explore inside and across genres, forging new pathways between tradition and innovation. As a teacher and community music leader, he builds up all generations of musicians to become empowered and joyous rabble-rousers.

Dan is dedicated to creating great music with people from all levels and backgrounds. This includes his work at Kol Tzedek Synagogue, where he leads the Simcha Band with musicians from 8 to 80 years old in ecstatic performances, communitarian celebrations. His 4-day, Creative Music concert event Encounters @ The Mothership (2019) joined newer voices with established masters like Susan Alcorn and Marshall Allen in intimate groups and overwhelming spectacles.

He's been honored as an Artist in Residence at the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts (2019) for which he composed the jazz-klezmer suite Name of the Sea, and as a Pew Fellow in the Arts (2012). He received critical acclaim for his jazz trio albums Bit Heads (NoBusiness Records, 2008), Perilous Architecture (2013), and groundbreaking Hasidic Doom Metal band Deveykus (Tzadik Records, 2013). In 2017 he released Radiant Others, the first klezmer album to feature the trombone as the lead instrument.

He has played with artists Anthony Braxton, George Lewis, Joe Maneri, and Joe Morris and with rock bands The Body and Liturgy. In Yiddish Music he has worked with Frank London, Adrienne Cooper, Elaine Hoffman Watts, Daniel Kahn, Theodore Bikel, and was a founding member of Alan Bern's klezmer/lautari supergroup, The Other Europeans. He currently records and tours with Michael Winograd and the Honorable Mentshn.

As a teacher and culture bearer of klezmer trombone, Dan has been recognized as a Master Artist by the Canada Arts Council (2022). He has been on faculty at Temple University, Klezkanada, KlezKamp, and was an organizer of Yiddish New York. His students in trombone and improvisation can be found in leading roles across Philadelphia's jazz, hip-hop, world music, and experimental music scenes."

-Dan Blacksberg Website (https://www.danblacksberg.com/bio)
11/20/2024

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Track Listing:



1. We Walk Through The Petrified Gate 01:40

2. Tale Of A Survival 05:18

3. Crags Of Resounding Whispers 04:07

4. Observing The Endless Screamer 09:18

5. Feeding The Great Babbler 01:01

6. Softgrind Lament 03:28

7. Liquified Tides Of Thought 01:37

8. Infinitely Shattering Crystal Wishes 06:25

9. Gliding Over The Dimensional Glacier 01:21

10. Tale Of Refusing Futility 03:43

11. We Exhale The Gate Closed 02:25

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